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SPITI

ΣΠΙΤΙ (noun): Greek for house

Alex is dealing with two losses; her father’s sudden death, and the impending sale of her family house, that he had built as an architect. Trying to cope with this new reality, she starts forming a curious relationship with the house itself, as she witnesses the kitchen’s A/C coughing, and she unexpectedly falls in love with a girl. 
A personal guide on love and loss, set in the heat of the Greek summer, and narrated in parallel by the real people who lived in the house. 

  • Sofia Sfyri
    Director
  • Sofia Sfyri
    Writer
  • Nicole Alexandropoulos
    Producer
  • Angelika Stavropoulou
    Key Cast
    "Alex"
  • Maria Filini
    Key Cast
    "Zizi"
  • Marialena Ilia
    Key Cast
    "Betty"
  • Zoe Sigalou
    Key Cast
    "Zoe"
  • Thomas Tsiftelis
    Director of Photography
  • Alki Papastathopoulos
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ΣΠΙΤΙ
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Fiction Documentary, Queer, Drama
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Shooting Format:
    Sony Venice II
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:66
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Drama International Short Film Festival
    Drama
    Greece
    September 6, 2024
    National Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Athens International Film Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    October 13, 2024
    Silver Athena Award
  • Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    May 24, 2025
    International
    Official Selection
  • QueerWave
    Nicosia
    Cyprus
    September 15, 2025
    European
    Official Selection
  • Hamburg Queer
    Hamburg
    Germany
    October 17, 2025
    German
    Official Selection
  • Tokyo ISFF
    Tokyo
    Japan
    June 17, 2025
    Asian
    Best Short Film
  • Spicy Indy ISFF
    Athens
    December 8, 2024
    Best Cinematography Award
Director Biography - Sofia Sfyri

Sofia Sfyri was born in Athens in 1990. She studied Film (BA) at the University of Westminster, and Performance (MA) at Central Saint Martins, in London. Since she graduated, she has been working as an director, editor, and assistant director. She has worked on projects for APPLE TV+, VOGUE, the Onassis Foundation's Stegi, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, et al.

In 2020-21, she received the “Artworks” fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, for her work as a visual artist. Her first short documentary, Zabeta (2021, co-directed by Elissavet Sfyri), won the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was nominated for a Hellenic Film Academy Award. Her second short film, Spiti (2024), was awarded with the Silver Athena prize at the Athens IFF. In May 2025, it had its international premiere at InsideOut Toronto.

The last two feature documentaries she has edited (“In the Image of Human”, “Sexability: A story about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Love”) premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.

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Director Statement

How do you say goodbye to a person, or a house? Do you know when you’ll see them for the last time, and what you would share if you knew? How does a body become inanimate in a split second, and a house become animate through the people living in it?

When my father passed away in 2020, I spent the lockdown in the house he had built for us in Greece. His absence was constant -painful and soothing at once- present in every detail of his aesthetics. Putting the house on the market became both the inciting incident of the film and the trigger for me to write a story told through actors and the real people who inhabited it.

SPITI is a dual farewell: to my father and to the house he built for us. It is also a tribute to love, humour, and the Greek summer.