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Nikos Pastras

Born January 11, 1982 · Athens, Greece (age 44)

Nikos Pastras was born in Athens. He is a self-taught filmmaker and has been working in cinema since 2007. He has directed four short films (Theremin, 2008, Lost Girl, 2012, Acrylic, 2016, Melatonin, 2020), television documentaries and commercials. He has edited short films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and feature films. For the feature film Winona by The Boy he received the IRIS awar…

Known For

Gym

MovieDramaComedy

Seventeen monologues about a gym that doesn't exist, about a film that was never shot, about the actors of the film, about the words that made them true characters.

Acrylic

Acrylic · 2017

MovieDramaFantasy

The first sexual experience of a sensitive 16-year-old girl becomes the starting point of an emotional journey towards adulthood and reconciliation through music and its power.

The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

The End of Suffering (A Proposal) · 2020

The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

The Silence of the Dying Fish

The Silence of the Dying Fish · 2018

The Silence of the Dying Fish

MovieFantasyDrama

Makis works at a fish farm. One morning, as he goes to work, he's told he’s dead… since the day before. After trying in vain to prove he's very much alive, all that remains is to accept the situation and find someone who will take care of his canaries before the funeral.

Winona

MovieComedyDrama

Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona"

The Field Guide to Evil

The Field Guide to Evil · 2019

The Field Guide to Evil

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

Sun And Shadow

Sun And Shadow · 2023

There was light and it was brutal. The shadows could not heal. The Boy had fallen into sleep. The Girl was recalling and the sand was everywhere.

Happy Ending

Happy Ending · 2022

MovieDramaRomance

In a diner in the middle of nowhere, three people are searching for a “what if” in their love life. Perhaps in all the wrong places. Perhaps not.

Filmography

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Gym

MovieDramaComedy

Seventeen monologues about a gym that doesn't exist, about a film that was never shot, about the actors of the film, about the words that made them true characters.

Editor

Acrylic

Acrylic · 2017

MovieDramaFantasy

The first sexual experience of a sensitive 16-year-old girl becomes the starting point of an emotional journey towards adulthood and reconciliation through music and its power.

Director

The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

The End of Suffering (A Proposal) · 2020

The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

Title Designer

The Silence of the Dying Fish

The Silence of the Dying Fish · 2018

The Silence of the Dying Fish

MovieFantasyDrama

Makis works at a fish farm. One morning, as he goes to work, he's told he’s dead… since the day before. After trying in vain to prove he's very much alive, all that remains is to accept the situation and find someone who will take care of his canaries before the funeral.

Title Designer

Winona

MovieComedyDrama

Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona"

Editor

The Field Guide to Evil

The Field Guide to Evil · 2019

The Field Guide to Evil

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

Set Photographer

Sun And Shadow

Sun And Shadow · 2023

There was light and it was brutal. The shadows could not heal. The Boy had fallen into sleep. The Girl was recalling and the sand was everywhere.

Title Designer

Happy Ending

Happy Ending · 2022

MovieDramaRomance

In a diner in the middle of nowhere, three people are searching for a “what if” in their love life. Perhaps in all the wrong places. Perhaps not.

Title Designer

They Come Out of Margo

They Come Out of Margo · 2026

They Come Out of Margo

MovieHorrorDrama

All fears, anxieties and hopes are embodied in the character of Margo, a songwriter who was once famous but who now isolates herself in her apartment. A party held to celebrate her 40th birthday and the emotions that are born there unexpectedly help Margo enter a new stage in her life.

Title Designer

Gorgonà

Gorgonà · 2026

Greece. A small, impoverished city-state dominated by a massive refinery—its only source of income: oil. The men, all armed, hold absolute power. Their leader, Nikos, is gravely ill and must arrange his succession. Shock spreads when he includes his protégé, Maria, among the contenders. The fate of this young woman—unaware of the most tragic part of her family’s past—will be turned upside down by the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.

Title Designer

Polydroso

Polydroso · 2024

MovieFamilyComedy

Sophia, the daughter, is returning to the Athenian suburb of Polydroso to take care of Sophia, the mother. Back in her neighbourhood, she will confront the reasons that made her leave in the first place. Polydroso is a mystical isolated suburb and both Sophias spend their time daydreaming about ghosts of the past. A film about tender people in a non-tender world.

Graphic Designer

She Loved Blossoms More

She Loved Blossoms More · 2025

She Loved Blossoms More

MovieHorrorComedy

Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine in this visually decadent, bizarre and altogether mesmerizing head-trip.

Graphic Designer

Xenia

MovieDramaRomance

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Camera Operator

Ready

Boring work leads parliament employees (both elected and otherwise) to play childish power games. When removed from the weight of their historic surroundings, they question their desires and are set free.

Title Designer

Magma

MovieScience Fiction

In a remote island on a distant planet a strange creature is found washed ashore by a woman.

Title Designer

Sad Girl Weekend

Sad Girl Weekend · 2019

Sad Girl Weekend

Best friends from college, Elli, Natasha, and Joe are spending their last weekend together on a getaway at Elli’s summerhouse. Natasha and Jo are leaving to study abroad, something that makes Elli emotional, since she feels that she is being left behind.

Title Designer

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

The Distance Between Us and the Sky · 2019

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.

Title Designer

The Forest

The Forest · 2018

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again?

Editor

When I Smile My Eyes Close

When I Smile My Eyes Close · 2020

When I Smile My Eyes Close

A teenage girl believes she never dreams, or otherwise doesn't remember any of her dreams; apparently, they are too dull to be worth keeping. But in the course of a single day at home, time will pass like a dream. And when she opens her eyes, she will find that her waking life, outside the world of her empty dream state, is a much lovelier place to be in.

Title Designer

The Limousine

The Limousine · 2014

Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos

Editor

Afterlov

Afterlov · 2017

MovieComedyDrama

Summer in Athens. Nikos is a musician with no future who takes care of a villa while the wealthy owner is out. With nothing to do, Nikos decides to invite his ex-girlfriend Sofia over and force her to tell him why they broke up a year earlier.

Graphic Designer

Postcards from the End of the World

Postcards from the End of the World · 2019

Postcards from the End of the World

Trapped in a seemingly dull family vacation, Dimitra, Dimitris and their two daughters will have to find a way out of a secluded island in the Mediterranean, when confronted with the unexpected end of the world.

Title Designer

Defunct

Defunct · 2020

MovieComedyDrama

A 30-something failed businessman moves into his grandpa's house, the defunct WW2 veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy, will redefine both the family hero and himself.

Title Designer

Melatonin

Melatonin · 2020

A small love story about electronic music and sleep disorders.

Writer