Аватар персоны Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

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Christos V. Konstantakopoulos is known for Before Midnight (2013), The Lobster (2015) and Midnight Special (2016).

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Χρήστος Β. Κωνσταντακόπουλος, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos

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Athens, Greece

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Gaucho Gaucho

Gaucho Gaucho

A celebration of a community of Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as Gauchos, living beyond the boundaries of the modern world.
0.0

Year:

2024

Knock at the Cabin

Knock at the Cabin

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
6.3

Year:

2023

The Good House

The Good House

Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts to unravel as she rekindles an old romance and becomes dangerously entwined in one person’s reckless behavior.
6.6

Year:

2022

Prologos

Prologos

A lone writer from Sudan imagines his journey across the landscape of once glorious Greece. He encounters seventeen dogs, an abandoned textile factory, and unexpected hospitality of an old woman. His return home is marked by the incredible; he is no longer a mad wanderer, but a prophet to be.
0.0

Year:

2022

Ballad for a Pierced Heart

Ballad for a Pierced Heart

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.
6.6

Year:

2020

Defunct

Defunct

A 30-something failed businessman moves into his grandpa's house, the defunct WW2 veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy, will redefine both the family hero and himself.
7.0

Year:

2020

Cosmic Candy

Cosmic Candy

When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.
10.0

Year:

2020

The Personal History of David Copperfield

The Personal History of David Copperfield

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
6.4

Year:

2019

Siege on Liperti Street

Siege on Liperti Street

Austerity took everything but the roof over their heads, and today it will come for that too. But this time, they will finally fight back, like a family with nothing left to lose...
5.5

Year:

2019

XY Chelsea

XY Chelsea

The historic story of whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Shot over two years and featuring exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes verité with Manning, the film picks up on the momentous day in May when she leaves prison and follows her through her journey of discovery.
5.9

Year:

2019

Colors & Shadows

Colors & Shadows

A documentary short that explores the distortion of memory in old age, this film follows a man as he retraces the important moments of his life. As he enters his final chapter, it becomes clear that he can no longer separate reality from what he has dreamed of.
0.0

Year:

2019

The Projectionist

The Projectionist

In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrara uses the experience of one longtime cinema owner to chart the vast changes to the city’s theatrical landscape.
6.0

Year:

2019

Her Smell

Her Smell

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
5.8

Year:

2019

Women Who Passed My Way

Women Who Passed My Way

The acclaimed Greek director returns with a bittersweet story about the need for human contact. Two men are hired to keep watch on a home in Athens, where a room is illegally built. They will meet many passers-by, some of whom are in fact building inspectors attempting to catch them in the act.
0.0

Year:

2018

Golden Exits

Golden Exits

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
5.8

Year:

2018

Afterlov

Afterlov

Summer in Athens. Nikos is a musician with no future who takes care of a villa while the wealthy owner is out. With nothing to do, Nikos decides to invite his ex-girlfriend Sofia over and force her to tell him why they broke up a year earlier.
7.0

Year:

2017

Infinity Baby

Infinity Baby

Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble — infants that do not age.
6.2

Year:

2017

The Founder

The Founder

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
7.1

Year:

2016

Kate Plays Christine

Kate Plays Christine

Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.
5.7

Year:

2016

Little Men

Little Men

Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
6.6

Year:

2016

Smac

Smac

Eleni is diagnosed with cancer. After the initial shock she tries to get her life back together.
6.0

Year:

2016

Chevalier

Chevalier

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.
5.7

Year:

2015

7 Chinese Brothers

7 Chinese Brothers

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?
5.3

Year:

2015

Queen of Earth

Queen of Earth

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
5.9

Year:

2015

Norway

Norway

In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.
5.4

Year:

2014

When I Saw You

When I Saw You

Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.
7.1

Year:

2014

Maasai

Maasai

A hospital's quiet waiting area becomes the setting for a confrontation between two brothers as they wait for their mother to come out of surgery.
6.0

Year:

2014

Stratos

Stratos

At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his debt is the only thing that matters to Stratos, everything else is indifferent and he lives detached, surrounded by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…
6.8

Year:

2014

The Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum

A promotional video directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari and narrated by Willem Dafoe about the history and the importance of the Museum Benaki.
0.0

Year:

2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
5.1

Year:

2013

The Foreigner

The Foreigner

A remote Greek village must raise its population in order to avoid being cut off from the local government.
0.0

Year:

2012

The Horsemen of Pylos

The Horsemen of Pylos

Ο Τηλέμαχος, ηθοποιός με ένδοξο παρελθόν και αβέβαιο μέλλον, εγκαταλείπει στα πενήντα του την Αθήνα για να γλυτώσει από τις τράπεζες. Με την βοήθεια του Μπάμπη του «Φου», βρίσκει καταφύγιο σ'ένα ερημωμένο κάστρο στην καρδιά της Μεσσηνίας. Μοναδικοί κάτοικοι δύο αδέρφια που δε μιλιούνται και μια ανηψιά που τους βαρέθηκε κι έφυγε, η Δημοκρατία. Ο Τηλέμαχος την συναντάει τυχαία και μαγεύεται. Λίγο τα σιρόπια του γιατρού για τα πνευμόνια του που έχουν γίνει ορυχείο, λίγο τα τσίπουρα, λίγο οι «απαγορευμένες ουσίες» του Μπάμπη ... οι θεοί βάζουν το χέρι τους κι η Δημοκρατία επιστρέφει στον τόπο της! Όνειρο, πραγματικότητα, ή και τα δυό? Κρίνετέ το εσείς, κι όποιος το βρει κερδίζει ένα παστέλι Καλαμών.
5.7

Year:

2011

Wilder & Me

Wilder & Me

Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.
0.0

Year:

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Harvest

Harvest

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.
0.0

Year:

2025

She Loved Blossoms More

She Loved Blossoms More

Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine in this visually decadent, bizarre and altogether mesmerizing head-trip.
6.0

Year:

2024

exergue – on documenta 14

exergue – on documenta 14

The film follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14. A look behind the scenes of the institutional art world and a consideration of the role of contemporary art in a shifting global landscape.
0.0

Year:

2024

The People We Hate at the Wedding

The People We Hate at the Wedding

A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
6.2

Year:

2022

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter

A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
6.5

Year:

2021

The Invisible Mountain

The Invisible Mountain

"La Montagne Invisible" is an installation conceived as a journey into the infinite : an immersive multi-channel AV installation that transforms the material of a Finnish wanderer's secular pilgrimage towards a utopian summit into an infinite video labyrinth of beginnings, endings and disjunctive in-betweens.
0.0

Year:

2021

Digger

Digger

When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...
7.2

Year:

2021

The Truffle Hunters

The Truffle Hunters

In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.
7.7

Year:

2020

Iskioma

Iskioma

A veterinarian is called in to treat a mysterious disease in a remote farm. He examines the first victim of this disease, a ram, and he advises the owner to put down all his livestock as a precautionary measure. A freak storm, though, forces him to spend the night at the farm.
0.0

Year:

2020

Monday

Monday

A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
6.6

Year:

2020

Siberia

Siberia

Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
5.0

Year:

2020

A Simple Man

A Simple Man

Makis, a peaceful winemaker, lives isolated on a small border island, with his 30-year-old daughter Sophia, after she left her husband’s house. Makis is taken hostage by a dangerous fugitive. He will go beyond his limits in his efforts to prevent his daughter’s involvement with the criminal. Νow he has to face head-on the consequences of his actions.
5.0

Year:

2020

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
7.1

Year:

2018

Pity

Pity

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
6.4

Year:

2018

Song to Song

Song to Song

In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
5.5

Year:

2017

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
6.3

Year:

2017

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
6.9

Year:

2016

Park

Park

Young love blossoms amongst a group of Athenian teenagers during a boisterous summertime idyll, in the raw, romantic and anarchic feature debut from Greek New Wave director Sofia Exarchou. One of the most eagerly awaited films to come out of Greece in recent years, Sofia Exarchou's feature debut is a coming-of-age story that presents a summertime idyll from the perspective of Athenian youths. It allows us to see the fragility they try to conceal, and at the same time shows them to be unwaveringly resilient despite the socio-economic troubles that affect their destinies.
4.8

Year:

2016

Midnight Special

Midnight Special

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
6.2

Year:

2016

The Lobster

The Lobster

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
7.0

Year:

2015

Wednesday 04:45

Wednesday 04:45

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.
6.0

Year:

2015

Forever

Forever

Two people, alone in a desolate city. Costas and Anna in Athens. Costas is an engine driver. The trains he drives travel from one end of the city to the other, following the traces of the ancient rivers that were paved over and made into roads. Anna sells ferry boat tickets at Piraeus, the city’s main harbour, the place where the rivers once flowed into the sea. Costas knows Anna. He sees her every morning, waiting on the platform for his train to take her from Thiseion to Piraeus; and he sees her every afternoon, when his train takes her from Piraeus back to Thiseion. Anna doesn’t know Costas. From the window of the train car she looks out at the same desolate city every day, without knowing who’s driving the train. When something happens to turn Costas’s life upside down, he decides to reach out from inside his solitude and talk to Anna.
5.3

Year:

2014

Love Is Strange

Love Is Strange

After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
6.4

Year:

2014

Listen Up Philip

Listen Up Philip

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
5.8

Year:

2014

After the Fall

After the Fall

Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
4.9

Year:

2014

Only Lovers Left Alive

Only Lovers Left Alive

A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
7.2

Year:

2013

The Last Film

The Last Film

A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to scout locations for his last movie. The Mayan Apocalypse intercedes.
6.5

Year:

2013

24 Frames per Century

24 Frames per Century

This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors contemplating the uncertainty of their future.
5.7

Year:

2013

Before Midnight

Before Midnight

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
7.5

Year:

2013

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
5.3

Year:

2013

L

L

The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.
5.3

Year:

2012

Shooting VS Shooting

Shooting VS Shooting

The film – documentary “Shooting vs Shooting” presents a group of astonishing stories about journalists who were afflicted in the Iraq war, by following a journalist’s journey in Baghdad in 2009 and the story of a mother who seeks for an answer to the question why her son got killed while his only weapon was his camera. “Shooting vs Shooting” narrates incredible moments and adventures, reveals unknown sides to the facts and shows the dramatic stories of media workers who lost their lives, trying to freely broadcast the truth to the public opinion. Through the documentary, we witness the absurdity of war, the responsibilities of governments and armies and the atrociousness of blinded fanatics.
0.0

Year:

2011

Attenberg

Attenberg

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
6.2

Year:

2010

Knifer

Knifer

After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his relationship with his aunt changes everything.
6.3

Year:

2010