[september 6] A POEM at CROSSROADS 2026 in San Francisco 🌉✨

So happy about this one! A Poem will have its Bay Area premiere at CROSSROADS 2026, the 17th edition of San Francisco Cinematheque's festival.

The film screens in Program 7, before the great palaces, everything was still, on Sunday, September 6 at 5pm, a program of films that keep the world just out of reach, close enough to hear it breathing on the other side of the wall.

The program is named after a phrase from the film, which means a great deal to me.

"...before the great palaces, everything was still..."

Still from A Poem (2025)

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If you are in the area, come say hello!

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[may 30] A POEM x2 in NEW YORK: Brooklyn Film Festival & the Film-Makers' Cooperative 🗽✨

Two screenings of A Poem in New York on the same day!

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A Poem at the 29th Brooklyn Film Festival, Experimental Block #1, Saturday, May 30 at 8:00 PM at The Wythe Hotel's Screening Room in Williamsburg, a 60 seat cinema inside a 1901 barrel factory on the East River, Manhattan glittering across the water. 🌊
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A Poem (2025), Official Selection, 29th Brooklyn Film Festival.

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A Poem at the 13th New Year/New Work Film Festival at the Film-Makers' Cooperative in Manhattan! In Program 2, Saturday, May 30 at 4:00 pm, in the Coop's 32 seat microcinema at 475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor.
[Come and support!]
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New Year/New Work poster, the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

love you new york
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[april 19] A POEM at the 40th Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC)

Amazing that A Poem is screening at the 40th Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) at the Regal Cinema in Chinatown this upcoming Sunday April 19 at the Metroshorts 1 Section line up.

See you there!

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[november 7] RAIN at the 8th Engauge Experimental Film Festival ❤️🙏

Always a pleasure screening my work at the Engauge Experimental Film Festival, one of the few festivals in the world that originates on film stock. The 2025 edition gathered around the theme of Embodied Landscapes, inviting filmmakers who use landscape as more than setting. Landscape here becomes a prism for memory, history, and politics. Something felt, not just seen.

Rain is screening at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle this Friday November 7 at 4:30pm.

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https://nwfilmforum.org/films/engauge-2025-embodied-landscapes/

Still from Rain (2024).

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[october 21] A POEM WINS BEST EXPERIMENTAL AT THE 23RD TALLGRASS FILM FESTIVAL 🏆✨💫

This is amazing! A Poem has won Best Vortex Experimental at the 23rd Annual Tallgrass Film Festival.

The film had its Kansas Premiere with two in-person screenings
Saturday, October 18 at the Boulevard Theatre
Sunday, October 19 at the Tallgrass Film Center
followed by virtual screenings running through October 28.

Grateful to the festival team, programmers, and audiences in Wichita for the warm reception. This one means a lot.

grazie
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[october 12] RAIN at Harvard University’s CAMLab 💫✨

So happy for this!
Rain will be screened at Harvard University’s CAMLab (Cognitive Aesthetics and Media Lab) in Boston on October 12, 2025, at 2 PM, as part of the Revolutions Per Minute Festival. CAMLab is a hub for interdisciplinary media practice and immersive art!

Rain is included in the section “Listen to the Wind.”

[september 22] RAIN eligible for the European Film Awards at the 23rd Tirana International Film Festival ❤️

Rain has been officially recognized as a European Film Awards qualifying film in the Video Art & Experimental category through its selection at the 23rd Tirana International Film Festival.
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[august 29] RAIN at Laterale Film Festival 🇮🇹❤️

Happy to be part once again in the 9th Lateral Film Festival at the beautiful Cinema San Nicola in Cosenza, Italy. Two was screened there in 2019, and now Rain will be featured on the second day of the festival, in the section Reality with Omissions, on Friday, August 29 at 8:30 pm local time, together with amazing films and filmmakers:

Light of Light, Neritan Zinxhiria (Greece, 2023, 13′)
Rain, Vasilios Papaioannu (United States, 2025, 6′)
Daccapo, Liam Baldini (Italy, 2025, 13′)
Appleeater Good Kisser?, Ulrike Schild (Austria, 2024, 3′)
You Belong to the River, José Freitas (Portugal, 2025, 10′)
Allegoria Cittadina, Alice Rohrwacher & JR (France, 2024, 21′)

More info here: https://www.lateralefilmfestival.com/programma/

miss you italy
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[august 15 & 16] A POEM at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤗

Thrilled that A Poem will screen as a UK premiere in the Experimental Shorts section at the 78th Edinburgh International Film Festival!

-Fri 15 Aug 2025 | 13:30 National Galleries of Scotland Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
-Sat 16 Aug 2025 | 19:00 Filmhouse Screen 3
-Sat 16 Aug 2025 | 13:00 Vue Cinema Screen 11

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A journey from the microscopic to the planetary, these ten works collectively map an unsettled present and an unknown future. Beginning in the quiet, observational terrain of nature, light, and breath, and unfolding through questions of memory, identity, and power, they gradually expand into fractured landscapes of bodies, history, and ultimately, speculative imaginations. Both tactile in form and conceptual in scope, this collection attempts at proposing other ways of sensing, resisting, and becoming. Whether digital, archival or cosmic, each work vibrates with a refusal to settle, inviting us into a cinema of nuance, transformation, and radical possibility.

– Massimo Iannetti

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[july 10] RAIN on the island of Folegandros!!!!//////🌊🐚⛱

I wish I was there on the island of Folegandros!!!!!!!
Rain will screen at the National Competition for the Psarokokalo ISFF.
[miss you Greece ❤️]

Thursday, July 10, 2025
21:00 - 22:30 at the Primary School
In the center of Pounta Square in Chora, is the Primary School of Folegandros. It is housed in a building from the early 20th century.
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[may 17 & 18] RAIN & A POEM at the 26th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival 💫😎

I love Moviate
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Both Rain and A Poem will be screened at the 26th edition of the Moviate Underground Film Festival.
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RAIN will be shown in the section Cinatura Revisited at 11:15 AM on Saturday, May 17th at the Midtown Cinema.

A POEM will be shown in the section Anatomy of Life at 1:10 pm on Sunday, May 18th at the Midtown Cinema.

see you there!!!!!!

[may 9] RAIN at the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 🇹🇷💫

First time in Turkey, Rain will be screened at the 6th Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival this upcoming Friday, May 9th, at the beautiful HOPE Alkazar Cinema in the center of Istanbul. The screening is at 15:45 local time, as part of the Short Selection Section: Film/Poem.

More info here:
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[may 3] RAIN at the 39th Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) 📽🎬

So happy that Rain had an amazing screening yesterday at the 39th Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) at the Regal Cinema in Chinatown. Watching Rain in DCP format was an incredible experience! Thank you, Filmfest DC!

Rain (2024) by Vasilios Papaioannu at Regal Cinema/Gallery Place (Screening Room 10) in Washington, DC.

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[may] A POEM @ LABOCINE'S MAY ISSUE ▶︎ COSMOVISION

So happy that my latest short A Poem is part of Labocine’s May Issue - Cosmovision.

[May 2025 Issue Description]

In a time of accelerating noise and planetary imbalance, Cosmovision invites us to pause and look upward—and inward. This month's Labocine program assembles a constellation of films that explore the cosmos not only as physical space but as a mirror of human perception, belief, and imagination. From experimental meditations to science-fueled documentaries, ancestral cosmologies to speculative futures, these works offer diverse and poetic visions of the universe. Drawing from scientific research, spiritual traditions, and cinematic invention, Cosmovision celebrates the many ways we seek understanding and connection through the stars—offering a celestial compass in a chaotic world.


Labocine is a science cinema platform with many identities, one of which is a monthly film magazine + annual festival + scientific journal that connects scientific thought with other issues that pertain to our cultures, societies and cinematic expressions.

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[april 23] A POEM @ CICA MUSEUM for the Abstract Mind Exhibition 🇰🇷🙏

My new short film, A Poem, will be part of the Abstract Mind Exhibition 2025 at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea, from April 23 to May 18.

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[april 5] RAIN at the 35th Onion City Experimental Film Festival 💫

Amazing news! Rain will screen at the incredible 35th edition of the Onion City Experimental Film Festival in Chicago at the Chicago Filmmakers Firehouse Cinema, on April 5th in the 'Tailwind' section, alongside wonderful films and filmmakers.

TAILWIND | April 5, 2025 - 2:00PM

Pack the trunk and we are hitting the road, baby! This program is a collection of roadtrip memories, travelogues, family movies, and film diaries. There’s a revisit of a historic journey, a daydream in a parking lot, and—remember the solar eclipse last year that passed through the Midwest right after Onion City, on April 8? Filmmakers were not going to miss that good opportunity to make films. They are the star chasers, and their cameras, as we shall say with Jonas Mekas, “The camera is always running!”

From cinefile.com:

Vasilios Papaioannu's RAIN (2024, 6 min) is a waterlogged psychotravelogue that seems to tunnel directly out of a couple's conversation and into the streets where the camera simply roams unbounded, seemingly across a few countries, through city streets and onto country roads, into ornate homes, and so on. It's as though once the rain begins to strike the camera lens in the opening moments, the associative floodgates are thrown wide open and the film is carried adrift in quicksilver rivulets of memory

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[january 24] RAIN in the UK 🇬🇧

Rain at the amazing Cornwall Film Festival this upcoming Friday, January 24. The program is called:

Intersection

This pop-up is a dynamic investigation into the intersection of art, ideas, and human experience, using the power of lens-based media to challenge, inspire, and engage. It seeks to create a platform for innovative collaborations, fostering dialogue between artists, thinkers, and audiences to uncover new ways of seeing and understanding the world around us. At its core, this initiative celebrates the transformative potential of lens-based media to transcend disciplines, spark curiosity, and forge meaningful connections between art, ideas, and experience.

More info here:
https://www.mormediacharity.org/intersection2025

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[october 12] RAIN in Paris!!!!!!!🇫🇷

So excited! This upcoming weekend, October 12 Rain is screening at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) for the 22nd Festival International Signes de Nuit in Paris, France. Rain will screen at the Program 1 of the International Cinema in Transgression. More info below:

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