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Argyris Papadimitropoulos was born in Athens, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Monday (2020), Suntan (2016) and Wasted Youth (2011).Suntan (Σαντάν=Ηλιοθεραπεία) : Some bronze others burn 2016, Wasted Youth 2013 Παπαδημητρόπουλος Αργύρης- Director
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Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta, his first feature film, played at Toronto and Berlin film festivals to critical acclaim. His second feature Dogtooth, won the "Un Certain Regard prize" at the 2009 Cannes film festival, followed by numerous awards at festivals worldwide. It was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award (Oscar) in 2011. Alps won the "Osella for best screenplay" at the 2011 Venice film festival and Best Film at the Sydney film festival in 2012. His first English language film The Lobster was presented in Competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Moreover, "The Lobster" was nominated for the (Oscar about the) Best Original Screenplay by the Academy and won Best Screenplay and Best Costume Design at the European Film Awards of 2015. His fifth project "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" was also presented in Competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for the best Screenplay. Lanthimos's last film "The Favorite" is a historical Drama about the British Queen Anne.- Director
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An awarded Greek film director, born in Athens, with cinema and architecture studies. His debut film Addio Berlin gained Jury's Prize and Critics Mention at Thessaloniki FF for it's innovating style, while No Sympathy for the Devil was nominated for Golden Alexander and gained the Best Actress Award in TIFF. 2000+1 Shots was selected by B.Mousoulis among the 10 best films for 2001 in Senses of Cinema. His last film Three Days Happiness had 4 major nominations at Greek Film Academy Awards, showing in a number of festivals.Invisible 2015 Αθανίτης Δημήτρης- Director
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Alexander Avranas, born in Larissa in 1977. He started studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1998-2001) and then he continued at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin. With his first film "Without" he win seven awards at the 49th Film Festival of Thesaloniki and suggested for the Best Director Award at the International Film Festival of Milan.
Alexandros Avranas in all his works, film and visual arts, examines social and political issues. The interest concerns employing modern man either as an independent entity or as a member of society. Alexandros Avranas sneers, triggers, denounces our indifference and passivity.
On September 7th 2013 he won the Silver Lion Director at 70th Venice Film Festival for his film «Miss Violence», proves that times can be tough but there is still hope. The Greek film «Miss Violence» also won other honors since Themis Panou won the Volpi Cup Best Actor for his role in the film of Avranas. These awards were added to the other two Avranas won the last Friday of juries parallel Awards : Prize of critics FEDEORA of the best European -Mediterranean film competition section of the Mostra and prize Arca CinemaGiovanni conferred group of 70 young Italy, France and Tunisia. The film also won several awards in between Best Script at the Stokholm film Festival.
Avranas' film had the first view of the Lido impress audiences and critics, both the subject of (a Greek dysfunctional family driven into terrible situations, comment on the current economic situation in Greece and not only) and with the style - a style strict, austere, which although highly unrealistic not touched any naturalism.
A story centered on the Greek family and the degradation of neat mask, is in the heart of «Miss Violence»: the 11 year-old Angela jumping, smiling, from the balcony on the day of her birthday, and social services are struggling to understand why, as the family insists that he was listless accident while trying to hide guilty secrets.
Note that this is the second Lion of St. Mark winning Greek director at the Mostra film debut was the Gold Lion won the 1980 Theo Angelopoulos for his film "Alexander the Great".Miss Violence 2013 Αβρανάς Αλέξανδρος- Director
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Nikos Grammatikos was born in 1963 in Salamina, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Truants (1996), The King (2002) and Agrypnia (2005).Ο Βασιλιάς (The King) 2012- Director
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Constantine Giannaris is a Greek film director. He studied Finance, History and Philosophy at the Universities of Kiel and Birmingham. His cinema career started in England where he completed independent short films of short budget. His first Greek film, Mia Thesi Ston Helio (1995) was awarded with the Best Greek Film Award at the Short Film Festival of Drama in Greece. Also in 1995 another film was released, "3 Steps To Heaven", and in 1998 the "From the Edge of Town" film which was awarded the second Best Award Film by the Greek Ministry of Culture. In 2001 Giannaris filmed "Dekapedavgustos" (On the 15th of August) and in 2004 his "Omiros" (Homer). His films have been shown in many international film festivals and talked about in various fora. His first long film "3 Steps To Heaven" was financed and set in London. Today he lives and works in Athens, Greece.Spring Awakening 2015, Hostage 2005, 15Avgoustos 2001, Ap' tin akri tis polis 1998 Γιάνναρης Κωνσταντίνος- Director
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Sotiris Goritsas is known for Ap' to hioni (1993), Ap' ta kokala vgalmena (2011) and Valkanizater (1997).Brazilero 2001, Ap'to xioni 1993 Γκορίτσας Σωτήρης- Actor
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Yannis Economides was born in Cyprus in 1967. In 1987 he moved to Athens, Greece, to pursue studies in law, but almost immediately quit law school to study filmmaking instead.
After making several documentaries and short films, in 2003 he wrote and directed his first feature film, the iconic MATCHBOX. His second feature, SOUL KICKING, premiered at the International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival in 2006. His third feature, KNIFER, premiered at Busan International Film Festival in 2010 and went on to win seven Greek Film Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. His fourth feature, STRATOS, had its world premiere in the Official Competition of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in 2014.
In 2016 Yannis Economides wrote and directed his first play, SLEEP, STELLA, SLEEP for the New Stage of the National Theatre in Athens, which became a huge critical and commercial hit.
His latest feature, BALLAD FOR A PIERCED HEART, premiered in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and managed to become a box office hit in Greece. The film received 15 Greek Film Academy nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
All five of his feature films have been honored with the Greek Film Critics Association Award for Best Greek Feature Film of the Year and have screened at several prestigious international film festivals.
In November 2022, MATCHBOX - THE MUSICAL, premiered at the main stage of "Onassis Stegi", in libretto and artistic direction by Yannis Economides.
Currently, he is preparing his next feature, entitled ROCKS IN THE HEAD.Little Fish (Το μικρό ψάρι, η καταιγίδα έρχεται) 2015, Match-box (Spirtokouto) 2002 CY Οικονομίδης Γιάννης- Director
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Maria Ilioú is known for Treis epohes (1996), Alexandreia (2001) and The Journey: The Greek American Dream (2007).Smyrna The Destruction of Cosmopolitan City 2012, Alexandreia Ηλιού Μαρία- Director
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Born in Athens. He studied in London at the "London International Film School" and then in Paris at the "Sorbonne". From 1985 until 1995 he lived in Paris and London and made several shorts films which participated in festivals such as "The London Film Festival", "Festival Du Cinema Mediterraneen" where in 1991 the short film "The Fall and Rise of Lydia Von Burer" won the first price. In 1995 he founded in Athens the company "100% Synthetic Films" and started working on his first feature film Attack of the Giant Mousaka, The (2000). His second feature film, Real Life (2004), became a critics' favorite in Greece (won the National Critics Award in 2004), and traveled to the International Toronto Film Festival. He is now working on his third feature film called Strella.- Director
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Olga Malea was born in 1960. She is a director and writer, known for Proti fora nonos (2007), Rizoto (2000) and Matzourana (2013).Risoto 2000 Μαλέα Όλγα- Director
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Tassos Boulmetis studied Physics at the University of Athens and Film Production and Direction at the University of California (UCLA), under a scholarship support from the A. Onassis Foundation. At UCLA he taught as a teaching assistant classes on directing actors for film and television. In Greece he started his career as a director/producer of TV shows for the state TV networks. In 1990 he wrote, directed and co-produced the film "The Dream Factory" which was shot on analogue video and then transferred to 35mm film. The film obtained 8 awards in Greece and the Golden Award of Fantasy Movies in the Houston Film Festival. For several years he directed TV Commercials for Greek and European agencies. His second feature film, "A Touch of Spice", which he wrote, directed and co-produced is a labor of love for him as the story is based, mostly, on true facts drawn from his own life. The film became the biggest hit ever in Greece with over 1.600.00 admissions and has been distributed in 45 countries in all over the world. A "Touch of Spice" has been presented in several festivals around the world and has been awarded with 8 Awards of excellency in Greece. The film was Greece's official entry in the Academy Awards of 2005. His recent academic activities include, teaching classes on Advanced Film Directing, in private institutions in Greece. He is the first unanimously elected president of the Hellenic Film Academy. His third feature, "MYTHOPATHY", a coming of age story of a young man during the 70's in Greece, is a sarcastic comedy, about the Greek political system, and how it ended up in today's crisis. In 2018 he wrote directed an co-produced, the film "1968", a docu-fiction project, presenting the story of A.E.K. an underdog basketball team, founded by refugees in 1924 and after almost 50 years, won the European Champions Cup. He is a member of European Film Academy.Politiki Kouzina 2003 - (Istanbul), TRK Μπουλμέτης Τάσος- Director
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Aris Bafaloukas is known for Apnea (2010), Istories apo tin apenanti ohthi (2007) and To potami (1994).Άπνοια 2010 Μπαλαφούκας Άρης- Actor
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Christopher Papakaliatis was born and raised in Athens, Greece. His father, Manuel Papakaliatis was born and raised in Crete. Villy Malamis, his mother, is South African. His parents met in London, England, where they first begun dating. Four years later they got divorced, but they already have had two children, Christopher and Philippe. He also has two more siblings (Stefanos and Nara) from his father second marriage. Christopher was first cast in the age of 16 for a role in the TV drama series "Guards of Ahaia". A drama series, based on a novel by Tassos Athanasiadis, which was aired in 1992 by Mega Channel (one of the biggest private TV channels in Greece). After numerous roles in successful TV series as a teen actor in Greece, he decided to write his first TV script at the age of 23. "Our life is a path" was aired on Mega channel in the season 1999-2000 and was well recognized by critics and public. The following season he wrote and starred in the TV series "Take care of me" 2000-2001, and the following season he made the TV movie "Three wishes" 2001-2002. In 2003 he wrote and starred in the TV series "Close your eyes" which was one of the highest rating series in Greece. It was at that point that he decided to direct most of second and third season episodes with great success. In the TV drama "Close your eyes" a kiss between two men caused a great debate in Greece (as it was the first time for two male characters to kiss on air) and was followed by a fine by the Greek National Council for Radio and Television but was later withdrawn by The Council of State. In 2005-2006 he wrote, directed and starred in a new dram-thriller series "Two days only", which had controversial reviews. "Two days only" was not a big success in the rating board, but was acclaimed artistically as one of the best filmed TV series. In 2008 he wrote, directed and starred in the TV series "4". A story about four male brothers and their different lives. "4" was a big success in Mega channel but due to the economical crisis in Greece was not able to continue to its second season and was cut off the air in the summer of 2010. It was the same year that he got accepted as a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (EMMY International). In 2012, he starred next to Catherine Deneuve and Sebastian Koch in the feature film "God loves Caviar" directed by Iannis Smaragdis. "What If" is his first feature film. The film was written and directed by him, while on the same time he played the leading role of Demetris. "What If" is a love story in Athens during the European economical crisis and is now one of the biggest Greek box office hits. The movie was a commercial success in Greece for the 2012-2013 season and remained in theaters for more than 4 months, while it received very positive reviews. In 2015, his second feature film "Worlds Apart" was released. The movie made a 5m euro grossing in the Greek box-office, was released in 25 countries and received very positive reviews from the LA Times and other publications.
He has always been the music editor in all his TV series and in charge of the music scoring and songs played in the episodes. He also was in charge of the music editing in the film "What if".
Theatre: In 1993 he made his debut in the comedy " At last alone" written by Lakis Lazopoulos which opened in City Center theatre NYC and later toured throughout Greece. In 1996-1998 he played his first leading role in 'Les Parents terribles' written by Jean Cocteau. In 1999-2000 he played the leading role in The thief written by Maria Pacome. In 2001 he played in the theatrical version of the movie Shallow grave by John Golf. In 2007 he played "human voices" a puzzle of monologues written by Jean Cocteau. In 2011-2012 he played Volfgang Amadeus Mozart in the well-known theatrical play "Amadeus" by Peter Shaffer.
This period, he shares his time between Greece and Los Angeles preparing his upcoming TV and film projects.A Word Apart (Ένας Άλλος Κόσμος) 2015 Παπακαλιάτης Χριστόφορος- Director
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Lucia Rikaki was born on July 14, 1961 in Piraeus, Greece. She studied history of art, graphic design, cinema and photography at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England. She has collaborated with the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and the Danish Ministry of Environment, before returning to Greece, where she founded "Orama Films" (1984), producing art films, TV programs and theatrical plays.
She was a prolific and critically acclaimed director of both feature films and documentaries. A socially engaged and involved artist, she transformed her passion into a multifaceted work as director, writer, producer and cinematographer. She was the creator of two international documentary festivals in Greece: The EcoFilms in Rhodes and the Health Film Festival "Hippocrates" in Kos. In 1995 she created "104 Art Theater Stage", and "The Comedy Club," the only stand-up comedy venue to date in Greece.
Her last documentary, the "Salvation Plan," was filmed in the hospital "Sotiria" at Athens, where she was hospitalized and which was at the time playing host to an ambitious art exhibition. She died to cancer on December 28, 2011, at he age of 50.Ρικάκη Λουκία- Actor
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Manos Cizek was born on 22 March 1987 in Athens, Greece. He is an actor and director, known for The Penal Colony (2017), Red City (2012) and The Birdcage (2018).Red City 2012 Σίζεκ Μάνος- Director
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Nikos Tzimas has directed six feature length and two short films to date, three of them with historical content. All have enjoyed wide popular appeal and commercial success. He has participated in International Film Festivals, such as Cannes, Moscow, Thessaloniki etc., and has won 6 Best Film awards. One of his films was nominated for the Oscar of the Best Foreign Language Film. As a producer he has 55 films and 8 television series to his credit via his company Athens Films Production.
Nicos Tzimas was born in Zalongo, southwest Epirus, Greece. He studied film direction and during his study years he directed two short and one feature length film.
"For these heroines": The film was awarded with the Best Short Film award at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki. It was directed in his village and depicted the hard lives of the women in the Greek countryside.
"The girl with the radio": It was also awarded with the Best Short Film award at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki.
"The Young want to live": Nicos Tzimas' first feature length movie. The movie represented Greece in Moscow International Film Festival and received the award for the Best Debut Director. The movie's screening was prohibited by the Greek military Junta, since the music of the film was conducted by Mikis Theodorakis, who was jailed and exiled. The movie is about a man from Epirus coming to Athens in hopes of entering the University and becoming a mathematician. However, he is urged to migrate to Germany in order to become a worker as he faces unemployment.
"The lovers' Tomb": It was the Greek entry in Cannes Film Festival, which was eventually canceled due to May 1968 events in France. The film was prohibited by the Greek Military Junta while Nicos Tzimas was arrested, tortured and sent to jail by the Greek military Junta. He was convicted for 5 years but after 6 months he was set free due to General Amnesty act. The movie is about an impassioned love triangle that took place in a small village of Epirus.
"Thunderjohn": The money that the previous movie earned due to its worldwide distribution allowed Nicos Tzimas to make his first high-cost movie with historical content. It received the Best Film, Best Production and Best Actor awards at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki. The movie is set amid the agricultural uprisings that took place in Greece in 1912.
"The man with the carnation": It was awarded with the Grand Jury Prize at Moscow International Film Festival. It received the Best Film award at FIPRESI and the Best Film award at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki. It was nominated for the Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film at the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards. The film set a box office record and achieved worldwide distribution. In the US, it achieved the first place in box office among foreign films. The film is set in the beginning of the Cold War while McCarthyism raged in the US. CIA was the dominant power in Greece and had under its influence many politicians and army officers. Nicos Beloyannis, an idealist, was convicted for espionage and was sentenced to death. Even though the Prime Minister intended to give pardon to Beloyannis, a secret military organization, led by the imminent dictator Yorgos Papadopoulos, executed him at 4 in the night. The Prime Minister heard about his death the next morning. After several months, his government was subverted.
"The Years of the Tempest": It received the Best Film award at the Festival of Valencia and the Best Screenplay award at the Festival of Corfu. The film is about a Greek-American professor returning to his village in Epirus at the end of 1930's, between the second World War and the Greek Civil War.
"The Flight of the Swan": Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate. The story quickly evolves into a nerve rending adventure with driving action, relentless conflicts, unexpected reversals, insurmountable dilemmas and volatile internal pressures all leading to the triumph of love, friendship, beauty and life.The flight of the swan 2011, Ο Άνθρωπος με το Γαρύφαλλο 1980 Τζήμας Νίκος- Editor
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Dimitris Tzetzas is known for The Republic (2015), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).The Republic 2015 Τζέτζας Δημήτρης- Producer
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Athina Rachel Tsangari was born on 2 April 1966 in Aspra Spitia, Greece. She is a producer and director, known for Attenberg (2010), Chevalier (2015) and The Slow Business of Going (2000).Attemberg, 2010 Τσαγκάρη Αθηνά Ραχήλ- Director
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Born in Anthens in 1966, where he studied marketing at university and worked as a photographer, assistant director and editor of pop promos, as well as the produced of a radio programme. Moved to Berlin (Germany) in 1991 where he studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy (Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie). His short film, Parlez-moi d'amour (1994) was awarded a German Film Prize in 1995. My Sweet Home (2001) was his first feature film.Τσίτος Φίλιππος- Konstadinos Hoursoglou is known for O diaheiristis (2009) and Matia apo nyhta (2003).Ο Διαχειριστής Χούρσογλου Κωνσταντίνος
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George Kordellas was born on 23 December 1959 in Kozani, Greece. He is a director and assistant director, known for Roza of Smyrna (2016), Army Baby (2022) and Ariadni (2002).Roza of Smyrna 2016- Writer
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Laya Yourgou is known for Avrio tha 'nai arga (2002), Red Sky (2011) and To spiti stin exohi (1994).Liubi 2004- Actor
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Thodoris Atheridis was born on 3 May 1965 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is an actor and writer, known for Love Struck (2014), Perfect Strangers (2016) and Mia melissa ton Avgousto (2007).- Director
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Christos Dimas is known for Akrovates tou kipou (2001), Tessera (2000) and Enas ouranos gematos asteria (1996).Amore Mio- Director
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Stella Arkenti is known for I, Giannoulis Chalepas (2010), The Murderess (2012) and Ena hreos palio (1987).- Writer
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Stavros Tsiolis was born on 6 October 1937 in Tripoli, Greece. He was a writer and director, known for Please, Ladies, Don't Cry (1992), Akatanikitoi erastes (1988) and Erotas sti hourmadia (1990). He died on 23 July 2019 in Athens, Greece.- Actor
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Renos Haralambidis was born on 14 October 1970 in Athens, Greece. He is an actor and writer, known for No Budget Story (1997), The Heart of the Beast (2005) and 4 Black Suits (2010).- Director
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Born in Anthens in 1966, where he studied marketing at university and worked as a photographer, assistant director and editor of pop promos, as well as the produced of a radio programme. Moved to Berlin (Germany) in 1991 where he studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy (Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie). His short film, Parlez-moi d'amour (1994) was awarded a German Film Prize in 1995. My Sweet Home (2001) was his first feature film.- Producer
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Stella Theodoraki is known for Free Subject (2018), From the Unique to the Multiple (1993) and Amnesia Diaries (2012).Ricordi Mi 2008- Director
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Penny Panagiotopoulou is known for Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002), September (2013) and Wishbone (2024).- Producer
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Thanos Anastopoulos was born on 26 October 1965 in Athens, Greece. He is a producer and director, known for The Daughter (2012), Diorthosi (2007) and The Last Resort (2016).Διόρθωση 2007- Director
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Angelos Malliaris is known for Omorfi poli (1973) and Ypothesi Polk (1978).George Polk Affair 1978 (Υπόθεση Πολκ)- Director
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Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in 1978 in Thessaloniki. He grew up in Thessaloniki, Kilkis and the island of Nisyros. His first feature film Homeland premiered at the Venice Critics' Week 201o. His second feature A Blast premiered in competition at Locarno 2014, and his third, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea at the Berlinale Panorama 2019. Acclaimed by the world press and audiences for their distinctive style, bold characterization and strong performances, Tzoumerkas' films have participated in many festivals around the world and have been distributed to theaters and streaming platforms in many countries. His co-direction with Christos Passalis, feature film The City and the City, will have its world premiere at the Encounters Competition of the 72nd Berlinale in February 2022. Syllas Tzoumerkas co-wrote the scripts of Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Suntan (Rotterdam, SXSW, 2016) and Ahmad Ghossein's All This Victory (Venice Critics' Week Award, 2019). He participated as an actor in feature films, shorts and stage performances. He has collaborated with Onassis Stegi, the Greek National Opera, Thessaloniki IFF, the blitz theater group, Youla Boudali and others, in multi-platform and theatrical works. He co-curated with fellow director Elina Psykou, Motherland, I See You - the 20th Century of Greek Cinema, the restoration program and moving festival of the Hellenic Film Academy.Η Έκρηξη (Blast) 2012 Χώρα Προέλευσης- Editor
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Giorgos Georgopoulos is known for Not to Be Unpleasant, But We Need to Have a Serious Talk (2019), Tungsten (2011) and Kuluhiro: Hope (2011).Tungsten 2014