Lena Kitsopoulou

Actress

Athens, Greece

Biography

Lena Kitsopoulou was born in Athens in 1971 and graduated from the Art Theater Drama School in 1994 and has since worked as an actress in the theater and the cinema. Her first collection of short stories, "Bats" (Kedros Publishers) came out in 2006 and won the Debut Author Prize of the Diavazo magazine. Two more short story collections have followed since, "Big Roads" and "Fish Eye" (both from Metechmio Publications) as well as the novella "M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A.", initially written as a monologue for…

Filmography

6.2

Beckett

Female Shooter

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

6.7

Ballad for a Pierced Heart

Vivi

In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.

8.7

Absent

Κατερίνα

Another great success by Mirella Papaikonomou, which outlines in the most dramatic way the catalytic power of absence. The series is filmed, for the most part, in enchanting locations in Crete. The messes at his daughter's wedding party hide his plans. In the wake of the mantinades, Sifis packs his things and says goodbye to his wife after 22 years of marriage. The closed society of Chania is in uproar. And as she desperately demands "purification", his wife will search for the reasons that led Sifis to this decision. And while he is absent, Stathis, his close childhood friend, stands by his wife's side. Can the absence of a loved one prove worse than his presence? And how catalytic can this absence prove to be for people's relationships and emotions?

6.9

Pari

Nawal

Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. All their attempts to find a clue that might lead them to him prove to be in vain and they soon reach a dead end. But Pari can't give up looking for him, even when returning to Iran seems like her only choice. Following the steps of her rebellious son in the darkest corners of the city, she will exhaust her inner strength to achieve more than a mother's search for her missing son.

5.7

Think it Over

Anthoula

All indications were that Maraki was made for great things, for honor and distinctions. And yet contrary to all expectations our heroine cops out. She refuses to take the university entrance exams is left behind in the country town selling fruit tarts. No one can figure out how come that whiz kid got left behind. Neither can anyone understand why Maraki isn't mad at fate for having wronged her so flagrantly. How does she manage to be so creative and optimistic, ready to do battle with the everyday injustices of life wherever the may appear? She appears to understand something that all the others ignore.

4.7

Park

Dimitris' Mother

Ten years after the 2004 Olympic Games, a group of boys live among the abandoned sports facilities of the Olympic Village in Athens. The boys stroll among the ruins, setting up games and organizing dog matings to make money. Dimitris and Anna try to escape from the Village and direct themselves towards the tourist hotels of the southern suburbs. As their adventures continue and the two children enter the tourists' lives, Dimitris' desire for acceptance will be tested in a violent way.

4.5

Where We Live

Lilly

On a day when downtown Athens is experiencing yet another ordinary upheaval, young lawyer Antonis Spetsiotis is celebrating his birthday. However, his birthday will unfold in a completely unexpected way, taking him from the courts of Evelpidon to glamorous cafés and dark parking lots on the National Road, from his tidy bachelor pad in Lycabettus to farmhouses in Chalkoutsi and luxurious villas in Aliartos – and will end unpredictably at dawn in Athens.

7.7

Earth and Water

Elena

Nicolas is a shepherd. He is around twenty years old, thin and spirited. Constantina is eighteen years old. Constantina fell in love with Nikolas the very first time she saw him with his lyre at the bull sacrifice ritual. She entered the whirlpool of ecstasy and became his lover. Their relationship was clearly physical, all other things were setting them apart. Constantina decides that they should break up. "We come from different places and head in different directions", she says. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she does not tell Nikolas.

4.5

Liubi

Anna

An engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman. Liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. Dimitris, the son of the family and Liubi eventually fall in love. Their love will be tested by the social racism that surounds the origins of the girl.

N/A

Playing Parts

Antonina

A group of friends decide to marry

4.5

Parees

Lina

Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.

6.9

No Sympathy for the Devil

Euridice

A modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice. A romance in extremes set at a dystopian future by the acclaimed Greek director Dimitri Athanitis. Provocative, already a cult film. After being released from prison, Eurydice gets a job as a waitress but also as a naked model for a mysterious photographer who blackmails her. Orpheus, a cashier at a super market meets her by chance and falls for her at once. When he loses her, he shall travel all the way to hell, to get her back. Dimitri Athanitis's take on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth is stylish and sexy. Lena Kitsipoulou is totally magnetic for her fellow characters and the viewer.

5.0

The Gaze Adventure

"The Gaze Adventure" is simultaneously an essay film and a fiction film. that approaches the multiple function of the gaze as a main element of the cinematic world, and as a carrier of the cinematic journey.

4.0

Ketchup

A long-standing quarrel between an elderly father and his middle-aged daughter, a divorced mother of two children.

8.2

-1

Eleni

It's summertime in Athens and everything seems grey except for the fuchsia pink hair of lovestruck 15-year-old Elsa.

N/A

LALKA

A short film depicting the everyday life of Lalka mountainous settlement, where humans and animals’ instincts live freely and in harmony with their nature.

N/A

Love sets it on fire

The film is about Panos, a former child prodigy of cinema, who now lives forgotten in Exarchia with his best friend, Ermolaos, envisioning his big comeback. For pocket money, he walks Mrs. Ioulia's dog, who also uses it as bait to awkwardly flirt with passing girls. When Ermolaos encourages him to talk to a psychologist about the issues that concern him, things will turn upside down...

N/A

The Wolves Return

An otherworldly white landscape, a road strewn with bones, and a secret that everyone knows yet tries to conceal. A story of a society sinking into moral emptiness.

7.0

Fake News

Anna

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