Romanna Lobach

Romanna Lobach was already acting in films at 11 years old and by 2013 she had graduated from Athens Conservatoire Drama School with a B.A. in acting. She has performed in over 25 feature films and shorts that have premiered in festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam, and New York, among others, winning awards at festivals in Greece and abroad for some of her most recent work; Olla (Ariane Labed, 2019), I don't want to forget anything (Vaggelio Soumeli 2021) and March 4 (Dimitris Nakos, 2015). Her work at the McCann advertising agency as a copywriter and also working for various production companies in a multitude of different posts, equipped her with invaluable experience and training. In 2018, she founded AKRAN Creative Company, a boutique production house where as a producer and creative director she's developing multiple projects with emerging directors of bold and unique voice. The past two years, she attended European Short Pitch, Torino Short Film Market, Brussels Co-Production Forum and Crossroads Co-Production Forum at Thessaloniki IFF with projects in development, while she has finished 9 films in two years, with the most recent of Manolis Mavris, Midnight Skin, which premiered in 62nd Semaine de la Critique in Cannes 2023. Romanna is an alumna of Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents, Locarno Industry Days and New Producers Room in Cannes Court Métrage, spotlit producer at Marche du Film 2023 and a member of the Hellenic Film Academy and Hellenic Producer's ...

Roz (2007)

Vassilis Galis is a young man having trouble growing up. His mother was diagnosed with cancer when he was a boy but she got better. Subsequently her vision of life was changed radically and she left her family to embark on new adventures. Vassilis hasn’t seen her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Voulgaris
CAST:  Alexander Voulgaris  •  Romanna Lobach  •  Argiris Thanasoulas  •  Angeliki Karistinou

Vassilis Galis is a young man having trouble growing up. His mother was diagnosed with cancer when he was a boy but she got better. Subsequently her vision of life was changed radically and she left her family to embark on new adventures. Vassilis hasn’t seen her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexander Voulgaris
CAST:  Alexander Voulgaris  •  Romanna Lobach  •  Argiris Thanasoulas  •  Angeliki Karistinou

Generator (2013)

Savvas, a fifty-five-year old man, witnesses the gradual collapse of everything that he has been building his whole life. Why did things go so wrong? What can be done now? People around his shop are constantly changing. He worries about his daughter’s future. “As ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nikoleta Leousi
CAST:  Manolis Mavromatakis  •  Fokion Bogris  •  Vasilis Anastasiou  •  Kostas Gerampinis

Savvas, a fifty-five-year old man, witnesses the gradual collapse of everything that he has been building his whole life. Why did things go so wrong? What can be done now? People around his shop are constantly changing. He worries about his daughter’s future. “As ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nikoleta Leousi
CAST:  Manolis Mavromatakis  •  Fokion Bogris  •  Vasilis Anastasiou  •  Kostas Gerampinis

Pari (2020)

Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Siamak Etemadi
CAST:  Melika Foroutan  •  Shahbaz Noshir  •  Sofia Kokkali  •  Lena Kitsopoulou

Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn't show up to welcome his visiting parents at the Athens airport. Pari and her older husband, both devout Muslims abroad for the first time, are ill-prepared to search for their son in an intimidating and alien environment. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Siamak Etemadi
CAST:  Melika Foroutan  •  Shahbaz Noshir  •  Sofia Kokkali  •  Lena Kitsopoulou

Rouge (2019)

A sexist violence incident fires tension in Danai's friendship with Ilona and Toufa. Torn between theory and practice, the three friends realize that patriarchy won't die with bottles (only), and they now have marks to prove it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kostis Theodosopoulos
CAST:  Panagiotis Koronis  •  Sofia Kokkali  •  Sissy Toumasi  •  Romanna Lobach

A sexist violence incident fires tension in Danai's friendship with Ilona and Toufa. Torn between theory and practice, the three friends realize that patriarchy won't die with bottles (only), and they now have marks to prove it.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kostis Theodosopoulos
CAST:  Panagiotis Koronis  •  Sofia Kokkali  •  Sissy Toumasi  •  Romanna Lobach

Olla (2019)

After answering an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women, Olla leaves Ukraine and heads to French suburbia to move in with Pierre, who lives with his elderly mother. However, the suburbia cannot temper her desires, and nothing goes as expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Labed
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Grégoire Tachnakian  •  Jenny Bellay  •  Gall Gaspard

After answering an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women, Olla leaves Ukraine and heads to French suburbia to move in with Pierre, who lives with his elderly mother. However, the suburbia cannot temper her desires, and nothing goes as expected.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Labed
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Grégoire Tachnakian  •  Jenny Bellay  •  Gall Gaspard

Anna and Phaedra (2019)

Anna is a 30-year-old actress who strives to be looked at while Phaedra is a woman of similar age who doesn't know what it means to look or to be looked at, as she was born blind. When they will meet for the needs of a theatre role their encounter will catapult ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elina Panik
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Effi Rabsilber

Anna is a 30-year-old actress who strives to be looked at while Phaedra is a woman of similar age who doesn't know what it means to look or to be looked at, as she was born blind. When they will meet for the needs of a theatre role their encounter will catapult ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Elina Panik
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Effi Rabsilber

Moonlight (2009)

An ill teenager believes that he can live normally. He meets a girl. They are both fans of the music group "Mesecina".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sofia Exarchou
CAST:  Yiannis Papadopoulos  •  Romanna Lobach  •  Michalis Sarantis

An ill teenager believes that he can live normally. He meets a girl. They are both fans of the music group "Mesecina".  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sofia Exarchou
CAST:  Yiannis Papadopoulos  •  Romanna Lobach  •  Michalis Sarantis

Automatic (2019)

Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emma Doxiadi
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Katerina Zisoudi

Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emma Doxiadi
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Katerina Zisoudi

Yawth (2018)

Yawth is a story about the social media generation. On a typical Friday night Vicky wants to reach the party her crush is going to, but the night does not go as planned.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dimitris Tsakaleas  •  Lida Vartzioti
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Vicky Maidanoglou  •  George Lentzas  •  Ioanna Digenaki

Yawth is a story about the social media generation. On a typical Friday night Vicky wants to reach the party her crush is going to, but the night does not go as planned.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dimitris Tsakaleas  •  Lida Vartzioti
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Vicky Maidanoglou  •  George Lentzas  •  Ioanna Digenaki

Tailor (2020)

A coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn't quit fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family's tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange bricolage coach-a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sonia Liza Kenterman
CAST:  Dimitris Imellos  •  Tamila Koulieva  •  Stathis Stamoulakatos  •  Thanasis Papageorgiou

A coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn't quit fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family's tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange bricolage coach-a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sonia Liza Kenterman
CAST:  Dimitris Imellos  •  Tamila Koulieva  •  Stathis Stamoulakatos  •  Thanasis Papageorgiou

Rakushka (2004)

A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fotini Siskopoulou
CAST:  Kostas Kalokairinos  •  Milana Youssoupova  •  Irina Boiko  •  Vangelis Mourikis

A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fotini Siskopoulou
CAST:  Kostas Kalokairinos  •  Milana Youssoupova  •  Irina Boiko  •  Vangelis Mourikis

I Don't Want to Forget Anything (2020)

Marialena is on the phone with Magda. The two sisters are on their way to the funeral of their mother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vaggelio Soumeli
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Marina Argyridou

Marialena is on the phone with Magda. The two sisters are on their way to the funeral of their mother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vaggelio Soumeli
CAST:  Romanna Lobach  •  Marina Argyridou

Midnight Skin (2023)

Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, is trapped every night in the same obsessive nightmare. She dreams she turns into a tree. While stuck to a lonely everyday routine she realises that her nightmare goes beyond the imaginary and gradually ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manolis Mavris
CAST:  Dimitris Kitsos  •  Alexandros Logothetis  •  Katerina Zisoudi  •  Romanna Lobach

Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, is trapped every night in the same obsessive nightmare. She dreams she turns into a tree. While stuck to a lonely everyday routine she realises that her nightmare goes beyond the imaginary and gradually ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Manolis Mavris
CAST:  Dimitris Kitsos  •  Alexandros Logothetis  •  Katerina Zisoudi  •  Romanna Lobach