Yorgos Zois

Known for DirectingBorn 1982-10-14 (age 43)Athens, Greece

Yorgos Zois is a Greek director born in 1982 and based in Athens. He studied applied Math & Nuclear Physics at the NTUA and film direction at UdK Berlin. He started his career working as an assistant director to Theo Angelopoulos and with a scholarship from Costa Gavras. His body of work—four shorts and two feature films—has been selected at A-festivals worldwide (Cannes—Semaine de La Critique, Berlinale—Encounters, Venice—Orizzonti, Rotterdam, Telluride, etc.) and has been acknowledged with numerous awards and distinctions worldwide including a European Film Academy nomination. In Greece, he has won the Best Short Film Director and the Best Newcomer Feature Film Director awards from the Hellenic Film Academy. His films have raised internationally acclaimed reviews about their meta-aesthetics and daring narration and have been broadcasted by ARTE, CANAL+, etc., and prestigious platforms like Criterion. He was also a member of the official Jury “Lion of the Future” at the 74th Venice IFF. His second feature film, “Arcadia,” premiered in Berlinale 2024, won the Best Male Actor award in Hong Kong IFF, the Best Director award in Sarajevo IFF, and was included in the final list of the EFA nominations, while the festival tour goes on.Read more

Movies & web series

Saint Paisios: From Farasa to Heaven

Luger

Mare Nostrum

Arcadia

Olive Land

Casus Belli

Interruption

Limbo

Alps

Impressions of a Drowned Man

Third Kind

Touch Me

Poliorkia

8th Continent

Out of Frame

Washingtonia

Deconstructing Interruption

Yellow Fieber