
Argyris Papadimitropoulos
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Biography
Argyris Papadimitropoulos was born the year the Ramones released their legendary debut album, and this might somewhat explain his punk temperament. After directing two multi-awarded shorts (Pendulum, 2003 and Tender, 2004) and receiving a Berlinale Talent Campus stamp on his film passport, Argyris went on to become the youngest Greek filmmaker to direct a box-office feature hit. Bank Bang, which came out in 2008, went on to become a major commercial and critical hit, with 500.000 BO admissions and rave reviews. The film also won the First Time Director Award from the Hellenic Film Academy. His follow-up, 2011’s Wasted Youth, opened the 40th Rotterdam International Film Festival and has since travelled to more than 40 festivals around the world, such as Toronto, BAFICI, Karlovy Vary, Munich among others. His latest film Suntan (2016) premiered in Rotterdam Film Festival and SXSW's Narrative Spotlight. Right after that Suntan won the best film award in Edinburgh film festival, the youth jury award in Brussels and a nomination for the Lux Prize of the European Parliament. You can catch it in a festival near you and in early 2017 it will reach the US, French, Australian, British, and Korean amongst many more screens worldwide. (World Sales - Visit Films). Argyris is constantly making films and doing whatever he can to shoot projects. Up to this day, Argyris has directed more than 200 commercials, rising to become one of Europe’s top ad directors. He often puts on his producer hat with his own Oxymoron Films, presenting the world with award-winning features such as Berlinale’s sensation At Home (2014). Last but not least, Argyris has no hobbies whatsoever.
Known For

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

Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
Suntan

Electra and Orestes stand accused of murdering their mother. Yet, in present-day Greece, it is not the gods who deliver justice, but mere mortals—seemingly powerless to piece together the truth.
Electra7
The wealthy British Skidmore family and their privileged guests vacation in a pristine Greek island villa where days unfold in a haze of languid afternoons, exquisitely plated meals, infinity pools, designer kaftans, and a cherished tradition of pranks. But when the group’s 'master prank' goes spectacularly wrong, the holiday spirals into chaos.
Oh, How Fun!

Two brothers, the honest Michalis and the swindler Nontas, are forced to resort to bank robberies in order to pay off the latter's entanglements with the mafia. Michalis' love for a secret police officer, a strange couple of her colleagues and Nontas' greed will make things even more complicated.
Βank Bang

The father is unemployed. His son is sick. It is cold outside.
Gas

Three days in the life of a young man in Athens, jobless, without a girlfriend, and without food. His only companion is his canary, and he will share anything he has with it. A modern adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s classic 1890 novel Hunger.
Boy Eating the Bird's Food
A couple on a bed. A short film by Argyris Papadimitropoulos.
Tender

East German Stasi officer Fritz travels to Cuba with orders to thwart a suspected CIA operation against Fidel Castro. In Havana he meets Lola, a young woman who will both endanger his mission, and change the course of his life dramatically.
Comandante Fritz

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Wasted Youth

Nikos, Christine, Homer, George, Regina, Dimitris, Jim, Margaret, Elias, Monika and Haris return from their summer holidays.
Summer Holidays

According to the director: “The film deals with the corrosive effect, on a relatively advanced life, of what psychologists may call ‘the repressed’, while I prefer to concentrate on the beautiful Greek word ‘kaemos’ [καημός, translated as longing, unfulfilled desire]. The most ‘realistic’ and most synoptic… synopsis I can give for the fiction of the film is: ‘A man comes face to face with himself’, but this wording (and here comes the fantasy element) must be read literally.”
Properties Of 2

Phainie Xydis stares at the lens and smokes a cigarette. Phainie Xydis talks and lights up another one. Phainie Xydis loves her friends, boys and girls; she loves life, Themos, and ashtrays full of cigarette butts.
They Sing, They Mate, They Keep on Singing

“Never leave me… because I will hurt you”
Don't Ever Leave Me

Athena lives an urban family life. She's bored. Elsa lives a lonely post-adolescence. She's bored. In a ghost-Athens, some random everyday events become occasions to unite their gaps, their insecurities, their wants and their cans.