Specializing in multidisciplinary approaches to filmmaking, Yannis works in Athens as a director and producer. After studying fine arts and cinema, he co-founded the cooperative production company Empty Square and directed his debut feature documentary Poems on the Tape-recorder, which won the Newcomer Filmmaker Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Since 2025, he is an alumnus of Sarajevo Talents, Berlinale Talents and Torino Film Lab. He writes poetry and scripts. His work often explores themes of political identity, time travel, and melancholy. His upcoming feature essay film, Searching for Thule (P&P Sarajevo Award), is currently in production.
Rúri Sigríðardóttir Kommata is a multidisciplinary artist. She lives between Reykjavík and Athens and works in film as well as in exhibition installations in museum spaces in Greece and Iceland. Her works (videos and installations) represent a transition between the real and the imaginary. Her collaborations include names such as Pussy Riot (RU), Kling & Bang (ICE), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík Art Museum, Sol LeWitt (USA), Laika Productions (GR), Picky Productions (GR), among others. In cinema, you will find her behind the cameras in production management, while creatively she works within the Art Department / Set Design. She is a permanent collaborator of Empty Square, contributing to the organization, direction, and execution of productions.
Spyros Patsouras is a Berlin-based producer, curator and sales agent working across poetic documentary and independent cinema. His producing credits include the internationally acclaimed Avant-Drag! (IFFRotterdam 2024, dir. Fil Ieropoulos), How to Shoot a Ghost (Venice 2025, dir. Charlie Kaufman) and Uchronia (Berlinale 2026, dir. Fil Ieropoulos). He has also collaborated on projects with artists and filmmakers Shu Lea Cheang, Marianna Simnett, and Yannis Karpouzis. As a sales agent, his work has achieved over 100 international selections at prestigious events such as Berlinale, Sarajevo Film Festival, Raindance, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Trieste Film Festival, and San Francisco Docs, among many others. He is a fellow of the Emerging Leaders Artivism Alliance (PLACE Network) and has collaborated with institutions including the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands) and the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK). Spyros is also developing his first feature as a director, coming in 2027.
Andreas Vakalios was born in Budapest where he spent half of his life’s summers. He shot his first film, a Star Wars parody, at 12. He studied Digital Arts (MFA) at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is a Talents Sarajevo alumnus. In 2020 he received the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Award. He has participated in over 45 international film festivals as a director, he was selected at the Brussels Short Film Festival Oscars® Qualifying, receiving rave reviews and 7 awards, including that of Best Short Greek Film by the Greek Film Critics’ Society for ‘‘Mila‘‘. ‘‘Nikos Karouzos – Poems on the Tape Recorder’’, for which he co-wrote the screenplay, was awarded at the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He works in Athens as a screenwriter and a director.