Alexandra Matheou

Directing

Alexandra Matheou

Alexandra Matheou is a screenwriter and director. Her work explores the intersection of the intimate and the social, with a focus on female subjectivity, class, and belonging. Set within shifting folds of reality, her films often inhabit the space between the ordinary and the absurd. Her short films have screened at festivals and museums worldwide. Her latest short film, Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection), premiered at Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Summer Place poster
5.3

Summer is a permanent state of mind in Limassol, a once small seaside town in Cyprus now transforming into the oligarch paradise of the Mediterranean. Within its asphyxiating environment, Tina, a depressed food stylist is ready to give up on everything on the day of her birthday, until an extraordinary encounter changes her life.

A Summer Place

2021

A Summer Place poster
5.3

Summer is a permanent state of mind in Limassol, a once small seaside town in Cyprus now transforming into the oligarch paradise of the Mediterranean. Within its asphyxiating environment, Tina, a depressed food stylist is ready to give up on everything on the day of her birthday, until an extraordinary encounter changes her life.

A Summer Place

2021

No artwork available
NR

A surrogate mother joins the couple expecting her baby on a vacation. As a love triangle quietly takes shape, she is confronted with the emotional cost of surrogacy and the realization that her job doesn’t always end at birth.

Shibboleth

No artwork available
NR

A surrogate mother joins the couple expecting her baby on a vacation. As a love triangle quietly takes shape, she is confronted with the emotional cost of surrogacy and the realization that her job doesn’t always end at birth.

Shibboleth

Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection) poster
NR

Eliza works at a hotel resort, moving through a cycle of roles designed to always keep the guests satisfied. Behind the polished surface of the hotel, she struggles to balance an unseen private life, all while carrying a rare anatomical condition: she is physically unable to smile.

Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection)

2026

Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection) poster
NR

Eliza works at a hotel resort, moving through a cycle of roles designed to always keep the guests satisfied. Behind the polished surface of the hotel, she struggles to balance an unseen private life, all while carrying a rare anatomical condition: she is physically unable to smile.

Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection)

2026