Syros International
Film Festival

The development of the “Off Season” theme for 2020 began immediately after the end of the seventh edition of SIFF. However, the current situation has given new dimensions to the theme: how to interpret the phrase “Off Season” when the prospect of restarting touristic activity seems distant and uncertain? What is “outside” and what is “within” an era in a period that has disturbed our perception of time itself, forced as we are to focus on the urgent circumstances of the present, on the imperative “here-and-now”?