Manuel de Coco

Manuel de Coco was born in Athens, Greece. He is a film director and writer, best known for his poetic and transcendental style. He is the founder and festival director of Kimolos International Film Festival in Greece. Manuel de Coco is also well known for travelling to extreme places to explore humanity's relationship with spirituality. His first feature film "Unknown Land" (2012) was filmed in Yemen and in Israel. It has participated in many International Film Festivals (Cairo IFF, Sao Paulo IFF, Andrey Tarkovsky, Film Festival Cologne etc.) and won several awards including the prize for the Best Feature Film "A world towards sustained justice" at New Horizon IIFF, the Best Director Award at Cyprus IFF and at Gothenburg IFF and, finally, the Supporting Mention at FIFOG for the censorship the film has endured. The film has been banned in many countries of the Arab world and in Israel. His second film is the docufiction "Invisible World" (2022), shot over a fifteen-year period in ten countries (Tibet, Mongolia, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Vatican City, Nepal and India). The film has been banned in China. Currently he is developing the feature film "This is Hell".