Yannis Economides

With exquisite black and white photography and set against the backdrop of the Western Suburbs as a rather repulsive place, Economides for the first time lowers the tempo of the dialogues and gives a pessimistic look at the perpetuating model of the comfortable modern Greek. — After the death of his father, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he begins to take care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he is carried through the routine of his misery until his relationship with his aunt changes everything. — Iris Award for Best Film | Hellenic Film Academy | 2011 Iris Award for Best Director | Hellenic Film Academy | 2011

Maintaining his familiar style, but more delightful and poignant than ever, Yannis Economides takes us to a small town in Greece, when erotic passion intersects with greed for money, the corpses start piling up one by one. — A charming woman decides to leave her businessman husband for a nightclub owner and former folk singer. But she doesn't stop there as she takes a million euros with her. The husband misunderstands, and vows revenge. Meanwhile, the underworld of the night, in the small provincial town, goes into a frenzy around the illicit couple. And the icing on the cake: the dreadful mothers of the two brothers won't just sit back and do nothing.

The most explosive debut in Greek cinema of the 21st century, the "tragic comedy of the lives of the dead moving on" according to Economides himself, a unique deconstruction of the middle-class Greek family that begins with a broken air conditioner. — One day, in the middle of a heatwave, the house of Dimitris, a small family man in his 50s, somewhere in Korydallos, turns into a battlefield! All the family members take it out on each other with incredible verbal violence and revelations of passions, jealousies and professional disagreements. Until an unexpected confession blows everything to smithereens. — Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2003

Does the big fish eat the little fish? Beyond its viral quotes and cult status, Economides' most mature and daring creative moment is a modern Greek film noir that claimed the Golden Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. — Stratos works the night shift at a bakery while performing death contracts. He uses the money to arrange Leonidas' escape from prison, wanting to repay his debt to the man to whom he owes his life. — Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2014 Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2014 Bes Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Hellenic Film Academy | 2015

Troubled in its time by the distribution circuit, extremely but unexpectedly pop after years, "Soul Kicking" was the film that showed even more than the others that Economides could create his own unique universe, a cinema that would be hard to find its counterpart in Greece. — Takis is a middle-aged craft worker, divorced, remarried and with a newborn baby. With pressures from everywhere. No one leaves him alone. His wife, his employer, his relatives, his friends. Violence and oppression. Verbal, mental, physical. All against one and God against all. The lit fuse is several yards from the gunpowder. But in the end it reaches it. — Official Selection - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2006