Syllas Tzoumerkas

Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in 1978 in Thessaloniki. He grew up in Thessaloniki, Kilkis and Nissyros. His feature films Homeland (2010), A Blast (2014) and The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019), had their world premieres in the Venice, Locarno and Berlin International Film Festivals, respectively, participated in over 200 festivals around the world, and were released in theatres and streaming platforms in many countries. He co-wrote the scripts of Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ Suntan (Rotterdam IFF / SXSW 2016) and All This Victory by Ahmad Ghussein (Venice 2019). In theatre and in multi-platform works, he collaborated with Youla Boudali, the blitz theatre group, the Erasers, Onassis Stegi, the Greek National Opera, and others.