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Nikos Pastras

Nikos Pastras

Directing

Biography

Nikos Pastras was born in Athens. He is a self-taught filmmaker and has been working in cinema since 2007. He has directed four short films (Theremin, 2008, Lost Girl, 2012, Acrylic, 2016, Melatonin, 2020), television documentaries and commercials. He has edited short films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and feature films. For the feature film Winona by The Boy he received the IRIS award of the Hellenic Film Academy. He also works as a graphic designer and illustrator, designing titles and posters for short and feature films, as well as album covers. His first feature film as a director, BASTARDS, was awarded the Silver Alexander at the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

Known For

Gorgonà
N/A

Greece. A small, impoverished city-state dominated by a massive refinery—its only source of income: oil. The men, all armed, hold absolute power. Their leader, Nikos, is gravely ill and must arrange his succession. Shock spreads when he includes his protégé, Maria, among the contenders. The fate of this young woman—unaware of the most tragic part of her family’s past—will be turned upside down by the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.

Gorgonà

2026
They Come Out of Margo
N/A

All fears, anxieties and hopes are embodied in the character of Margo, a songwriter who was once famous but who now isolates herself in her apartment. A party held to celebrate her 40th birthday and the emotions that are born there unexpectedly help Margo enter a new stage in her life.

They Come Out of Margo

2026
The Field Guide to Evil
5.5

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

The Field Guide to Evil

2019
She Loved Blossoms More
6.0

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.

She Loved Blossoms More

2025
BASTARDS
3.8

The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

BASTARDS

2023
The Last Taxi Driver
6.0

Thomas works as a taxi driver by night and he lives with his wife, Maria, and his teenage son, Tassos. When one of his customers commits suicide, Thomas is prompted to confront everything he’s kept buried inside for too long, and realize the shortcomings of his life. When he meets Eleni, his client’s lost daughter, he sees in her a way out of his weary life and becomes romantically obsessed with her.

The Last Taxi Driver

2023
Polydroso
N/A

Sophia, the daughter, is returning to the Athenian suburb of Polydroso to take care of Sophia, the mother. Back in her neighbourhood, she will confront the reasons that made her leave in the first place. Polydroso is a mystical isolated suburb and both Sophias spend their time daydreaming about ghosts of the past. A film about tender people in a non-tender world.

Polydroso

2024
I kori tou Rembrandt
2.5

A lavish mansion hosts a grand reception attended by ambassadors, ministers, the police chief, a techno-detective, a mercenary, and two wandering beauties. A mysterious painting by Rembrandt piques the interest of some of the guests, with the host of the evening, Mr. Malaparte, hiding a priceless artistic treasure inside his home... Or maybe not?

I kori tou Rembrandt

2015
Xenia
6.1

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Xenia

2014
Defunct
8.5

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.

Defunct

2020
Afterlov
7.0

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.

Afterlov

2017
Winona
4.9

Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona"

Winona

2020
Blood Ties
6.1

Margarita works as a flight assistant. Her life is divided between travels and the care of her sick father. When he dies, she decides to make a fresh start to her life. She begins a trip to Northern Greece seeking...

Blood Ties

2012
Kissing?
4.8

Just before turning thirty, Danny and Stella often feel lost and disorientated. This is the chronicle of their relationship that reveals the portrait of their generation with sarcastic humour and sincerity.

Kissing?

2017
Still River
5.5

A Greek couple, Anna (Katia Goulioni) and Petros (Andreas Konstantinou), have recently moved to a small industrial town in Siberia. It’s a long process to adapt, especially for Anna, since Petros is quite occupied with his job. That will cause a conflict between them and inevitably the couple is distanced. Everything is escalated as for the past period there is no sexual intercourse between them. This slow-paced decay is intensified when an unexpected event occurs, changing everything between them. Balancing between trust and disbelief the haunting suspense evolves.

Still River

2019
The Limousine
4.4

Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos

The Limousine

2014
The Forest
6.3

A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?

The Forest

2018
The Distance Between Us and the Sky
6.3

Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

2019
Postcards from the End of the World
5.1

Trapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.

Postcards from the End of the World

2019
Acrylic
4.7

The first sexual experience of a sensitive 16-year-old girl becomes the starting point of an emotional journey towards adulthood and reconciliation through music and its power.

Acrylic

2017