The Anafi International Film Festival returns for its 4th edition from June 18 to June 24, 2026, on the Cycladic island of Anafi.

 

AnafiFF is a curated short film festival dedicated to independent cinema and bold, original voices. Founded by film professionals with experience in international festivals and cultural institutions, it creates a space for encounter, exchange and experimentation. Cinema here is not treated as a fixed form but as an open field where narrative, image and experience continuously shift.

 

The festival takes place across the island through outdoor and site specific screenings, accompanied by workshops, talks and collective gatherings. The landscape of Anafi is not a backdrop but an active element of the experience, shaping how films are seen, shared and remembered.

 

For its 2026 edition, AnafiFF turns towards the present as a condition rather than a subject. A present that slips away as it unfolds, constantly reshaped by what comes next while carrying traces of what has already passed. Marked by speed, saturation and continuous consumption, it is a time of urgency and exhaustion where attention fragments and meaning is often deferred.

 

This year’s programme brings together films that engage with the world as it is happening. Works that explore the tension between the personal and the political, where intimate gestures and everyday spaces are entangled with wider social, historical and geopolitical forces.

 

We are drawn to shifting ideas of home and belonging, to questions of place, displacement, return and attachment, and to landscapes shaped by memory, conflict or silence. To bodies moving through environments that no longer feel stable or permanent.

 

Rather than offering answers, the programme invites attentiveness, risk and presence. It welcomes films that move between stillness and rupture, urgency and inertia, fragmentation and care. If your work is rooted in the now and shaped by its contradictions and uncertainties, we want to encounter it.