Panos Papahadzis

Panos started working in the cinema and television business in the '80s. He had been an active member of the State Council of Cinematography under the authority of the Greek Ministry of Culture. He has participated in EAVE/Media Programme 1992 seminars for European producers. Panos is a member of the European Film Academy, President of S.A.P.O.E. (Audiovisual Producers' Association of Greece), founding member of the Hellenic Film Academy and member of the Academy's first Board of Directors. He has produced over than 50 feature films that won national recognition along with commercial success. Among these are FROM THE SNOW by Sotiris Goritsas- 1993 (Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Golden Alexander in the Thessaloniki Film Festival), END OF AN ERA by Antonis Kokkinos-1994 (Berlin FF), THE COW'S ORGASM by Olga Malea- 1997, EXTENDED PLAY by Yannis Xanthopoulos- 2006 (380.000 domestic box office), STRAIGHT STORY by Vladimiros Kyriakidis and Efi Mouriki- 2006 (400.000 domestic box office), SOUL KICKING by Yannis Economides- 2006 (Cannes- Semaine Internationale de la Critique 2006), IN THE WOODS by Angelos Frantzis- 2010 (premiere in Rotterdam Film Festival), KNIFER by Yannis Economides- 2010 (premiere in Busan Film Festival, 7 awards by the Hellenic Film Academy), STRATOS-TO MIKRO PSARI by Yannis Economides- 2014 (Berlinale Competition 2014), ROZA OF SMYRNA by Yorgos Kordellas- 2016 (360.000 domestic box office), BALLAD FOR A PIERCED HEART by Yannis Economides, SIEGE ON LIPERTI STREET by Stavros Pamballis , ARMY BABY by Yorgos Kordellas and PELE'S TEAM by Marios Karamanis, which is currently in production. Panos has also produced documentaries, shorts and TV series. His productions have participated in many International Festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Carlovy Vary, London, Toronto, Istanbul and many others. Over the years, Panos has worked on many international co-productions (with France, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium and Cyprus).

Works

Αρχελάου 5

Αρχελάου 5

Release Date2024-09-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

The Heiress

Vera is a beautiful former flight attendant and wife of Stelios, a president of the small-medium football team of the Big Division, "Black Panthers". She lives a quiet life, raising her two children. Everything goes smoothly, until an extramarital adventure of Stelios has a fatal end.

Release Date2009-12-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count15

Army Baby

Christmas Eve, in a camp somewhere on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros. A taxi pulls up outside the gate and drops off an unaccompanied baby. The taxi driver informs the guard post that the baby's mother is sending him to his father, who is serving in the army. That's when it all begins...

Release Date2022-12-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Bang-Bang Wedding!

In this fast-paced Greek wedding comedy, young lovers Ilias and Marina arrive on the island of Crete for their wedding, along with their large, boisterous families all eager to celebrate the nuptials. However, when a typo on the wedding invitation confuses the reception venue and scatters the guests in different directions, they embark on a collision course of increasingly comedic proportions.

Release Date2008-01-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

Crimes of the Future

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Release Date2022-05-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1165

Tailor

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 tailor shop on wheels- he reinvents his life and his craft. He changes the brides of Athens and falls in love for the first time in his 50s.

Release Date2020-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count21

End of an Era

In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.

Release Date1994-10-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Ballad for a Pierced Heart

In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.

Release Date2020-03-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count18

Dawn

Love story between a famous singer and a women working in a boutique. She joins his group and replaces him as the singer, while he gradually falls for alcohol and drugs.

Release Date1994-11-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

O orgasmos tis ageladas

Two young women, who live in a provincial town in Thessaly, come of age in their own unique ways. Through flirtations, unrequited love, sexual urges, misunderstandings, and excesses, the two friends quickly realize that their future lies far away from their provincial town. Armed with hope and dreams, they set off for the big city and its opportunities.

Release Date1997-11-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count9

A Bee in August

Harris, his wife, his mistress and his half German sister arrive with a boat to a distant Aegean island, assessable only by boat. The boat man forgets them and they are stranded there. Harris gets stung by a bee, and he develops an allergy. He gets terribly swollen and his alter ego emerges. Suddenly all secrets, hidden truths and feelings come into the open.

Release Date2007-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

Behind the Haystacks

A middle-aged fisherman living with his wife and daughter on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses.

Release Date2023-01-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count8

From the Snow

This highly acclaimed drama from Greek writer/director Sotiris Goritsas, inspired by the Sotiris Dimitriou short story, represented Greece as an official selection for the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. It concerns two young Greek men seeking refuge in Albania. Thomas (Vassilis Eleftheriadis) and Achilleas (Ierassimos Skiadaeressis) make an illegal late-night run at the Greek border, joined by young Nikos (Antonis Manolas), a child whose mother had been killed by Albanian guards. Returning to Athens, they find that the land they had missed and dreamed of so often has changed, refusing to accept the returning refugees or even see them as Greek -- the locals refer to the trio as "Albanians" throughout the film. Demoralized and disillusioned, Thomas is accidentally killed while working at a building site to make ends meet, and Achilleas and Nikos decide to return to their Albanian village rather than stay in an Athens, which clearly has no place for them anymore.

Release Date1993-03-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5

Stratos

At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his debt is the only thing that matters to Stratos, everything else is indifferent and he lives detached, surrounded by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…

Release Date2014-03-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count39

A Time to Kill

Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins.

Release Date1993-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

To kanarini podilato

A new teacher comes by transfer to an elementary school in Athens. He will distinguish a student which can't read, write or do arithmetic, and will help to discover some other talents he has, and will give him an incentive to try to learn.

Release Date2000-02-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Everything Will Be Fine

Fani and Gina, an illicit couple, are drawn into a strange and poorly planned kidnapping by Miltiadis, Gina's official fiancé. Their plan to kidnap the corrupt lawyer Giotis Mathiopoulos fails miserably, as they end up kidnapping his aunt, Elenitsa, instead.

Release Date2009-01-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Truants

The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven year period of their integration into society. The reunions take place on their ancestral island, the setting of their common past. Every time they return "home" they carry with them the results of their personal choices. They also carry with them the effects of modern Greek society, a society the slowly but surely changes them, weathering their relationships, until they gradually lose contact with each other. The end of this epoch, will find them dispersed, confronting the dawn of an era where the pursuit of individual ambitions reigns.

Release Date1996-12-06

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Vote Count11

Dream a Little Dream

As his wedding day approaches, the architect Yannis keeps having a recurring dream that leaves him shaken when he wakes up. The girl in his reverie is stunningly beautiful, a blithe spirit who taunts him with her smile, her shapely figure, her sensual persona - all that a man would want as a companion for life. The real world, however, offers him someone entirely different. Anna is sweet, attentive, down to earth - all that a man could wish for in a normal marriage. The right decision, it appears, is made. And then it happens: Yannis's dream comes true - on his wedding day.

Release Date1999-06-04

DepartmentProduction

JobLine Producer

Vote Count1

Under the Stars

Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village, where a magical experience awaits them.

Release Date2001-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobLine Producer

Vote Count1

Roza of Smyrna

An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood and an old photograph that send him on a journey to bridge the past with the present.

Release Date2016-12-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count30

Real Life

Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey... His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Athens into a living hell...

Release Date2004-11-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

AirHostess-737

Vanina, a 39-year old flight attendant, works on a domestic route onboard a Boeing 737. She complains about her recently attached braces, in a late attempt for a perfect smile. What she really must do is confront her, since forever, absent mother, whose body lies in the cargo hold of the plane.

Release Date2022-08-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

Knifer

After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his relationship with his aunt changes everything.

Release Date2010-10-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count22

Broken Vein

To keep his home out of a loan shark's clutches, a businessman sets a seemingly flawless plan in motion - and a sequence of events that will ultimately lead to an unthinkable family tragedy.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Soul Kicking

Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them all... Takis has one friend and relatives. Woe is him!... Takis has run out of time. Yet, in his mind, a heavy black cloud has settled, turning everything dark... Takis is silent. He lies down and fills with rage. He fills with rage and sinks deeper...

Release Date2006-11-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count12

Patision Avenue

Yanni’s mum is on her way to audition for a role as Shakespeare’s Viola, when she discovers that her young son has been left home alone. Through a series of phone calls, she fights to balance the most important roles of her life, whilst walking in the most controversial area of central Athens, Patision Avenue

Release Date2018-08-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count16

The Boy with the Light Blue Eyes

High up on the Greek mountains, there is a remote village, whose residents strongly believe in myths and superstitions. Peter is a teenager, who has grown up in this suffocating environment with his strict grandmother and overprotective mother, who have forced him to wear a protective mask over his eyes since the day he was born. Peter suffers from an “eye disease” and he is gradually losing his sight. Before he becomes completely blind, he and his best friend Aemon will travel away from home and go to the place they desire the most: to see the view up from the top of the recently built wind turbines. Through their adventures, Peter will come-of-age, and learn the painful truth about his eye condition and the lies he has been told. He will understand that to complete his journey he must sacrifice his own eyes.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Οδομαχία

Release Date2008-11-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

In the Woods

Enormous tree trunks. The nature of leaves, the roots of desire and a house hidden deep in the forest. A journey to the other side. Something like a "punk" existential fairytale.

Release Date2010-03-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count7

The Flaw

Set in a dystopian world dominated by the Regime, a ruthless Interrogator is ordered by the Special Service to follow a perfect plan to prove a suspect's guilt. But once the interrogation gets underway, he comes to realize that there is a flaw not only in the plan, but also in the Regime itself.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

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