Elina Psykou

Elina Psykou

Personal Info

  • Name:

    Elina Psykou

  • Birthday:

    1977-03-08

  • Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
  • Gender:

    Female

  • Know For:

    Directing

  • Popularity: 0.0071
  • Also Known As

    Elina Psikou

Elina Psykou

Biography

Elina Psykou is a director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Athens in 1977. He studied film directing at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School and Sociology at Panteion University.

Her first feature film, "The eternal return of Antonis Paraskevas", was awarded in the Works in Progress section of Karlovy Vary IFF 2012 and had its world premiere at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival. In the same year Variety magazine highlighted her as one of the "10 European Directors to Watch" while in 2014 she received the debut director award[6] of the Hellenic Film Academy.

Her second feature film, The Son of Sophia, participated as a script in the Berlinale Residency 2013 and had its world premiere in the international competition section of the 2017 Tribeca festival, where it won the award for best fiction film. In 2018, The Son of Sophia won 5 awards from the Hellenic Film Academy, including those for best film, direction and screenplay.

She is currently preparing her first documentary, Stray Bodies, her third feature fiction film, Hereditary Fears and Other Cases (participating in the Berlinale co-production market 2019) and is completing the production of the scripted feature film Flock of Sheep and directed by Dimitris Kanellopoulos.

In 2009, she founded her own production company, Jungle Films, and in 2016, together with directors Alexis Alexiou, Yiannis Vesleme and cinema historian Aphrodite Nikolaidou, they created the group The Lost Avenue of Greek Cinema, with the aim of promoting variety and the charm of Greek Cinema.

Top Movie Cast

A General's Widow
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2008-09-15

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Leaving
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2005-09-12

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Norway
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5.4

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Holy Emy
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Summer Holidays
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False Alarm
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The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
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2013-07-07

4.8
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
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The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
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Boy Eating the Bird's Food
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6.2
Homo Perfectus
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Son of Sofia
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6.9
Stray Bodies
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