The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is delighted to host a Spotlight on Angeliki Papoulia,
a great actress of contemporary Greek cinema. With a rich cinema career and roles in major films
that have travelled to the world’s most important festivals – from Yorgos Lanthimos’s
“Dogtooth” and ”The Lobster” to Mahdi Fleifel’s “To a Land Unknown” – Angeliki Papoulia is currently
one of the most acclaimed international figures in Greek cinema.
Angeliki Papoulia was born in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and theater director.
She is internationally acclaimed for her starring roles in Yorgos Lanthimos’ films “Dogtooth”
– which was nominated for an Oscar – “Alps”, and the director’s first English-speaking
full-length film “The Lobster”, which was nominated for an Oscar award as well. Her career
in cinema also includes many other roles in full-length films, such as “Human Flowers of
Flesh” by Helena Wittmann, “To a Land Unknown” by Mahdi Fleifel, “The Miracle of the
Sargasso Sea” by Syllas Tzoumerkas and “Arcadia” by Yorgos Zois, among others.
She has been a jury member at the international film festivals of Locarno, Sarajevo, Istanbul,
Karlovy Vary and also at the Berlinale.
In 2004, she co-founded the Blitz Theatre Group. She has written, co-directed and acted in all
the group’s performances. The group has presented its theatrical projects in various
European festivals and theaters. Lately, she has co-directed theatrical plays at Luzerner
Theater and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in Switzerland.
The Spotlight films are:
- Dogtooth (remastered) by Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009
- Green Sea by Angeliki Antoniou, 2020
- Arcadia by Yorgos Zois, 2024
“It’s a pleasure for us to host a Spotlight on extraordinary Angeliki Papoulia. She is an
actress with an international career and enormous momentum, and her range of cinematic performances is unique in
contemporary Greek cinema. Our pleasure is double, as she will be by our side throughout the festival,
so that both our audience and we as organizers can enjoy her company,” said Sofia Stavrianidou,
the Festival Director.
Angeliki Papoulia will be present throughout the festival in Berlin for Q&A sessions after the screenings.
About the Festival
The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is Berlin’s Greek film festival founded as Hellas Filmbox Berlin in 2015. The festival offers German and international audiences a unique chance to watch the best of new Greek cinema (or related to Greece) on the big screen. We show 35 to 40 fiction films, documentaries, and shorts, most of which are German or International premieres.
The five-day event takes place every March at the historic Babylon venue in the heart of Berlin. With the attendance of filmmakers, producers, distinguished Jury members, film professionals, artists, and by organizing parallel events, discussions, exhibitions, and networking happenings, the festival has become one of the leading film events in the city. Special thanks go out to our amazing and growing festival audience. The German-Greek Cultural Association organizes the festival.
The German-Greek Cultural Association was founded by German and Greek initiators in Berlin in April 2015 with the aim of supporting and strengthening Greek-German relations through cultural projects like Hellas Filmbox Berlin (2016- 2019), The Greek Film Festival in Berlin (2020 – today), The Greek Film Festival Goes Frankfurt, The Greek Film Festival goes Köln (currently).
The initiators of the German-Greek Cultural Association were artists Asteris Kutulas and Ina Kutulas.
Currently, on the Association’s Board of Directors is Sofia Stavrianidou (Festival Director).
