Yorgos Lanthimos
1973 (51 год)Lanthimos began his career in experimental theatre before directing his first film, My Best Friend (2001). He gained international recognition with the psychological drama Dogtooth (2009), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He transitioned to English-language films with The Lobster (2015), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, followed by the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).
Lanthimos is known for his collaborations with actress Emma Stone, particularly in the films The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and Kinds of Kindness (2024). He received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture for The Favourite and Poor Things, and won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for Poor Things.
Born in Pagrati, Athens, Lanthimos is the son of Eirini, a shop owner, and Antonis Lanthimos, a former basketball player for Pagrati BC and the Greek national team. After an injury ended his own basketball career, Lanthimos studied film and television directing at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos in Athens.
Lanthimos married Greek-French actress Ariane Labed in 2013. The couple lived in London until 2021 and now primarily reside in Athens.
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos
Э́мма Сто́ун, Willem Dafoe
Bella Baxter is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.
Poor Things
Untitled Greek National Opera Project
Yorgos Lanthimos
Э́мма Сто́ун, Damien Bonnard
A black and white silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.
Bleat
The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Э́мма Сто́ун
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
The Favourite
The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos
Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
The Lobster
Dogtooth
Yorgos Lanthimos
Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Dogtooth
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos
Э́мма Сто́ун, Jesse Plemons
Kinds of Kindness (2024) weaves together the stories of several individuals in a city, all connected by acts of kindness. The film explores how these small, thoughtful gestures can have a profound impact on people's lives, leading to personal growth and stronger community bonds. Each character's journey highlights the transformative power of compassion and empathy, illustrating how simple acts can create meaningful change.
Kinds of Kindness
Attenberg
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Ariane Labed, Evangelia Randou
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
Attenberg
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Franco Maresco, John Akomfrah
Bernardo Bertolucci, Haile Gerima
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Ο Καλύτερός Μου Φίλος
Yorgos Lanthimos, Lakis Lazopoulos
Lakis Lazopoulos, Antonis Kafetzopoulos
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue.
My Best Friend
