Elena Topalidou
Elena Topalidou was born in Athens. She studied dance at the State School of Orchestral Art and piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. As a dancer she was a key member of the OKTANA dance theater from 1993 to 2005 and participated in all its productions. She also collaborated with Dimitris Papaioannou and the Ground Team, the National Theatre, the State Theater of Northern Greece, the Rootless root group, etc. As an actor, she collaborated with the National Theatre, KTHBE, the Athens Festival, the House of Letters and Arts, etc. directed by Michael Marmarinou, Nikos Karathanos, Lefteris Vogiatzis, Lydias Koniordou, Kostantin Bogomolov, Akylla Karazisi, etc. In the cinema, she participated in Greek short and feature films. In 1999, she was awarded the prize for the best female performance for the performance The Lady with the Camellias, choreographed by Kostantinos Rigos. In 2020, she won the first female performance award for the short film Bella by Thelgia Petrakis. In 2022, she received the first female performance award at the Iris Awards of the Cinema Academy for the film Magnetic Fields by George Gousis. She has been teaching classical ballet at the National Opera School since 2011.
Dying in Athens (2006)
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to ... (more)
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to ... (more)
Interruption
(2016)
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying ... (more)
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying ... (more)
Birds (Or How to Be One)
(2020)
Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps. (more)
Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps. (more)
Bella (2020)
Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and ... (more)
Just before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, at the end of the Cold War. Everything is changing in front of Anthi’s eyes and Christos seems to be changing too. Bella is the story of a moment in time recreated as if in a feverish dream where fiction and ... (more)
The Forest (2018)
A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again? (more)
A group of people in a dystopian future is led through the last forest in existence. Plants? What were they again? (more)
Moon, 66 Questions
(2022)
Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him. Resentful of the tasking as she grew up estranged from her father, she ... (more)
Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and she must return home to Athens to care for him. Resentful of the tasking as she grew up estranged from her father, she ... (more)
The Rape of Chloe (1995)
This short film adapted from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe". The pirates chasing Chloe, the capture and rape. The Bryaxis, their leader, obliges to dance for him. The syringe comes to free her…forever. (more)
This short film adapted from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe". The pirates chasing Chloe, the capture and rape. The Bryaxis, their leader, obliges to dance for him. The syringe comes to free her…forever. (more)
Ecdysis (2021)
In a near-future world ravaged by environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina carries her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But Aris’s infection proves extremely aggressive and Lina’s love for her son is tested ... (more)
In a near-future world ravaged by environmental disaster and a deadly virus, Lina carries her infected teenage son, Aris, to a retired doctor hoping he will be able to cure him. But Aris’s infection proves extremely aggressive and Lina’s love for her son is tested ... (more)
Soul Food (2021)
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the ... (more)
Yannis (15) and his mother are moving in at her boyfriend’s apartment. Yannis starts hanging out with Olga (40), a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the ... (more)
Magnetic Fields (2022)
Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box. (more)
Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box. (more)
Deconstructing Interruption (2016)
The film captures the way Yorgos Zois worked with his actors during the shooting of the film Interuption, as well as the atmosphere that evoked on the filming set. (more)
The film captures the way Yorgos Zois worked with his actors during the shooting of the film Interuption, as well as the atmosphere that evoked on the filming set. (more)
Murderess (2023)
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden ... (more)
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden ... (more)
Kyuka - Before Summer's End (2024)
A single father and his two adult twin children go on a sailing holiday to the island of Poros, where the twins come across and befriend two girls, and get to meet their parents – including, unbeknownst to them, their birth mother, who abandoned them when they were ... (more)
A single father and his two adult twin children go on a sailing holiday to the island of Poros, where the twins come across and befriend two girls, and get to meet their parents – including, unbeknownst to them, their birth mother, who abandoned them when they were ... (more)