[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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[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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https://tiranafilmfest.org/films/rain/

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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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[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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