Stavros Psyllakis
Known for
Directing
Born
January 30, 1954 (age 72)
Birthplace
Chania, Crete, Greece
Biography
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...
Best known work
Alps
2011
Backdoor
2000
In This Land Nobody Knew How to Cry
2018
There Was No Other Way
2009
The Giraffe
2021
The Light Inside
2016
FAREWELL – The memory of the place
2022
ABEA the congealed time
2002
Debt
2021
Short Roma Stories
2014Filmography
2025
Sculpted SoulsDirector, Writer
2022
FAREWELL – The memory of the placeDirector, Writer, Editor
2021
DebtDirector, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
2021
2020
My photographDirector
2019
FOR NO REASON meetings with Giorgos ManiatisWriter, Director of Photography, Sound, Director
2018
2016
The Light InsideDirector, Writer, Editor
2015
OlympiaDirector, Writer, Sound, Producer
2014
Short Roma StoriesDirector, Writer, Editor
2013
DilemmaDirector
2012
METAXA: listening to timeDirector, Writer, Production Director
2011
Milonogianni 120, ChaniaDirector
2011
Alpsas Nurse's Father
2009
There Was No Other WayDirector, Writer, Producer
2002
ABEA the congealed timeDirector
2000
The Man Who Disturbed the UniverseDirector, Writer
2000
Backdooras Officer