Panos H. Koutras

Films in our catalogue

DODO

In their luxurious villa near Athens, Mariella and Pavlos, a couple on the brink of financial ruin, are about to celebrate the long-awaited wedding of their daughter Sofia to a wealthy heir. Then, a dodo, a bird that became extinct 300 years ago, appears, (...)

XENIA

After the death of their mother, Dany, 16, leaves Crete to join his older brother, Odysseas, who lives in Athens. Born from an Albanian mother and a Greek father they never met, the two brothers, strangers in their own country, decide to go to Thessaloniki (...)

Biography

Born in Athens, Panos H. Koutras studied filmmaking at the London Film School and at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1985 to 1995, he kept going back and forth between both cities and made several short films screened in festivals throughout the world. In 1995, he founded in Athens his own production company, 100% Synthetic Films, and started writing his first feature film, The Attack of the Giant Moussaka, an “unidentified filmic object” released 4 years later, quickly achieving cult status. He made a complete turnaround with his second film, Real Life, a drama which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the National Critics Award in Greece in 2004. His third film, Strella, was selected in the Panorama section of the 2009 Berlin Film Festival and in many other international festivals. Xenia, his fourth feature film, was selected at Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2014. Dodo is his fifth feature.