Summer in Greek cinema is rarely just a setting. It is a moment of exposure, when communities, bodies, and emotions emerge under the scorching sun. Across different moments in Greek filmmaking, short films return to summer as a shared terrain, social and deeply felt. Early works linger on lives shaped by labour, ritual, and inequality, where beauty and hardship coexist, and change gathers quietly at the edges. Islands, neighbourhoods, and gathering places hold a collective pulse, charged with silence and watchfulness. Over time, summer slips between mountains, islands, and cities, across balconies, deserted resorts, and imagined landscapes. Community loosens and reshapes, held by care, desire, absence, and quiet transformation. In the heat, reality softens as dreams surface and moments of...