
Aineias Tsamatis
Acting
Biography
Aineias Tsamatis was born in Elbasan, Albania, on November 16, 1984. He graduated from the Modern Music School of Athens (MMS) in 2007 and from Nellie Karra’s Higher School of Dramatic Art ARCHI in 2011. He acts, writes, and directs for cinema and the theater. In 2021, he directed his first short film, “The Crossing,” together with Katerina Mavrogeorgi. In the theater, he has collaborated as an actor with Dimitris Karantzas (“The Persians,” “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “Three Sisters,” “Nephele,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Waves,” “Sladek”), Aris Biniaris (“Wake Up, Vassili”), Ektoras Lygizos (“Hamlet”), Lena Kitsopoulou (“Blood Wedding”), Argyro Chioti (“The Libation Bearers”), Nikita Milivojević’s (“Lucrezia Borgia”), Kostantin Bokomolov (“Demons”), Pantelis Dentakis (“Dear Herbert,” “Penthesilea”) Pantelis Flatsousis (“National Fashion Show”), Natasha Triantafylli (“Waiting for Godot,” “Brothers Karamazov”), Marianna Calbari (“The Island of Slaves”), Efi Gousi (“Cleansed”), Yiannis Skourletis (“STELLA Travel – The Recited Land”), and Takis Tzamarias (“Our Little Town”). In cinema, he has collaborated with Stelios Kammitsis (“Jerks”), Constantina Voulgaris (“A.C.A.B. All Cats Are Brilliant”), Yorgos Zois (“Interruption”), Pantelis Voulgaris (“Little England,” “The Last Note”), Stavros Tsiolis (“Women Who Passed My Way”), Sepideh Farsi (“I Will Cross Tomorrow”), Nicholas Dimitropoulos (“Echoes of the Past”), Thanos Anastopoulos (“Travelling Ghosts”), and Mariano Pensotti (“The Audience”). In television, he has participated in the series “Dark Sea,” “Postcards,” “One Νight in August.”
Known For

Real heroes live among us. Because lies are bad, sometimes you need to be a superhero to get through the week...
Super Heroes

After a devastating fire, three women try to rebuild their lives and pursue their true desires.
Μετά τη Φωτιά

Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
Little England

The heart chooses whom it calls its own child! Using the powerful and sensitive issue of child abuse as its vehicle, the series tells the gripping story of a woman who responds to the silent cries for help of an abused girl. At the same time, it focuses on the moving theme of mother-daughter relationships. Despite the weight of its subject matter, at the core of this compelling drama lies one central idea: love.
Call me mom

A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Echoes of the Past

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
The Last Note

A Greek filmmaker plans to shoot a film, following the footsteps of the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraios. While visiting the cemetery, a small crowd of ghosts of the 18th century personalities decides to follow his path.
Travelling Ghosts

A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.
Interruption

1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man.
Giannis in the Cities

The performance is over, the actors step off the stage, the audience leaves the theater. However,in this case, the end marks the beginning. Eleven spectators star in their own tales, intertwined in a collage crafted by life itself. Restaurant and movie theater owners, immigrants and tourists, regulars and passers-by interact with the urban entourage and the people they come across, weaving a mosaic of endless possibilities.
The Audience

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.
Women Who Passed My Way

A story that takes place in an empty Athens in August, during a 12-hour period, from 6 p.m to 6 a.m. Three friends, Phevos, Andreas and Savvas, stay up all night walking around the streets of Exarchia, for what is their last night before they leave Athens for good and move to Berlin, just like they had agreed one year ago. During the evening, however, hidden aspects of their personalities are gradually revealed and they will face the most violent manifestation of power which will change their plans forever.
Jerks

Pavlos and Leon are two inseparable friends who dream of opening one bar once the war is over. The SS, searching the house, arrest his parents Pavlos not being able to find Leon. The two friends embark on a journey through the forests to reach Thessaloniki. Away from civilization, Paul struggles with his dark side which is slowly awakening.
The dome

The everyday life of a man locked down in a house takes imaginary turns. In times of isolation and deprivation, his mind leaps to the elusive, while he is restrained inside the four walls of his house.
Houseplants

A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.
Crossing

A sexist violence incident fires tension in Danai's friendship with Ilona and Toufa. Torn between theory and practice, the three friends realize that patriarchy won't die with bottles (only), and they now have marks to prove it.
Rouge

On a terrace with the view of the concrete buildings, a plane tree and a little bit from Lycabettus mountain, two young people are flirting with the sense of love. Persistence, fear, and the view of the city will keep them together even for a few minutes. In order to understand what they really want, these few minutes are enough.