The 14th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival wishes to thank:
The Minister of Culture Lina G. Mendoni
The Deputy Minister of Culture, responsible for contemporary culture, Iason Fotilas
The Regional Governor of Attica Nikos Hardalias
The General Secretary of Contemporary Culture of the Ministry of Culture Eleni Doundoulaki
The Head of the Directorate of Performing Arts and Cinema of the Ministry of Culture Margarita Alexomanolaki
The Head of the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual Media of the Ministry of Culture Eleni Toubanaki
The executives of the Special Management Service of the Regional Operational Program of Attica, and especially the Head Dimitris Drosis, as well as Angelos Spiliotis, Andreas Katsanikos and Elisavet Konstantakou
The Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece, and especially the Chief Executive Officer Leonidas Christopoulos and the General Director Athina Kartalou-Antoukou
ARTWORKS and especially the Co-Founder and Director Marily Konstantinopoulou, the Programme Coordinator Panos Giannikopoulos and the Communication Manager Xaviera Kouvaras
Katherine Embiricos
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and especially Senior Program Officer Aristi Stathakopoulou and Communications
Officer Alexia Vasilikou
Authorwave, and in particular its General Manager and founder Panos Bisdas for sponsoring the post-production services award, as well as Chief Operating Officer Liza Chrysochoou
The Embassy of France in Greece and especially Ambassador Laurence Auer
The French Institute of Athens and in particular the Director Nicolas Eybalin, the Audiovisual Attaché Aimé Besson and the Assistant of the Cultural Cooperation and Cultural Industries Departments Anna Papadopoulou
The Goethe-Institut Athens and especially the Head of Cultural Department Goethe-Institut Athens and Region Europe I, and Head of Cooperations and Third-Party Assignments Region Europe I Marc-André Schmachtel and Eleanna Papathanasiadi
The Embassy of Austria in Greece and especially Ambassador Gerda Vogl, the Minister Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission Philipp Wassermann and Chara Mamata
The British Council in Greece and especially the Head of Arts Maria Papaioannou and the Partnerships and Programmes Coordinator | Regional Scale Coordinator Chrysoula Melidou
The Embassy of Portugal in Greece and especially Ambassador Rui Macieira, the Counsellor – Head of the Consular Section Thiago Carvalho and the Cultural Affairs Officer Christos Kotsakopoulos
The Embassy of Romania in Greece and especially the Head of Mission Mioara-Florina Pituț and the Minister Counsellor Katalin Oanță
The Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art and especially the Artistic Director Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, as well as Alexander Boldt, Gesa Knolle, Benjamin Marnitz and Carsten Zimmer
The curator of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, everything must change. RIS9, Nadja Argyropoulou, and the curator Zuzana Blochová of the organization Are | are-events.org (Are)
The musician Lolek
The Microbrewery of Cyclades Nisos and especially Maya Tsoklis
The Katogi Averoff Winery
Hotel Wyndham Grand Athens
STADION SA, and in particular its Chairman and CEO Alexis Fragiadis
STA.SY and especially Iakovina Kapela, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility & Cultural Heritage
And, also:
Stamatis Schizakis (curator, sector of photography and new media ΕΜΣΤ National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens)
Maria-Thalia Carras (curator, founder TAVROS)
Carmen Accaputo, Masao Adachi, Basma al-Sharif, Kamal Aljafari, Thanos Anastopoulos, Gay Angelis, Miguel Armas, Flavio Armone, Diandra Arriaga, Claire Atherton, Lin Htet Aung, David Bim, Nicolas Brevière, Valentina Bronzini, Nikos Dalezios, Dalva Deshogues, Stefan Djordjevic, Sofia Dona, Matthieu Dubois, Elena Duque, Brenda Erdei, Abbas Fahdel, Maureen Fazendeiro, Santiago M. Gallelli, Niki Giannari, Marina Gioti, Petros Gkotsis, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Andréa Goncalves, Alina Gorlova, Nicolas Graux, Giannis Haritidis, Go Hirasawa, Danae Io, Sayaka Ito, Wouter Jansen, Azra Jasarevic, José Jiménez, Xu Jing, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Bani Khoshnoudi, Dane Komljen, Nastia Korkia, Tajana Kosor, Maria Kourkouta, Ester Krumbachová, Apostolos Kryonas, Lola Lambert, Jack Leslie, Sophie Lidy, Théo Lionel, Laura Lutz, Ivan Marković, Randa Maroufi, Lucrecia Martel, Vincent Mathieu-Nicollet, Flavia Mazzarino, Tasos Melemenidis, Pablo Menéndez, Shô Miyake, Assiya Mouhsine, Simon Mozgovyi, Jinane Mrad, Ayman Nahle, Elise Notseck, Bonita Papastathi, Despina Pavlaki, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Marta Popivoda, Josep Prim, Andrea Queralt, Trương Minh Quý, Jelena Radenković, Aggeliki Rentzi, Pauline Rigal, Ben Rivers, Salomé Rizk, Tamer El Said, George Schmalz, Viktoria Schmid, Petros Sevastikoglou, Iro Siafliaki, Jasmina Sijercic, Vouvoula Skoura, Yelizaveta Smith, Evi Stamou, Eva Stefani, Jaka Strnad, Elisabeth Subrin, Maryam Tafakory, Abdellah Taïa, Stella Theodoraki, Clarissa Thieme, Sofia Tocar, Antoine Travers, Stavros Triantos, Armand Yervant Tufenkian, María Vera, Rhayne Vermette, Filipe Bessa Vieira, Margarita Vorra, Léon Wailly, Feargal Ward, Gerald Weber, Marina Xenofontos
AIA Films, Association Jocelyne Saab, Basilisco Filmes, Bitters End, Casa Azul Films, Cineteca di Bologna, Cinobo, Documatism, Exile Films, Exovedate Productions LTD, Fondation Chantal Akerman – Cinematek, Go Hirasawa – Masao Adachi Screening Committee, Heretic, interfilm Berlin, Kamal Aljafari Productions, Kino Lorber, Kino Rebelde, Light Cone, Lights On, Local Films, Manifest, Marvin & Wayne, MoMA, Národní filmový archiv, Nour Ballouk Co, Park Circus, Perspective Films, Rediance Limited, Short/Cuts, sixpackfilm, Slovenski Filmski Center, Square Eyes, Taskovski Films, The Match Factory, The Party Film Sales, Totem Films
