Yiota Festa
Acting
Biography
Giota Festa (Athens, 1957) is a Greek film, theatre and television actress. She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied with a scholarship at the Drama School of the National Theatre and then two years of theatre and cinema in Manchester. She has two daughters with her partner Philippos Koutsaftis (director/cinematographer).
Known For
Two young people from opposing families fall in love and reawaken the vendetta from years ago in a mountain village in Crete.
Sasmos
The sea has the power to unite, but also the cruelty to separate people forever. A country like Greece, with the sea and boat trips written in its DNA from ancient times to today.
To Navagio
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Ο Τιμωρός
Autumn 2015. Profoundly affected by the picture of a little boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, lifeguards Oscar and Gerard travel to Lesbos (Greece). Once there, the reality is horrific: thousands of people risk their lives every day, crossing the sea in precarious boats and fleeing from armed conflicts. But nobody bothers to rescue them. With Esther, Nico and other members of the team, they will fight to do what they came to do, helping those who need it. For all of them, this initiation voyage will become a life-changing odyssey. Mediterráneo is the struggle to survive in the sea, an often hostile medium where every life counts.
Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea
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Thymata eirinis
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Βαθύ κόκκινο
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Zone Defence
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Ston asterismo tis gravatas
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Agria paidia
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Prodosia
The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.
Welcome to 'All Saints
An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.
Roza of Smyrna
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Balkanisateur
In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies and is reborn, living two lives in a world that is rapidly changing.
Crystal Nights
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
During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.
Revanche
Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...
The Woman Is... A Tough Person
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Babalou
A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's electrician and a distant aunt, which will land her from myths and dreams to reality.
The Scent of Violets
Two years after the establishment of the junta of the colonels, a resistance fighter leaves for Sweden. After 14 years of exile, the return to Greece is painful. His girlfriend has been married, while his friends have completely changed.