Dimitris Zahos

After studying Computer Science, he pursued a degree from the Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Since then he has worked in film, television and theatrical productions and taught film at High school and University. His graduation film "Penguins" was presented at several national and international festivals getting nominations and awards regarding its original view on social issues of injustice and dignity during the years of crisis. In 2013 he directed the short film "Mission Zeus", a comic observation of a Troika delegate during negotiations about the debt, as part of the project Summer in Athens produced by the Greek Film Center and the International Film Festival of Athens. After that, followed "Australia"(2017) being actually entirely shot in a modern and uncanny airport, a metaphor of the ancient Greek river of the woe, the Acheron, where the newly dead would be ferried to the Underworld. He has directed fiction and documentary shorts, a documentary TV series, designed and directed video projections for theatre performances and video art installations.