Director
Stavros Psyllakis
72 years · Chania, Crete, Greece · 15 films
Stavros Psyllakis (Chania, January 30, 1954) is a Greek director and producer of anthropocentric documentaries that usually focus on borderline situations of human existence. He has been honored with awards in Greece and abroad, with the most important being the 1st Documentary Award of the Hellenic Film Academy in 2010 for the documentary THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY. He is considered one of the pioneers in Greece in the anthropocentric documentary, with a rich work of over 40 films, in which the films stand out: THE MAN WHO DISTURBED THE UNIVERSE, THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY, METAXA listening to time, OLYMPIA, SMALL STORIES ROMA, TO MESA FOS as well as the trilogy "ODES TO EXISTENCE" which includes the films GIA CHORIS GHORIS GOUOUS meetings with Giorgos Maniatis, OFEILI, APOCHERETISMOS the memory of the place He is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy (H.E.A.K.) and the Hellenic Documentary Association (H.E.N.).
Best known for
Filmography 15
Sculpted Souls
2025 · Director, Writer
FAREWELL – The memory of the place
2022 · Director, Writer
Debt
2021 · Director, Writer
The Giraffe
2021 · Actor
My photograph
2020 · Director
The Light Inside
2016 · Director, Writer
Olympia
2015 · Director, Writer
Short Roma Stories
2014 · Director, Writer
METAXA: listening to time
2012 · Director, Writer
Milonogianni 120, Chania
2011 · Director
Alps
2011 · Nurse's Father
On Kanopy
There Was No Other Way
2009 · Director, Writer
ABEA the congealed time
2002 · Director
The Man Who Disturbed the Universe
2000 · Director, Writer
Backdoor
2000 · Officer