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Greek-Colombian director and screenwriter Spiros Stathoulopoulos debuted his new film, Cavewoman, in Greece last month. Cavewoman is an adaptation of the play Electra, by Euripides. The plot follows the revenge-driven mission of a female resistance fighter to assassinate her own...

Kostas Kazakos, a prominent Greek actor, director, and politician, died on Tuesday in Athens. He was eighty-seven years old. Kazakos, born on May 29, 1935 in Pyrgos, Ilia, studied at the Drama School of "Theatro Technis" under the supervision of...

Ken Loach, the acclaimed filmmaker, twice the winner of the Palm D'Or at the Cannes film festival, has been honored by the Greek University of West Attica for his work known to raise awareness on social issues. Loach was awarded...

Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos is producing and directing a new film titled "Poor Things", starring Mark Ruffalo and Emma Stone. Lanthimos has previous collaborated with Stone in his critically acclaimed movie "The Favourite". In fact, Stone was nominated for an Academy...

Following the ten Academy Awards nominations (and one win) for his movie “The Favourite”, Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos is returning to cinemas with a short film called "Nimic". The new, twelve-minute-long film is a thriller, which Lanthimos co-wrote with Greek screenwriter...

Greek film director and screenwriter Stavros Tsiolis died early on Tuesday in Athens, according to a post his family shared on Facebook. He was 82 years of age. Tsiolis, best known in Greece for his film "Women Can Wait," was a...

Acclaimed Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos will be among the members of this year's jury for the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, the event organizers announced on Monday. Lanthimos will be one of the four male members of the eight-member...

Haroula Rose, a multi-talented Greek-American writer, actor, and singer/songwriter from Chicago, has just directed her first feature film. The movie, titled "Once Upon A River," is set to premiere on May 10 at the Bentonville Film Festival. The prestigious Bentonville...

By Aspasia Zontanou, Düsseldorf Award-winning director Dimos Abdeliodis presented his film "The Four Seasons of The Law” (“I Earini Synaxis Ton Agrofylakon”) last Thursday at the at the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf's own movie theater "Black Box", Germany. The director followed that up...

Greek director Costa-Gavras will receive an award for lifetime achievement at this year's European Film Awards. The legendary filmmaker who directed classics such as "Missing", "Z", "Music Box" and "Betrayed", will be honored by the European Film Academy at the...