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Yiota Festa

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

Victims of Peace
8.0

Vasilis Vasilikou's important book is being dramatized for Mega. A story about young people and their dreams, which has a lot to say today. Five boys, friends among themselves, trapped in the dead ends of their generation, seek, each separately and all together, an escape from everyday life, a window into a dream. A girl appears in their lives and acts as a catalyst. She has a vision, she has faith, she has courage and she dares to dream. Their common path and their contradictions give a different meaning to their lives, although they often bring them to their limits. Together they decide to follow a vision that seems impossible to realize, but which they believe in. Because they need to believe in something important, in a great act, in a national idea. Following their vision, our heroes are involved in an adventure with a tragic ending and unexpected consequences for all of them...

Victims of Peace

1999Series
Welcome to 'All Saints
6.3

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

2011Movie
The Cistern
6.1

In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that the world of grown-ups, with its loves, passions, prejudices and curses, is about to seal their fate. Aaron, Stelios, Sakis, Galanos and Verios, "the acrobats", are best friends. School has closed for the summer holidays and the children spend their time playing games, running errands, and riding their bikes. Life is a game, into which they channel all their physical energy and imagination. They practice their diving abilities in a big cistern. It is a game through which their special talents and competitive spirit unfold. One is good at balancing acts, another at diving and another at somersaults. It is in this neighborhood that Aaron will spend the most important summer of his life: a rite of passage from childhood to adolescence, a time for learning about love, jealousy and friendship.

The Cistern

2001Movie