Ektoras Lygizos

He started out making short films—“Interior with woman peeling apples” (State Award, 2002) and “Pure Youth” (Venice Film Festival 2004)—before directing his first work for the theater, Gary Owen’s “The drowned world” (Amore, 2005).

He has staged nearly twenty plays, including works by Aeschylus, Euripides, Beckett, Chekhov, Ibsen, Verdi, Jarry, Koumendakis, Walsh and Matesis at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the National Theater of Greece, the Greek National Opera, the Athens Festival, the National Theater of Northern Greece, Notos Theater Company (Amore Theater), Neos Kosmos theater, Bios and elsewhere.

With his first feature-length film, “Boy eating the bird’s food” (2012), he took part in over 50 international festivals, receiving 15 awards and distinctions, including Best Film from the Greek Film Academy. The film is a loose adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s novel “Hunger” and was filmed in down-town Athens (Exarcheia and Kypseli) in just one month.

Quoting the director: “It’s good that the Greeks are embracing, in their own way, the farce of the jester, of the most extreme drama queen. After all, that’s our fascination” (Source: www.lifo.gr)