
Directing
Babis Makridis
Born
1970-01-01 (56)
Place of birth
Kastoria, Grecia
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
His short film The Last Fakir (2005) won the Newcomer's Prize at the Drama short film festival, Greece. His debut feature L (2012) was presented in Competition at Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Tiger Awards and many other international festivals. It was awarded the first prize (Grand Prix) at the Molodist Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine, in 2012. Pity (2018), his second feature also premiered in Competition at Sundance Film Festival and Rotterdam Film festival. The film has received various awards and was crowned Best Film at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards in 2019. It also won the Fipresci Award at the Torino film festival, and Best Film & Best Director at the Odesa international Film fest…
Known for
6.3As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment: performing daily tasks prescribed by his doctors on cassette tape, and capturing those with a Polaroid camera.
Apples
2021
6.4The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Pity
2018
4.4Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Birds (Or How to Be One)
2020
5.5The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.
L
2012
NRWelcome to the murky world of digital ad fraud, organized crime’s biggest source of income after drug trafficking. A former industry executive pulls the curtain to expose how it’s done, who the victims are, and what role Google and Facebook play in the game.
Unclickable
2024
4.8When Konstadinos misses a flight and returns home unexpectedly, he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shocked, he leaves the house without letting them know what he saw and begins wandering in the streets of Athens.
My Best Friend
2001
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
6.3As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment: performing daily tasks prescribed by his doctors on cassette tape, and capturing those with a Polaroid camera.
Apples
2021
4.4Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Birds (Or How to Be One)
2020
3.9The 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
Behind the camera
6.4The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Pity
2018
6.4The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Pity
2018
4.4Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Birds (Or How to Be One)
2020
4.4Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
Birds (Or How to Be One)
2020
5.5The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.
L
2012
5.5The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.
L
2012
5.5The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.
L
2012
NRWelcome to the murky world of digital ad fraud, organized crime’s biggest source of income after drug trafficking. A former industry executive pulls the curtain to expose how it’s done, who the victims are, and what role Google and Facebook play in the game.
Unclickable
2024
NRElectra and Orestes stand accused of murdering their mother. Yet, in present-day Greece, it is not the gods who deliver justice, but mere mortals—seemingly powerless to piece together the truth.
Electra7
2025
NRAn escape artist trying to escape.
The Last Fakir
2005
NRAn escape artist trying to escape.
The Last Fakir
2005
