Hansel
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NOMINATED - BEST HORROR SHORT FILM
2020
Greece
17 mins
Modern Greek
NYC Premiere
Winter FEAR Awards Horror Film Competition
Vivian Papageorgiou | |
Mina Dreki | |
Aggelos Karaminas, Nestoras Kopsidas, Andromachie Makridou |
A young boy is trapped in a Gingerbread House which hides a gloomy world underneath, while his mother is desperately trying to find the gate that will take him out of there.

About the Director
Vivian Papageorgiou has a degree in Cinema Studies from Athens University, a Master’s degree in Cinema from Nouvelle Sorbonne Paris III, Cinema Directing from Stavrakos Cinema School, English Literature from Aristotle University and Interior Design from Dimitrelis School of Arts. She is a Sarajevo Film Festival talent alumni (2016) and her script Hansel was at the Pitch. In 2018, her script Lost & Found won the Greek Film Academy Award. She is working at the University of Athens and is in script development of a feature documentary.
Awards
2020 Tabloid Witch Awards (USA) – Best Production Design
2020 Micro m Film Festival (Greece) – Best Director
2020 New Generation Film Festival (Belgrade) – Best Short Film
2020 International Film Festival of Larissa (Greece) – Special Mention from the Jury for the Artistic Direction
2020 ISAFF International Symbolic Art Film Festival (Russia) – Special Mention (Best Thriller)