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The 19th London Greek Film Festival 2025 offered the Awards from the film and screenplay competition, in an emotionally charged ceremony with lots of smiles and enthusiasm, within the compound of the Greek Embassy in London last Thursday the 26 June 2026.
The festival, which is approaching two decades of continuous presence in British capital, moving most in hybrid form, and plans to takes place only in its competitive part, with an online presence and with parallel actions and with special only views when it is feasible, against the duration of time.
The London Greek Film Festival began in 2008 and has competitive character. Accepts and presents modern movies and scripts by Greek directors, producers, writers and artists from all over the world – including the Greeks of the Diaspora and the Greek Cypriots, regardless topic.
Also from foreigners directors, producers, writers and artists from all over the world, as long as the work related to them with in some way with Greece or the Cyprus.
The Greek Film Festival London 2025 and the award ceremony took place with the support of the Greek Embassy in London.
The ceremony Awards of this Festival included a videotaped greeting message by the Secretary General of Hellenes Abroad and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry Foreign Affairs Mrs. Maira Myrogianni.
H.E the Greek Ambassador Mr. Yannis Tsaousis delivered a special greeting as well as the Festival’s artistic director Christos Prosilis.
Also during the ceremony videos were sawn regarding the actions in the field of film productions of the Greek Center for Cinema, Audiovisual Media and Creativity (EKKOMED)-Creative Greece.
The awards ceremony was attended , among others, by film crews, directors, producers, screenwriters, actors, representatives of Greek cultural organizations and Greek artists active in the United Kingdom, Greek correspondents accredited in the UK and journalists from Greek media outlets.
The London Greek Film Festival has had from the very beginning as aims to be the international meeting point for Greek films from all over the world and is competitive in nature .
The Festival promotes contemporary Greek cinema internationally and, more broadly, Greek culture in all its manifestations, cinematography production in Greece and Cyprus, the positive image of Greece and Cyprus in the abroad, new technologies as well as academic and artistic research and innovation to the cinema, the theater and the arts.
Film categories accepted: feature-length fiction, short fiction, documentary, video art, experimental film, musical video, animation.
Categories Accepting script: Fiction big length, short fiction length.
The Festival Hellenic Cinema of London offers in Film and Screenplay Competition Awards : Acting Code Awards (modern and innovative creation) Cosmocinema Awards (classical filmmaking) and Odysseus Awards (inner search and personal creation).
From 2022, the London Greek Film Festival is supported and also under the umbrella and auspices of the newly founded International Festival Cinema Epidaurus in the Greece nw in its fourth year.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Greek Film Festival of London, is the film and theatre director, visual artist and author Christos Prosilis.
AWARDS 2025
Best Fiction Feature Film – Acting Code Awards
The Aegean. Dir. by Jacob Richardson. Australia, Greece. 2024.
Honorable Mention for Fiction Feature Film – Cosmocinema Awards
ReUniverse. Dir. by Thodoris Vournas. Greece. 2024.
Honorable Mention for Fiction Feature Film – Odysseus Awards
Five Shillings Naylon. Dir. by Christos Siopahas. Cyprus. 2022.
Best Documentary – Acting Code Awards
A Clown Girl. Dir. by Sokratis (Socrates) Alafouzos. Greece, USA. 2025.
Best Documentary – Cosmocinema Awards
The Return That Never Was. Cyprus 1974-2024. Dir. by Athanasios Gioumpasis. Cyprus, Greece. 2025.
Honorable Mention for Documentary – Acting Code Awards
Takis. Dir. by Michael Roubis, Nikolas Pottakis. Greece. 2025.
Best Short Fiction Film – Acting Code Awards
Give me 5 minutes. Dir. by Marthilia Svarna. Greece. 2025.
Best Short Fiction Film – Cosmocinema Awards
She. Dir. by Stella Michael. UK. 2025.
Best Short Fiction Film – Odysseus Awards
Alexia. Dir. by Frank Manos Most. USA. 2025.
Honorable Mention for Short Fiction Film – Cosmocinema Awards
Loose Strands. Dir. by Panayiota Panteli. UK. 2024.
Honorable Mention for Short Fiction Film – Acting Code Awards
A day through my eyes. Dir. by Charalampos Kontopanagos. Greece. 2025.
Honorable Mention for Short Fiction Film – Odysseus Awards
i, BEAST. Dir. by Despoina Sotiropoulou. Greece. 2024.
Best Animation – Cosmocinema Awards
Open Wings. Dir. by Taxiarchis Deligiannis, Vasilis Tsiouvaras. Greece. 2024.
Best Video Art – Acting Code Awards
Camael & Chamuel. Dir. by Gm Touliatou. Greece. 2025.
Best Music Video – Cosmocinema Awards
IDE8L. Dir. by Aristarchos Papadaniel. Greece. 2024.
Best Experimental Film – Acting Code Awards
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Occupation Diary. Dir. by Jeffrey Skoller. Greece, USA. 2025.
Best Fiction Feature Screenplay – Cosmocinema Awards
Pera River or Euphoria Resort. Written by Alexandra Belegrati and Christos Demertzoglou. Greece.
Best Fiction Feature Screenplay – Acting Code Awards
Dimitris’ Garden. Written by Stephen Mellor. UK.
Honorable Mention for Fiction Feature Screenplay – Acting Code Awards
Without Rights. Written by Marouso Psarrou. Greece.
Best Short Fiction Screenplay – Acting Code Awards
Uprooted. Written by Kalliopi Fouseki. Greece, UK.
Best Short Fiction Screenplay – Cosmocinema Awards
Wings of Vigilance. Written by Chara Kourlessi. Greece.
Honorable Mention for Short Fiction Screenplay – Acting Code Awards
Elpida. Written by Melpomene Sfakianaki. Greece.
Honorable Mention for Short Fiction Screenplay – Cosmocinema Awards
Sweet Nectar of the Gods. Written by Ian J. Courter.——————————————- FINALISTS (list with no specific order) Fiction Feature Films
Bad Cop. Dir. by Sylvain Linder. Greece. 2025.
Rosemary. Dir. by Alexandros Marakis – Bourkas. Greece. 2025.
The Moustakas Sisters Mystery. Dir. by Niall Johnson. Cyprus, UK. 2025.
Documentaries
Two Homelands. Dir. by Kay Pavlou. Australia. 2024.
People Gods and other Creatures. Dir. by Svetlana Strelnikova. Germany. 2025.
Another Place. Dir. by Jhizet Panosian. Belgium, Denmark, Germany. 2024.
Unforgettable Homeland, Asia Minor. Dir. by Irini Sarioglou. Greece. 2023.
Το μοναστήρι της μεταμόρφωσης του Σωτήρος, Καμένων Βούρλων (Αγιάς). Dir. by Vasiliki Kouvela. Greece. 2024.
Winds of Change. Dir. by Alistair Meharg. UK, Cyprus. 2024.
White Mountains. Dir. by Alexandros Papathanasiou. Greece. 2024.
A Cloud Between. Dir. by Flora Prisimintzi. Greece. 2025.A portrait of the collector as a mature man. Dir. by Panayotis Evangelidis. Greece. 2023.
Short Fiction Films
Snowglobes. Dir. by Grigoris Vardarinos. Greece. 2024.
Acheron. Dir. by Konstantina Papadopoulou. Greece. 2024.
The Actors. Dir. by Thodoris Vournas. Greece. 2024.
Cancer Kid. Dir. by Vasili Manikas. Canada. 2025.
Jasteece. Dir. by Christina Charcharidi. Greece. 2024.
Blood Water. Dir. by Nick S. Chanakoulas & Aris Koulaidis. Greece. 2025. Short Fiction Screenplays
Alice in Lotus Eaters Land. Written by Pavlos Valsamidis. Greece.
The World’s Oldest Professions. Written by George Sivetidis. UK.
Fiction Feature Screenplays
The Great Refusal. Written by Constantinos Frixou. Cyprus.
The hippocampus. Written by Marietta Birbili. Greece.
Deniers. Written by Maciej Litwin, Lech Zdunkiewicz. Poland.
Ghost of Thalassa. Written by Ian J. Courter
The Lady of the Sea. Written by Maria Zampeli. Greece.
—Odysseus Awards, Cosmocinema Awards and Acting Code Awards are not accompanied by cash prize or funding.
