Dogtooth

The Petit Palais cinema in the hip downtown Athens district of Pangrati will be reopening its doors to the public in October after undergoing a transformation into a theater.

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos accepts the award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for "Poor Things" as members of the cast, including Emma Stone who won the Best Actress award, look on, at the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday.

With Yorgos Lanthimos headed to Los Angeles, where his latest film, "The Favourite," has been nominated for an impressive 10 Oscars, Cine Studio is paying tribute to the Greek filmmaker with screenings of his previous work on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 5 and 6.

Left to right, British actor Nicholas Hoult, US actress Emma Stone, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, British actress Olivia Colman and British actor Joe Alwyn pose during a photocall for "The Favorite" at the 75th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Italy, Thursday.

Internationally acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos has admitted he had to leave Greece in order to make progress as a filmmaker.

"I moved to England because the way we worked in Greece no longer fulfilled my needs," the 43-year-old filmmaker said in an interview with Germany's Die Welt newspaper published on Thursday.

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney.

Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou won their first distinction at the international film festival of Cannes, earning the Best Screenplay Award for the film "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" on Sunday.

They shared the prize at the 70th version of the festival in southern France with the writers of "You Were Never Really Here" by British director Lynne Ramsay.

Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos (from left), actors Sunny Suljic, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and producer Ed Guiney pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" at the 70th international Cannes film festival on Monday.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, of "Lobster" and "Dogtooth" fame, returns to one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world to launch his latest project.

Yorgos Lanthimos's dystopian drama "The Lobster" was nominated on Tuesday in the Best Original Screenplay category of the 89th Oscars, making it the second time the 43-year-old filmmaker looks forward to bringing home one of the coveted gold statuettes.