Afroditi Kairaki is a film studies researcher and filmmaker. Her publications focus on postmodern cinema, cinematic representations of gender and disability, film ethics, interdisciplinary approaches to cinema and literature, and the history and aesthetics of short films. In 2021, she published the essay Postmodernism and New Hollywood with Aigokeros Publications, and she has a study on the history of short films in Greece forthcoming.
She participates in film productions as a screenwriter and researcher. The documentary series Writing Bethune won the award for Best Historical Documentary at the China Academy Awards of Documentary Film 2023. She is currently working on a Greek-Canadian documentary production (Laika Productions and Rare Earth Media), funded by EKKOMEΔ and the Canada Council for the Arts, while also preparing a study on the history of short films in Greece for publication.
Additionally, she works as a teaching assistant in the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture at Panteion University while conducting her postdoctoral research on the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of representing trauma and violence in cinema. She is a member of the Collaborative Academic Staff (ΣΕΠ) in the undergraduate program Film Writing, Practice, and Research Studies at the Hellenic Open University (HOU), supervising professor for the Diaplasis Program (Parliament of Greece channel), and a registered trainer with the Institute of Educational Policy (IEP). She has also served as a member of the juries for short films at the Beyond Borders and KINO Documentary Festivals.