Podcast Competition - TIFF67

Creators: Evdokia Noula, Alyssa Moxley. Script: Evdokia Noula, Alyssa Moxley. Sound Recording-Editing: Alyssa Moxley. Participants: Residents of the communities of Dosoula, Ano Kampos, Familas, Sykias, Symi and Stranomas, mountain settlements in Oreini Nafpaktia. Field Research: Evdokia Noula, Alyssa Moxley. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 30 min

'All this is real, but only I have heard it' documents oral narratives about Neraides (fairies) in mountainous Nafpaktia. The tales unfold a process of socially constructing truth; a collective imagination illuminating how the modernization of the countryside —roads, electricity— is entangled with the gendered symbolism of nature and femininity.

Creator: Antigone Efstratoglou. Production: Antigone Efstratoglou (with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University). Script: Antigone Efstratoglou. Music: sponty. Sound Recording-Editing: Christos Avramidis. Narration: Antigone Efstratoglou. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 27 min

What is a day like in a youth prison? How do the years pass? What does confinement teach those who experience it, and why should we listen closely to voices from the other side? Is there really an “other side”? An audio documentary bringing together voices separated by walls.

Creator: Georgia Karydi. Production: Georgia Karydi. Script: Georgia Karydi, Roula Karydi. Original Music-Sound Recording-Editing: Georgia Karydi. Narration: Georgia Karydi, Roula Karydi. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 23 min

One of the last phrases, a gift to the daughter before the mother passed away, comes back to mind and becomes the reason to experience a large archive of recordings the daughter made, years later, documenting the relationship, the parent- child care that changes direction, the handling of time within time and ends with a profound question: How to live life?

Creator: Eirini Kontogeorgiou. Production: Eirini Kontogeorgiou, Studio Ichovrychio. Script: Eirini Kontogeorgiou. Sound Recording-Editing: Giannis Oikonomou. Narration: Eirini Kontogeorgiou, Giannis Oikonomou. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 25 min

With the tavern “Peinaleon” as its starting point, the podcast explores the cultural role of gathering places as spaces of collective memory, encounter, and resistance to the erosion of communities. Through sounds, testimonies, and an interview with Polytechnic uprising broadcaster Dimitris Papachristos, it highlights the power of places to create and sustain communities.

Creator: Nalia Ziku. Production: Nalia Ziku. Script: Klara Debeljak. Original Music: Nalia Ziku. Editing-Narration: Nalia Ziku. Language: English. Greece-Slovenia, 2026, 23 min

In a future New Balkan Union where technology, ecology and mythology coexist, human and non-human voices recall the collapse of the old world and the emergence of a new collective order. Wind sirens and the goddess Mokoš weave together networks, memory, land and resistance.

Creator: Zinovia Sapouna. Script: Zinovia Sapouna. Sound Recording-Editing: Smaragda Stamoulakatou. Original Music: Smaragda Stamoulakatou. Narration: Zinovia Sapouna. Cover Artwork: Giannis Loukarellis. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 27 min

From 1987 and for a decade, Radio Utopia and Radio Kivotos broadcast on the FM frequencies of Thessaloniki without advertisements, without owners, without directors. Drawing on archival material and personal testimonies, the documentary reconstructs a history of self-management, counter-information and alternative radio that feels more relevant than ever.

Creator: Thomas Sideris. Production: Dimitris Kanellopoulos - Spyros Ktenas, Sotiris Manianis / EFSYN Podcasts. Script: Thomas Sideris. Sound Recording-Editing: Antonis Papavomvolakis. Narration: Thomas Sideris. Informants: Michalis Kaltsidis, Charalampos Georgiou, Ioannis Alexiou, Konstantinos Prodromidis, Manolis Delavinias. Featuring: Ioannis Anyfantis. Editorial Supervision-Interviews: Thomas Sideris, Leonidas Kasapis. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 25 min

Fragments of memory from the coming-of-age of an abused autistic boy in Greece in the 1980s.

Creator: Despoina Sotiropoulou. Production: Despoina Sotiropoulou, ds Productions. Script: Despoina Sotiropoulou. Original Music: Christos Giannopoulos. Sound Recording: Konstantinos Stamatakos. Editing: Konstantinos Poutachidis. Narration: Despoina Sotiropoulou. Interviewees: Giannis Lagos, Sotiris Karalis. Cover Art Direction: Adel Azrak. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 29 min

Stemnitsa, before the Greek uprising of 1821. Two workshops for counterfeiting counterfeit coins are set up by silversmiths and goldsmiths, and the counterfeiters of Stemnitsa deceive the Turks. Three corroborating testimonies, based on recent evidence and oral accounts, complement the folk tradition and expand the historical bibliography. The occupiers financed “their great defeat”.

Creator: Vasilis Zampikos. Production: Maria Papageorgiou. Script-Original Music-Sound Recording-Editing: Vasilis Zampikos. Narration: Vangelis Chatzis. Language: Greek. Greece, 2026, 29 min

An audio documentary about the life of Vangelis Hatzis, the world’s first professional one-armed boxer. A compelling journey from his childhood and years spent in rehabilitation centers, through teenage fights and the battles of everyday life, to the boxing rings of England and Greece.

Creator: Grey Filastine. Production-Cover Art: Mat Jacob. Original Music: Filastine & Nova, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Brent Arnolds, Y La Bamba & Filastine, Susobrino. Script-Sound Recording-Editing-Narration: Grey Filastine. Language: English. Spain-Indonesia, 2026, 25 min

At the narrow passage between two oceans, Arka Kinari encounters worlds colliding: Indigenous islands disappearing beneath rising seas, Colón’s shadow economy, and the vast machinery of the Panama Canal. Crossing into the Pacific becomes a journey through the hidden costs and strange contradictions of the global systems connecting our world.