Eva Stefani

Directing·Jan 1, 1964·Alexandria, Virginia, USA

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Eva Stefani is director of documentaries and short experimental films. She was born in the USA and lives in Athens. She has directed over 30 films, ranging from ethnographic to experimental cinema. Her work has been screened at many festivals around the world, winning international awards (Oberhausen, Cinéma du Réel, FIPRESCI, etc.), while film festivals such as the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and L’Europe autour de l’Europe and universities such as New York University and Columbia in New York have organized tributes to her work. Since 2000, she has participated in international art exhibitions, most notably documenta14 and the Venice Biennale. Her latest art work, entitled “The Luminous Cave”, is an installation commissioned by EMST, as part of the exhibition series “What if Women Ruled the World?”. In addition to her artistic activity, Eva Stefani is a professor of cinema in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at the National University of Athens. She studied at the Department of Political Science of the Law School of the National University of Athens and then did postgraduate studies in film theory and anthropology at New York University (NYU) and in cinema with an emphasis on documentary at the Ateliers Varan school in Paris and at the National Film & Television School in Great Britain. Her doctoral thesis concerns the representations of Greece in ethnographic cinema (Panteion, 1997). Her latest film, entitled “The Heart of the Bull”, is a peculiar portrait of the director and choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou.

Film	Credit
Bull's Heart2025 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
XXaire2025 · Director	Director
Days and Nights of Dimitra K.2021 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Only Men2019 · Director	Director
MMouth2019 · Director	Director
Manuscript2017 · Director	Director
LLast Rose2017 · Director	Director
IIncubator2016 · Director	Director
The Limousine2014 · Actor	Actor
Bathers2008 · Director	Director
What Time Is It?2007 · Director	Director
NNational Anthem2007 · Director	Director
TThe Kiss2007 · Director	Director
HHole2006 · Director	Director
The Box2004 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Acropolis2001 · Director	Director
RReveille2001 · Director	Director
Roommates1999 · Director	Director
AA Greek from Kazakhstan1998 · Director	Director
Out of Country, In the Prison1998 · Director	Director
TThe Coffee Shop1998 · Director	Director
TThe Chain1998 · Director	Director
VVisiting E. C. Gonatas1998 · Director	Director
Visits to the Home of E. H. Gonatas1996 · Director	Director
FFrom Aris to New York1996 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Athene1995 · Director of Photography, Director, Writer	Director of Photography, Director, Writer
LLetters from Albatross1995 · Director	Director
PPaschalis1993 · Director	Director
DDirge1991 · Director	Director
LLa Vie En Vert1989 · Director	Director