Yiota Festa

Acting

Yiota Festa

Athens, Greece

Giota Festa (Athens, 1957) is a Greek film, theatre and television actress. She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied with a scholarship at the Drama School of the National Theatre and then two years of theatre and cinema in Manchester. She has two daughters with her partner Philippos Koutsaftis (director/cinematographer).

Acting credits

Balkanisateur poster
6.1

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.

Balkanisateur

1997

Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea poster
6.7

Autumn 2015. Profoundly affected by the picture of a little boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, lifeguards Oscar and Gerard travel to Lesbos (Greece). Once there, the reality is horrific: thousands of people risk their lives every day, crossing the sea in precarious boats and fleeing from armed conflicts. But nobody bothers to rescue them. With Esther, Nico and other members of the team, they will fight to do what they came to do, helping those who need it. For all of them, this initiation voyage will become a life-changing odyssey. Mediterráneo is the struggle to survive in the sea, an often hostile medium where every life counts.

Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea

2021

Welcome to 'All Saints poster
6.3

The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.

Welcome to 'All Saints

2011

Revanche poster
5.5

During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.

Revanche

1983

In the Garden poster
NR

Between heaven and earth, between theories about the creation of the world and an advanced pregnancy, a couple takes a walk in the National Garden. The woman lies down, closes her eyes and the adventure begins. How will she give birth? Will the man have time to attend the birth? Life is full of adversities and everyday life poses obstacles, sometimes logical and sometimes irrational. And there is no respite - only for a short while: In the Garden!

In the Garden

2007

Roza of Smyrna poster
7.5

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.

Roza of Smyrna

2016

The Woman Is... A Tough Person poster
4.8

Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...

The Woman Is... A Tough Person

2005

Πες πως μ' αγαπάς poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Πες πως μ' αγαπάς

1997

Paperboat poster
NR

Sometimes coming home is not what you expect it to be.

Paperboat

2006

The Cistern poster
6.1

In 1974, a group of 11-year-old boys spend the last carefree summer of their childhood, unaware that the world of grown-ups, with its loves, passions, prejudices and curses, is about to seal their fate. Aaron, Stelios, Sakis, Galanos and Verios, "the acrobats", are best friends. School has closed for the summer holidays and the children spend their time playing games, running errands, and riding their bikes. Life is a game, into which they channel all their physical energy and imagination. They practice their diving abilities in a big cistern. It is a game through which their special talents and competitive spirit unfold. One is good at balancing acts, another at diving and another at somersaults. It is in this neighborhood that Aaron will spend the most important summer of his life: a rite of passage from childhood to adolescence, a time for learning about love, jealousy and friendship.

The Cistern

2001

The Scent of Violets poster
NR

A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's electrician and a distant aunt, which will land her from myths and dreams to reality.

The Scent of Violets

1985

Defunct poster
9.0

A 30-something failed businessman moves into his grandpa's house, the defunct WW2 veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy, will redefine both the family hero and himself.

Defunct

2020

Water on Mars poster
NR

Mother and Son attend the exhumation of Husband/Father. The painful process holds an unexpected surprise.

Water on Mars

2021

Farther Right Than the Right poster
10.0

The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time.

Farther Right Than the Right

1989

Crystal Nights poster
5.1

In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies and is reborn, living two lives in a world that is rapidly changing.

Crystal Nights

1992

Stakaman! poster
4.7

A not yet recruited mathematician travels to Kastoria to accept the inheritance that his mother left him, alongside his daughter and two crazy old men, one of which might be his biological father.

Stakaman!

2001

Gamos sto Perithorio poster
7.0

An 80-year-old widower, Mr. Elias, goes to his village (Perithorio, where he had been president of the community for twenty-four consecutive years) to vote in the municipal elections. There he meets his childhood sweetheart (Fotini, also a widow). Their youthful engagement had been broken off due to a misunderstanding, but now their love is rekindled and they are considering marriage, despite the opposition of Fotini's daughter. When one day the village madman announces their rendezvous, the elderly couple, panicked, take the bus and flee to Drama. There they spend carefree, tender moments, but Mr. Elias' son, Aristides, finds them and forces them to return. However, the big decision has already been made, and when Mr. Elias' pension for former mayors and community presidents comes through, nothing can stop the couple anymore. Fotini comes to Athens and, together with Elias, they visit her grandson.

Gamos sto Perithorio

1989

The Song Of Return poster
7.5

Two years after the establishment of the junta of the colonels, a resistance fighter leaves for Sweden. After 14 years of exile, the return to Greece is painful. His girlfriend has been married, while his friends have completely changed.

The Song Of Return

1983

Three seasons poster
10.0

An existential reflection on time and gender.

Three seasons

1996

Modest Gods poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Modest Gods

1987

About Love poster
10.0

Composed of two independent, medium-length segments set against the backdrop of the early 1980s Greek society, "Peri Erotos" pivots around the unforeseen complications of eternal Eros. Starting with "Chrisanthi", the female narcissism--paired with fetishism and latent homosexuality--gives birth to emotional impasses, unchanneled sexual energy, and ultimately, erotic violence. Then, in "Iason", a young man torn between two women struggles to find his feet in an ever-changing game of twisted love. As unrestrained male passion takes over, the man attempts to reconcile the conflict between life and death and cope with rejection and self-destructive masochistic tendencies.

About Love

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Verandas

1984