Yorgos Zois

Biography

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-aesthet...