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Konstantina Kotzamani

Greece

Biography

Konstantina Kotzamani’s short and mediumlength films have premiered in major festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno and have received numerous international awards. For her films Washingtonia (2014), Limbo (2016), and Electric Swan (2019) she has been thrice awarded by the Hellenic Film Academy with the best short film award and twice nominated by the European Film Academy for the best short of the year. Her films have been broadcast on European channels, such as ARTE and FRANCE TV, as well as in Asia and USA, and have been distributed on arthouse platforms like Criterion, MUBI, Cinobo, etc. Moreover, they have been the theme of retrospectives in festivals like BAFICI, Go SHORTS, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, etc. Her most recent medium-length film, What Mary Didn’t Know, a French-Greek-Swedish co-production, which was shot in France and Greece with a Swedish and French- Algerian cast, is currently in post-production. Titanic Ocean is her debut feature film.

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