Stavros Psillakis, born 1954, Chania, Crete. Director of anthropological documentaries.  

 

Studied: 

He first studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and then Film Directing at the Hantzikou Film School (Athens). 

He received a scholarship from the French state to study Anthropological Documentary Filmmaking at the VARAN School in Paris. 

 

Awards:

- 1st Documentary Film Award, There Was No Other Way, (Hellenic Film Academy (2010)]

-  Golden Alexander by the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (2023) for his contribution to the art of documentary.

- FIPRESCI award, Sculpted Souls, Best Greek Documentary Official Selection [27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (2025)].

 

He is a founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy and the Hellenic Documentary Association, and he has worked on films by Lakis Papastathis, Dimos Theos, Stavros Tornes, Yorgos Panousopoulos, Yorgos Tsemperopoulos (as actor), Yorgos Lanthimos (as actor). 

Filmography (documentaries, indicatively): 

The Man Who Disturbed the Universe (2000), There Was No Other Way ( 2009), METAXA listening to time (2012), Short Gypsy Stories (2014), Olympia (2015), The Light Inside (2015), FOR NO REASONS meetings with Yorgos Maniatis (2019), Debt (2021), FAREWELL the memory of the land (2022) and Sculpted Souls (2025).