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INNER HARBOUR

Seeking grounding after emotional struggles, a young woman ultimately discovers a harbour of calm within herself.

🔹 Synopsis

A poetic short film that traces one woman’s journey from collapse to calm. Through a solitary voice-over and her silent presence, the film reflects on trauma, loneliness, and the search for grounding. In under three minutes, Inner Harbour distills the image of a harbour into an inner state of safety and acceptance.

  • Yota Samioti
    Director
  • Faidra Galanaki
    Writer
  • Yota Samioti
    Producer
    Still
  • Faidra Galanaki
    Key Cast
    "Woman"
    Still
  • Marilia Galanaki
    Editor
    Jazz Pathways, Still
  • 'Snowfall' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
    Music
    Penumbra, Eyes In The Void, Echoes Of Home, Incredulity
  • Marilia Galanaki
    Cinematography
  • Yota Samioti
    Cinematography
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    poetic, monologue, art film
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 30, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Greek (Modern)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • THE PORT - Art exhibition
    Chania
    Greece
    August 20, 2025
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence – Regional Government of Crete (Chania), 2025
    Heraklion
    Greece
    November 25, 2025
Director Biography - Yota Samioti

Yota (Panagiota) Samioti is a photographer, writer, and academic based in Greece. She is a member of the WIFT.GR (Women in Film and Television, part of an international network of over 50 WIFT chapters on six continents) and co-founder of the artivist collective WINART.GR (Women in Art, NGO). Her work explores identity, trauma, and social justice. After contributing as a scriptwriter and producer on short films, she makes her directorial debut with Inner Harbour, a poetic meditation on mental health. Her practice experiments with silence, gesture, and imagery to create fragments rather than linear narratives, approaching cinema as a threshold — between visual art and film, between presence and absence — where viewers are invited to pause, reflect, and inhabit their own inner landscapes. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17482114/)

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Director Statement

Cinema is not only about telling stories but opening spaces of perception.