Yannis Kokiasmenos

Acting

Yannis Kokiasmenos

Athens, Greece

Yannis Kokiasmenos (/Γιάννης Κοκιασμένος/; born in 1961) is a Greek actor, musician, and horse riding instructor best known for his leading role in the film Strella (2009).

Acting credits

The Odyssey poster
8.0

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

The Odyssey

2026

Hen poster
7.1

Escaping from a chicken farm, a hen finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

Hen

2026

Marathon poster
NR

Why does a polar bear feel sleepy come fall? Why does she lose her appetite? Why does she avoid fights? It' 's not easy to find out the secrets of the polar bear.

Marathon

2004

No artwork available
NR

A short story about a great intrusion and an irreversible loss. Do you even know who you are? How often do you change your mind? How much can you trust what you think you know? Caught between memory and nightmare, Margarita is trying to shut the door.

Lost Girl

2012

Smac poster
5.5

Eleni is diagnosed with cancer. After the initial shock she tries to get her life back together.

Smac

2016

No artwork available
NR

Four friends from Berlin spend their summer in Greece trying to free themselves of all societal norms and conventions. They throw away their phones, open their relationships and begin to question all mental and physical limits in search of freedom. But just as their newfound utopia unfolds, forest fires erupt around their camp. The four friends realize that they might have to leave the country and above all, their youthful ideals behind.

Gepellte Haut

2026

Flickering Souls Set Alight poster
NR

Greece, 2017. The inability to financially support Aris (who suffers from ALS), has his wife, Persefoni, come up against human existential limits. How many years do you need to travel in order to get “home”?

Flickering Souls Set Alight

2019

The Summer with Carmen poster
6.5

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

The Summer with Carmen

2023

Apallou poster
2.7

A grandson returns to his ancestors’ village for the winter. A grandfather returns from death to see his grandson for one last time. A village unable to cope with the returns that occurred out of love.

Apallou

2021

Strella poster
6.2

Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love.

Strella

2009

Thursday Night Sorbet poster
NR

Four sets of passengers and their romantic antics make the night shift of a rideshare driver one to remember.

Thursday Night Sorbet

2022

A Song Not Enough poster
6.5

In the winter of 72 a young actress and divorced mother, is arrested and goes at Korydallos for resistance activities. But the nine-year daughter, Olga, who now has to live with her father will not ever forgive the abandonment and keep the "trauma" even as adult

A Song Not Enough

2003

Ursa Minor poster
2.0

Ιn a cheap by-the-hour hotel, a man is being arrested while the unconscious body of a woman is being transported to the hospital. In the back seat of the patrol car, on his way to the police station, the man recalls the past few months and tries to figure out what went wrong.

Ursa Minor

2016

Dakar poster
NR

1978, on his birthday, Stavros was set to get engaged to Matula. Instead, he was forced to embark on his first big journey. 2020, on his birthday, Stavros wanders around the city alone. It is the day that he doesn’t like to talk. It is the day that he reflects on his past considering how things would have been if he had made other decisions.

Dakar

2020

The Attack of the Giant Mousaka poster
3.3

Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer...

The Attack of the Giant Mousaka

1999

Hannibal Before the Gates poster
6.3

The scrappy 18-year-old daughter of a small-town prostitute storms the bastion of the rich and powerful in this drama set in the elite world of horse trials and show jumping. Sheer talent and an unbreakable bond with a temperamental thoroughbred may not be enough for Chara, who aspires to rise from stable hand to champion.. I

Hannibal Before the Gates

2011

Paper Bird Flying poster
3.0

When the wind blows, everything acquires a strange power

Paper Bird Flying

2002

Success Story poster
4.2

In a country in deep crisis, two worlds collide: the bourgeois milieu of an intellectual psychiatrist, and the humbler, but no less ambitious world of a beautiful working class actress. They fall in love, but they will soon have to face reality.

Success Story

2017

Bastards poster
3.9

The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

Bastards

2023

Purgatory poster
2.0

A monk leads a procession. A girl is rescued from prostitution. Two college students become perpetrators of violent crimes. An elderly man falls victim to a police officer. A couple tries to repair their relationship. A woman expresses her anger to a civil servant. A man kidnaps his best friend. Seven different stories about love in modern Greece, from people who seek it, find it, lose it.

Purgatory

2022

Listen... poster
4.7

After twenty years of happy marriage, a devoted housewife is determined to get something off her chest.

Listen...

2000

The Elements poster
NR

A sex assault survivor who cannot heal from the trauma joins group therapy as a last resort, only to realize that there may be in fact one more thing that can help, with far more reaching consequences, dragging along other group members in the process.

The Elements

2022