Panagiotis Evangelidis

Writing

Panagiotis Evangelidis

Athens, Greece

Panagiotis Evaggelidis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Ευαγγελίδης) was born in Athens, where he lives and works. He is a film director, screenwriter, author and literary translator. He has published four novels. He translates almost exclusively from Japanese. He has written scripts for Greek cinema, including True Life, Strella and Xenia in collaboration with director Panos Koutras for the films of the same name. He mainly makes anthropocentric observational documentaries. Portraits of people, chamber films. His films: Chip and Ovie, The Life and Death of Celso Junior, Glow in the Dark, Diptych, The Pure Life, Irving Park, The Tilos Weddings, Sibyl, Portrait of a Collector in Mature Age, Sylvia Robin.

Acting credits

Multi Family Garage Sale poster
NR

Animals everywhere, digital or not, an a tennis tournament on the horizon. Still growing up under their father's "myopic" gaze, Daphne and her siblings will get to be reminded once and again that adulthood is always gifted and never gained.

Multi Family Garage Sale

2026

Queen Antigone: Three Acts poster
2.0

Brother and sister live in Athens; then they start a road trip.

Queen Antigone: Three Acts

2014

Kaliarda poster
7.0

Paola Revenioti and the filmmaking team Paola Team Documentaries present their first documentary feature. Kaliardáwas the secret language of the homosexual community in Greece, from the 40s until the first years following the fall of the dictatorship in the mid-70s. Paola became acquainted with the use of kaliardá towards its end, in the 80s. We started out with an aim to record the history of kaliardá, but along the way we realized we were recording the history of the homosexual community in Greece during the twentieth century. Themes started emerging, such as love, sexuality, hangouts, problems faced by people at the time and how conditions gradually changed. In the documentary, we speak with academics and people from the street who have first-hand experience of our topic.

Kaliarda

2015

Tilos Weddings poster
NR

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever held in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages through visual material that was shot ad hoc, but also through footage from the Gay Pride of the same year, Press conferences and other demonstrations regarding the same topic.

Tilos Weddings

2024

Holy Emy poster
6.5

A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.

Holy Emy

2022

Behind the camera

Fan poster
NR

A little girl is tired of her parents' behavior and decides to take over.

Fan

2014

The Life and Death of Celso Junior poster
2.0

What is more important? The boots or the man wearing them? In a storeroom in Brazil, a pair of leather boots catches the eye of little Celso. He is in awe. Today he is an artist living in Switzerland. The life and musings, the art and the many deaths of a fetishist.

The Life and Death of Celso Junior

2011

The Life and Death of Celso Junior poster
2.0

What is more important? The boots or the man wearing them? In a storeroom in Brazil, a pair of leather boots catches the eye of little Celso. He is in awe. Today he is an artist living in Switzerland. The life and musings, the art and the many deaths of a fetishist.

The Life and Death of Celso Junior

2011

Female poster
NR

Alice was an iconic figure in Greek film and theater, an enigmatic pop culture phenomenon, a woman trapped between her public image and her personal reality. Through a multifaceted approach, the film unveils the truth behind her meticulously constructed persona, while exploring the contradictions and social dynamics that shaped her journey.

Female

2025

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

Xenia poster
6.1

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.

Xenia

2014

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name poster
2.0

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love during many decades in Greek society and the pathos and sorrow of a sexual encounter.

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2011

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name poster
2.0

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love during many decades in Greek society and the pathos and sorrow of a sexual encounter.

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2011

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name poster
2.0

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love during many decades in Greek society and the pathos and sorrow of a sexual encounter.

Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2011

Irving Park poster
2.0

IRVING PARK is the story of four gay men in their 60s who live together in Chicago, exploring an unconventional lifestyle of master/slave relationships. A family based on free choice and the consent to lose one’s personal freedom in favor of the desire of the Other.

Irving Park

2019

Irving Park poster
2.0

IRVING PARK is the story of four gay men in their 60s who live together in Chicago, exploring an unconventional lifestyle of master/slave relationships. A family based on free choice and the consent to lose one’s personal freedom in favor of the desire of the Other.

Irving Park

2019

Tilos Weddings poster
NR

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever held in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages through visual material that was shot ad hoc, but also through footage from the Gay Pride of the same year, Press conferences and other demonstrations regarding the same topic.

Tilos Weddings

2024

Tilos Weddings poster
NR

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever held in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages through visual material that was shot ad hoc, but also through footage from the Gay Pride of the same year, Press conferences and other demonstrations regarding the same topic.

Tilos Weddings

2024

Tilos Weddings poster
NR

In the year 2008, the mayor of the island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea agreed to perform the first gay and lesbian civil marriages ever held in Greece. The film follows the story of these two civil marriages through visual material that was shot ad hoc, but also through footage from the Gay Pride of the same year, Press conferences and other demonstrations regarding the same topic.

Tilos Weddings

2024

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

Real Life poster
4.6

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...

Real Life

2004

Sylvia Robyn poster
NR

Digenis - a queer artist with very few followers - can't relate: estranged from his family, he has almost no friends and seems destined for unrequited love. Clinically depressed, he is diagnosed with autism, a revelation that triggers a journey of self-discovery as he reveals himself as a transgender person, beginning the transition to becoming Sylvia Robyn.

Sylvia Robyn

2024

Giannis in the Cities poster
NR

1949, towards the end of the Greek Civil War. Yannis, the son of a rebel, is torn from his village and deported to the Childcare Cities where his ideas and desires are manipulated. Nightmares and dark feelings for his father slowly inhabit his heart. Only when he reaches adulthood does he redefine his existence, so he decides to go and meet the man.

Giannis in the Cities

2024

Chip & Ovi poster
NR

Chip and Ovi met in an orphanage near the city of Kluj-Napoca in Romania during their teenage years. Ovi was born with disabilities in his arms and Chip has a severely damaged leg from polio. Both were abandoned shortly after birth to be raised in the care of the state. Despite their difficult situation, they dare to dream big: Chip wants to be an oilman in Texas and Ovi a professional cameraman. With humor and charm, they struggle to overcome their disabilities, social discrimination and poverty while dealing with the inevitable ups-and-downs of their relationship.

Chip & Ovi

2008

No artwork available
NR

Three days of an encounter between two persons in a Thessaloniki hotel, during a July heatwave. Sylvia and Yannis talk, joke, look at each other, are taken by surprise, fall in love, and learn to listen to the sounds of the surrounding world, weaving their own cocoon. Time counts backwards.

Horse and Rider

2026

No artwork available
NR

Three days of an encounter between two persons in a Thessaloniki hotel, during a July heatwave. Sylvia and Yannis talk, joke, look at each other, are taken by surprise, fall in love, and learn to listen to the sounds of the surrounding world, weaving their own cocoon. Time counts backwards.

Horse and Rider

2026

No artwork available
NR

Three days of an encounter between two persons in a Thessaloniki hotel, during a July heatwave. Sylvia and Yannis talk, joke, look at each other, are taken by surprise, fall in love, and learn to listen to the sounds of the surrounding world, weaving their own cocoon. Time counts backwards.

Horse and Rider

2026

They Glow in the Dark poster
6.5

Two middle-aged gay men have decided to move their fractured lives into a decadent house with a bizarre, otherworldly atmosphere, in the heart of a newly reconstructed New Orleans.

They Glow in the Dark

2013

They Glow in the Dark poster
6.5

Two middle-aged gay men have decided to move their fractured lives into a decadent house with a bizarre, otherworldly atmosphere, in the heart of a newly reconstructed New Orleans.

They Glow in the Dark

2013