Our Team.
Director/Cinematographer
Yota (Panagiota) Samioti is a photographer, writer, and academic based in Greece. She is co-founder of the artivist collective WINART, and 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.
Actress
Faidra Galanaki is an actress, graduated from the Athinaiki Drama School, where she has performed in stage productions including Blood Wedding (Lorca), Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), and The Trojan Women (Euripides). In cinema, she played the lead in Inner Harbour (2025) and appeared in STILL (2025). Alongside her work on stage and screen, she teaches theatre to children and adults, bringing her passion for performance into community spaces.
Editor/Cinematographer
Marilia Galanaki is a film and video director, editor, and cinematographer based in Crete. She has attended film directing and editing workshops as well as various film camps nationally and internationally. Her work spans short films and event videography, and she has volunteered as a camera operator at cultural events and festivals. Her documentary Jazz Monopatia won First Prize in the Student Documentary Competition of the Chania Film Festival (2024). Her most recent short film, STILL (2025), received an Honourable Mention at the Young Film Awards in London and continues its festival journey internationally.
About
Inner Harbour is a poetic short film that explores the journey from collapse to calm, and from searching outward to finding an inner anchor. Through silence, fragmented imagery, and a solitary voice-over, the film reflects on resilience, presence, and the discovery of strength within.
Created with minimal means but deep commitment, Inner Harbour blends cinema and visual art, offering viewers not a conventional narrative but an invitation to pause and to experience stillness as a form of wholeness.
As the directorial debut of Yota Samioti, the film is both deeply personal and universally resonant, seeking to empower women and young people in their own paths toward grounding and self-acceptance.
SCREENINGS
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Inner Harbour premiered as part of THE PORT – Art Exhibition in Chania (Crete, Greece) from 20 to 26 August 2025, as part of the European program “Breaking the Patterns”, organized in collaboration by Capacity Ireland (Ireland), the Cultural Company of Crete / Chania Film Festival (Chania), and the Institute of European Education (Rethymno). Presented in a gallery setting, the film was showcased alongside visual works exploring themes of place, memory, and belonging, allowing audiences to experience it as both cinema and moving image art.
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Screen as a part of the event "16+ Days of Action for the Prevention and Response to Violence Against Women and Girls" on November 25, 2025, in Heraklion, at the Central Building of the Region of Crete (Eleftherias Square), organized across Crete by the Region of Crete, the Office for Gender Equality, the Regional Committee for Gender Equality of Crete (PEPIS Crete), and the Directorate of Culture & Sports, within the framework of the #ItStopsWithMe campaign.
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4 May 2026: Special Screening & Panel Discussion. Health, Culture and Equality: Paths of Mental Resilience and Well-being
Inner Harbour was selected for a special screening event organized by the Region of Crete and cultural and health
organizations in Heraklion, Crete, focusing on mental resilience, well-being, equality, and the dialogue between art and health.
The event included a screening of the film followed by a panel discussion titled “Art, Health and Equality in Dialogue”, featuring director Yota Samioti, actress Phaedra Galanaki, researchers, educators, and art therapists.
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19-20 June 2026: Screening in Leda's Monologues (Agrinio International Film Festival)
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