Lydia Konsta
Film Director & Producer
I look around and I wonder…
how the journey of directing brought me here…
A thrilling, unpredictable, and demanding journey—from my first short film, which won Best Student Film at Sheffield in 2002 and was distributed by the British Film Council, to today, where my show Herbs, Fruits of the Earth on ERT3 is in its third season and has been awarded for its environmental sensitivity.
After completing my studies in film directing and production at the Northern Media School, Sheffield Hallam University, I found myself in Berlin in 2003, where I was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus, learning alongside great filmmakers.
Portfolio
Akrites
"Akrites" is a TV series about people living at the ‘fringes’, on the ‘edge’. Whether they are scientists studying the celestial dome, or they are cattle breeders protecting their herds on the peaks of Pindos, or shelter personnel on the Olympus Plateau, they all have...
The Secrets of the Garden
‘Once upon a time there lived a brother and a sister in a beautiful tower, surrounded by miraculous herbs and fruits…’
During this crucial period for our planet, this fairytale reminds us of the most important lesson: as we sow, so shall we reap and the way we treat nature, so nature will treat us!
Herbs fruits of earth
Half hour weekly TV series produced by ERT3 (4 seasons 2017-2022). In the 56 episodes of our TV series we travel in Greece, meeting those who work patiently and passionately on the acres of Greek land, cultivating, producing, harvesting and often processing herbs and fruits. Produced and directed by Lydia Konsta.
Light Thickens
An aging German, nine artists, six ‘Crime Scenes’, an art exhibition all in a documentary about the power of artistic expression that wants to bring historical facts and lingering feelings in the Light… a Light that Thickens, burdens, annoys but at the same time is looking for redemption.
Mutual Concent
A fight, a chance encounter, and a strange advertisement. Is the pain of divorce a matter of social perception, or does it exist inherently? Is composure merely rationalization? Is violence purely primitive? Two snapshots from different perspectives that, in essence, are two sides of the same coin.
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The Dowry
A documentary by Lydia Konsta A piece of embroidery is found, torn and forgotten, by Lydia Konsta, among her mother’s belongings. For the first time she hears the story of a Jewish young woman who in 1944 entrusted her dowry to Lydia’s grandmother’s aunt who was her...
So far yet close to me
A short film about longing, loneliness, and secrets.
The Table We Drag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzeqyT0WPb8&t=12s&ab_channel=LydiaKonsta Award-Winning Film by Lydia Konsta