Athanasios Karanikolas (b. 1967, Thessaloniki, Greece) studied photography at the New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Design, both in New York. He then moved to Germany, where he took courses in video and media art at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and in film direction at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He shot his feature debut Elli Makra, 42277 Wuppertal in 2007. His last two features, Echolot (2013) and At Home (Sto spiti, 2014), were screened at Berlin in the prestigious Forum section. In addition to film direction Karanikolas directs for the theatre and teaches at various universities.
MFF Karlovy Vary
