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The Lovers from Axos


Biography of Nicos Ligouris

Born in Athens, Greece. Film critic for the magazine "Synchronos Kinimatographos" founded by Theo Angelopoulos.
Studied film at the Academy for Television and Film in Munich.
Lives in Berlin.

Filmography

OMIXLI KATO APO TON ILIO / FOG UNDER THE SUN
(Fiction, Greece/Germany 1980)

EREBOS / EREBUS
(Fiction, Germany, 1989)

HERZ AUS STEIN / HEART OF STONE
(Fiction, Germany, 1994)
Best screenplay at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 1995

KALOKERINES ASTRAPES / SUMMER LIGHTNING
(Documentary, Greece-Germany 2004)
Best Feature Documentary at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, 2004;
Best Mediterranean Film at the Environmental Film Festival -ECOCINEMA- Rhodos, 2004;
Special Mention of the Jury at the 26th Festival du Film Méditerranéen Montpellier, 2004.

I ERASTES TIS AXOU / THE LOVERS FROM AXOS
(Documentary, Greece-Germany 2007)
Fipresci Award at the Documentary Film Festival Thessaloniki 2008;
Greek Film Center Award at the Documentary Film Festival Thessaloniki 2008;
ERT 3 (Greek Public Television) Broadcasting Award at the Documentary Film Festival Thessaloniki 2008.