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DOTS INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2026

DOTS International Documentary Film Festival 2026

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‎Athens welcomes the DOTS International Documentary Film Festival for the second consecutive year, a festival dedicated to short documentary films from Greece and around the world.

The second edition of the DOTS Festival will take place from Friday, October 2 to Sunday, October 4, 2026, inviting audiences to discover different perspectives, contemporary narratives, and unique stories from every corner of the world.

As part of the festival, a total of 37 short documentary films will be screened, including 19 Greek and 18 international productions, presenting a broad range of themes and cinematic approaches.

Alongside the screenings, the programme will feature Q&A sessions with the filmmakers attending the festival, offering audiences the opportunity to meet the people behind the films and engage with them in discussions about the creative process, the ideas, and the stories behind each work.

The DOTS Festival will also host Masterclasses led by film professionals, creating a space for the exchange of knowledge and experience among filmmakers, industry professionals, and documentary enthusiasts.

As part of the festival, the Votanikon Gin Audience Award will be presented, accompanied by a €500 cash prize. The award gives audiences the opportunity to choose the film that stood out to them the most from the festival programme.

The DOTS International Documentary Film Festival returns to Athens, therefore, for a three-day celebration dedicated to short documentaries, contemporary stories, and the encounter between filmmakers and audiences.

Screenings’ Schedule

Masterclasses

a) October 3, 2026
Eva Stefani / Director
“Documentary Does Not Describe. It Reveals.”

Documentary belongs to the world of poetry. At its best, it can reveal the visible without describing it. Through examples from films, we will explore the differences between documentary filmmaking that focuses on covering an event and documentary filmmaking that interprets and reconstructs reality through the filmmaker’s own perspective.

b) October 4, 2026
Lukas Palaiokrassas / Director & Carlos Muñoz / Director of Photography
“Seeing Differently: The Cinematic Language of Bugboy”

In this talk, the director and director of photography will jointly share the creative process and filming experience behind a three-year observational documentary.

The film follows an introverted teenager who forms a deep bond with a cricket. Through scenes and examples from the filming process, they will discuss their cinematic approach, the relationship of trust they built with the protagonists, their equipment choices, as well as the challenges that arise when documenting private life through observation.

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Contact

[email protected]
dotsfestival.com
@dots.festival

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Duration: 13:00–23:00, with breaks

SEBASTIAN

SEBASTIAN
Nova Melancholia

SEBASTIAN returns for two unique nights in Athens before being presented at the Nicosia International Festival 2026. The performance has been honored by the Theatre and Performing Arts Critics Association with the Performing Arts Award. A performance with a “camp” sensibility, a kaleidoscope of references around the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, an avatar of desires and moods that plays with death and exorcises the darkness of our days.

Sebastian is a multiprismatic archetype, a kaleidoscope, an avatar of moods and desires. Delving into the tradition of Saint Sebastians’ martyrdom, as recast through its dense representation in Western art from early Renaissance onwards, we focus on concepts / senses / symbols resonating with our own sensibilities and imagination. The performance is the grand sum of its cultural references. We read poems, recreate paintings, mince, pose, sing, dance, and draw inspiration from an eccentric cinematic tradition of experimentation. We are interested in exploring those affective and bodily practices which will enable us to relate to a symbol like Sebastian in the present.

Saint Sebastian is associated with youth, beauty, sports, archery, physical pain, salacity, homoeroticism and martyrdom. Already since medieval times, there is a strong connotation linking him to the Plague, Black Death. We tie together the tradition of homoeroticism as expressed through the figure of Sebastian and the AIDS disease, which, in the 80s and 90s, came to be regarded as a kind of ‘homosexual plague’. Just like people did in early European modernity, we too resort to Saint Sebastian, assigning him with an apotropaic function to help us ward off evil. The show is dedicated to those who dare cross over from vision to lived experience, from representation to presence, thus taking the risk of being consumed by the blazes of existence.

The performance is dedicated to HIV-positive activist Zack/Zackie who was brutally murdered in Athens in September 2018, and experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger who died in May 2023.

“The language of theatre is not ‘natural’. We have to create it over and over again (says Roland Barthes). And we are indeed so rarely given the opportunity to watch a group of people construct their own language in front of us! Piece by piece, this precious pastiche called SEBASTIAN is moulded in Nova Melancholia’s performance.”

Louiza Arkoumanea (theater critic)

“SEBASTIAN is the most beautiful – so to speak – and thoughtful and elaborate performance I have seen in recent years, with a language that connects references and personal emotions and metaphors from art and experiences without pretension, in a way that is honest and effortless and ultimately redemptive.”

Argyro Bozoni (art journalist)

“For the first time, a younger generation of creators is approaching AIDS primarily as a cultural legacy, as an archive of images, losses, and forms of resistance that continues to organize collective queer memory.”

George Sampatakakis (prof. University of Patras)

http://www.novamelancholia.gr/en

Duration: 90 minutes, no intermission
Age recommendation: 16+

KOSHEEN [UK] LIVE

KOSHEEN [UK] live!

“HIDE U” 25th anniversary – tour 2026
special Guest: DIMITRIS KORGIALAS‎

Kosheen celebrate 25 years since the release of their iconic Resist, the album that featured the beloved “Hide U” — a track that wrote its own unique story in Greece and continues to make its way to the top of the charts and Greek Spotify playlists to this day, with every new rework or remix!

Kosheen, one of the UK’s booming live electronic music showstoppers, broke into prominence with their hit ‘Hide U‘ off their debut album in 2001, the platinum selling ‘Resist’, followed by era-defining anthems ‘Catch‘, ‘Hungry‘ and ‘All In My Head‘. With two UK Top Ten albums, multiple awards, and five studio releases, their distinctive fusion of drum’n’bass, breakbeat and emotionally charged songwriting – led by singer and songwriter Sian Evans – cemented their reputation as one of the most iconic live acts of their era. After a hiatus in the mid-2010s, Kosheen roared back in 2019 with a reformed line-up, headlining countless UK and European festivals and delivering blistering, passionate shows that reignited their global fanbase. The ‘Resist 20th Anniversary Tour’ in 2021 marked a triumphant return across the UK and Europe, followed by a worldwide tour in 2023 celebrating 25 years of Kosheen’s music, alongside exclusive orchestral performances in the UK. In 2025, Kosheen launched a bold new run of reworks, reimagining ‘Hide U’ and ‘Catch’ through contemporary remixes and fresh vocals.

With new anthemic reworks, new material on the horizon and an unstoppable international touring schedule, Kosheen continue to command stages worldwide and thrill audiences across the globe – proving their legacy is not only alive but stronger than ever.

Doors open at 20:00.

Duration: 3 hours

HIPHOP4HOPE ATHENS WEEKENDER

HipHop4Hope Athens Weekender
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HipHop4Hope invites you to experience authentic HipHop street dance culture. As a socio-cultural initiative empowering displaced youth through HipHop culture since 2020 – we are inviting for performances, a street dance battle and a screening of the HipHop4Hope project.

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Everyone is welcome to celebrate unity in diversity.

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Duration: 15:00 — 24:00

AGORAFOVIKO 2026

Agorafoviko Festival 2026

Four years is a long time.

Wear and decay will come eventually. Fortunately, however, exactly 45 years ago, Lena Platonos and the Sabotage crew had the reassuring wisdom to place “Koperti” just before the end of Side A of the vinyl — rather than at the very end of the record.

In its fourth year, the Agoraphobic Festival will not stray far from the three editions that preceded it. It will take place on Friday, September 18 and Saturday, September 19 at PLYFA, with VASSIŁINA curating the programme across its three stages.

With the festival’s founding principles remaining firmly intact, AFF26 will celebrate the return of Lena Platonos and Pan Pan, drawing a MIDI cable from the CS-60 in the apartment on Leoforos Alexandras to the microKORG of another apartment in Polygono. It will bring together In Trance 95, pioneers of Athenian minimal synth since 1988, the darkwave of Selofan and the polyphonic, electrified songwriting of Usurum with the lighter R&B pop of Aggelina(ς) on the other side of the spectrum.

It will move from Evita Manji’s meticulous sound design to Babynymph’s deconstructed club aesthetic, and from Tso’s queer pop to the avant-pop of Tsugranes and the “Greek trauma” that Fruit Gillette heals with dirty Eurodance. The queer rap of Dolly Vara, alongside Sara ATH, will meet Pandora’s emerging provocation, representing the future of sound.

Finnish-born, Athens-based Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Bhukhurah will reflect the heavy, dark psychedelic drive of Psychedelic Trips to Death, while Yorgas Helmet, carrying with him the historic synth-punk legacy of ΟΔΟΣ 55, will close the first day with drones and ritual.

The Agoraphobic Festival’s tradition of artists making return appearances continues this year with Zebra Tracks, whose indie/post-punk will meet Lewnidas’ distinctive electronic pop in a reunion rooted in the heart of the 2000s. Meanwhile, the dark crooner Johnny Labelle and the dream pop of Blue Morphee will find common ground with Mia Maria’s emotionally charged narratives. Finally, just before its first appearance, Ενδοεπικοινωνία is impossible to describe without the words Outsiders, Daniel Johnston and Κορεσμένοι Υδρογονάνθρακες.

The festival will be brought to a close by curator VASSIŁINA, accompanied by many beloved figures from her journey through avant-garde music.

The AFF26 line-up:

Lena Platonos / Pan Pan / Usurum / Selofan / In Trance 95 / Evita Manji / Aggelina / Dolly Vara x Sara ATH / Jaakko Eino Kalevi / Babynymph / Psychedelic Trips to Death / Yorgas Helmet / Zebra Tracks / Fruit Gillette / Tsugranes / Tso / Bhukhurah / Pandora / Ενδοεπικοινωνία / Lewnidas / Johnny Labelle / Blue Morphee / Mia Maria / Vassilina & friends

Full Programme

18/9/26 | First Agoraphobic Day

Lena Platonos / Selofan / In Trance 95 / Evita Manji / Babynymph / Psychedelic Trips to Death / Yorgas Helmet / Fruit Gillette / Tso / Ενδοεπικοινωνία / Johnny Labelle / Blue Morphee

19/9/26 | Second Agoraphobic Day

Pan Pan / Usurum / Aggelina / Dolly Vara x Sara ATH / Jaakko Eino Kalevi / Zebra Tracks / Tsugranes / Tso / Bhukhurah / Pandora / Lewnidas / Mia Maria / Vassilina & friends

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Duration: 5 hours

NOTE
Admission to Buildings 7A and 7C will be on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability at the time of arrival.

MIRROŘING

MIRROŘING
Iro Konti / ΜnIM Dance Co.

The performance Mirrořing seeks to light up that moment when everything around us slows down and silence takes over – a moment where we can tune in to our deepest needs.

Two performers move in parallel paths through space and time. They shift from the public sphere and the arena of everyday life into their private sphere, where they allow their vulnerable sides – those they constantly try to hide – to flourish and be revealed . They swift between being exposed and be in their own private area, between the image they construct in order to survive and the real one they inevitably face looking in the mirror.

An ode for what is lost when the rhythms of daily life become relentless and unbearable, for the confrontation with social expectations and demands — for two people persistently seeking a new balance, even when everything around them feels so difficult.

Following the solo Modulus of Resilience, choreographer Iro Konti invites us to envision life beyond the chaos of the modern age.

Duration: 45 minutes, no intermission
Recommended age: 15+ years old

WE’LL MEET AGAIN

WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Gabriela Kokkini

In a space immersed in complete darkness, two beams of light carve paths through the void.
Our bodies are stripped of every external reference, leaving only movement, breath, and our need for orientation.

WE’LL MEET AGAIN is a journey into togetherness as a singular act that emerges from the obscurity of today’s world.

Behind gestures that are both tender and abrupt, through fleeting encounters and vast distances, there remains an enduring longing to come together.

When the two beams of light finally meet, they create a shared space of understanding, where darkness is no longer perceived as absence but as a site of discovery: a living, ever-changing world in which vulnerability becomes light, and darkness the womb from which it is born.

Duration: 40 minutes (no intermission)

LOVE ME

Love me
Andi Xhuma & Eva Georgitsopoulou

Trying to resist presenting (yet) another duet about the phenomenon of love—opting instead for either its glorification or its demystification—the following need for investigation arises: why does this entire intermediate zone of routine and “normality” in a relationship go unnoticed? Why do most people focus on the magic of the first encounter or the final disillusionment, without paying attention to what this shared rhythm actually is between two people who walk together for a period of their lives?

Therefore, rather than being a duet about the psychological fluctuations of those infatuated by love, “Love Me” attempts to approach this rhythmology of togetherness. Togetherness, as a shared rhythm and a shared stride, but not always shared paths. On the other hand, this might be exactly what is sought after: within the shared rhythm we create with the other person, the shared rhythm that we both manage to sustain, the focus shifts from ourselves to a third entity. The two bodies now define a space in which intimacy and letting go are not only physical actions but also psychological trials.

The proposed movement study on love is a choreographed condition in which the steps are always steps in dialogue with someone else—continuous spins, momentary coincidences and sudden stops, ball changes and shifts in direction on the and 8. Because “Love Me” also reminds us of that intermediate space of rehearsal before the performance, when two bodies labor to achieve something together. This touches upon something about love, or rather its rhythmology, but paradoxically, the audience always witnesses the “end of this relationship”; it catches us at the closing of the cycle, and thus always sees two bodies narrating their separation.

Love Me is produced under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

With the kind support of Flux Laboratory Athens.

Duration: 45 minutes (no intermission)

LAB Athens in Concert | Vocals dpt.

LAB Athens in Concert | Vocals dpt.

The much-anticipated Vocal Students’ Live Concert returns to Plyfa for its 5th year!

Joining our vocal students on stage will be three outstanding bands, formed by students of the Lab Athens Professional Music Program.

1Year ΤΕNSILE Gathering

1 Year, 5 Seminar Cycles, TouchDesigner, DJing, Artworks & Lighting Design

We close the year with a showcase featuring the works created throughout the year, while two new workshops will also take place in the venue.

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16:00-17:30 Introduction to Max MSP: Patching Sound and Data
17:30-19:00 The Age of Slop: A workshop on demystifying AI in artistic production

19:30-21:00 FLOKOSH
21:00-22:30 APU NANU

22:30-00:00 CHERRY DISTRESS
&& TENSILE ART AND INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS SHOWCASE

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PRESALE VIA REVOLUT: https://revolut.me/panoulis

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