YORGOS TSEMBEROPOULOS

Born in Athens, studied economics at the ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINNESS while working as a still photographer, then studied directing at the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE in Los Angeles, where he lived and worked until ’81. In Athens, in ’87, he founded FILMIKI PRODUCTIONS sa, where he produces commercials and features. Board Member of the GREEK FILM CENTER and member of the Jury of Thessaloniki Film Festival, in ’92. Founding member of the GREEK DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS’ GUILD, and Vice-President of the Board of Directors of GREENPEACE HELLAS.

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BACK DOOR (2000)

Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history...

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TAKE CARE (1990)

Christos, 22, wants to become famous and make money. But it is Michalis, Marina's husband and Fanny's father, who has the money. Marina, 45, has sacrificed herself for the family but now her heart flutters again. Fanny, 18, falls in love with him but Roula, his hot-blooded girlfriend plays it tough. Small dramas played out daily in a futile test tube where needs, dreams and passions stir together.

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SUDDEN LOVE (1984)

Eleni, 33, is a would-be dancer, a married woman leading an uneventful life. Grigoris, 40, is a successful economist, a career man living in Paris and feeling nostalgia for Athens and his boyhood years. When the two of them meet, they feel a sudden love for each other, a love that thrills them and threatens their quiet lives. Their love takes them to Lisbon, and perhaps even further.

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MEGARA (1974)

1973: the destruction of the ancient olive grove of Megara in order to build an oil-refinery and the uprising of the villagers against this ecological disaster caused by the military Junta's decision to expropriate their rich land, was recorded with powerful cinematic language, in one of the most important documentary films of contemporary cinema, in 35mm.

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