The Pelion Circle is a ten-day gathering in Pelion, Greece for people shaping contemporary independent cinema working across the international film landscape.
Founded by Everybodies, the gathering was built around a simple idea: that cinema needs spaces with different rhythms. Spaces where people can think clearly, spend time together without urgency, and reconnect to the deeper reasons they make and support films.
Held at coastline of Pelion, the gathering combines collective life with periods of solitude and independent work. Participants share screenings, meals, workshops, excursions, and conversations, while also maintaining uninterrupted time for writing, editing, reading, swimming, walking, or developing projects privately within the landscape.
The Pelion Circle is intentionally small. Rather than functioning as a conference or networking event, it operates more like a temporary creative environment, one where relationships form gradually through proximity, shared attention, and sustained dialogue over time.
Participants come from different parts of the film ecosystem, allowing conversations to move naturally between artistic process and the realities of financing, programming, producing, distributing, and sustaining independent cinema internationally. The gathering welcomes both emerging and established voices, placing equal value on creative ambition, critical thought, and long-term cultural contribution.
Pelion itself shapes the structure and atmosphere of the experience. The geography of the region, forests descending into the sea, stone paths connecting villages, long communal meals, shifting weather, and physical distance from major cities, creates a slower framework for exchange and reflection.
The Pelion Circle is interested in cinema not only as an art form, but as a way of building relationships, communities, and enduring cultural memory.
APPLICATIONS
Applications are open to individuals working across independent cinema and film culture, including directing, producing, cinematography, editing, writing, programming, financing, criticism, composition, development, distribution, and curatorial practice.
Applicants are invited to submit work and materials that reflect both their practice and perspective. We are interested less in polished presentation than in clarity of voice, curiosity, and a serious engagement with cinema.
Selected participants will join a small international group living and working together in Pelion for the duration of the gathering.
PAST PARTICIPANTS
2025
Maya Albanese
Gabrielle Demeestere
Emma Doxiadi
Angalis Field
Carissa Gallo
Alexandra Matheou
Pantelis Roumanis
Peter Spark
2024
Angalis Field
Daniel Goldhaber
Mathilde Hauducoeur
Alexandra Matheou
Amy Omar
Jordan Sjol
Jack Cooper Stimpson
Emma Doxiadi
2023
Chaconne Martin Berkowicz
Janah Cox
Emma Doxiadi
Angalis Field
Yael Greenberg
Alexandra Matheou
Lauren Mikus
Savvas Stavrou
Constantine Venetopoulos
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