She studied Direction, Architecture and Photography, Film History in America, Italy and Greece.
Indicative filmography related to highlighting the Women’s issue and social inequality
1. “A Daily History”, about abortion, Velidis scholarship award, Thessaloniki festival. Screenplay Award. 2. “Seafaring” for 3 generations of female sailors, 3. “Women’s Magazines” 4. “The first Greek female teachers” How their education began and the great difficulties they faced in the exercise of their profession. 5. “From Sappho to Kassiani” women’s poetry, 6. “The hymn writer Kassiani” 7. “Sotiria Iatridou”, the female composer and DJ who wrote the first music for the cinema.
8. “Arleta” Composer, Songwriter.
9. “Irini Kontostathis Turtouri” Teacher of Smyrna who saved the children of the orphanage in the Asia Minor Disaster. 10. “Captain Svouras” children’s series on ERT with a little girl as the heroine.
11. “Elene Boukouri Altamoura, the first Greek Painter” Chalkida Festival Award, Distinction at the International Festival
Canada’s FIFA. Participation in the Thessaloniki Biennale. 12. “Shall we go for an Ouzo?” Feature film about the friendship of 2 women. State Award, 10 International Awards.
2019-22 Writing of the Screenplay “The Turtle Who Overheard Anna’s Dreams” For a film about the life of a teenage girl.
At the same time, I have directed many other documentaries with different themes
My 2022 documentary: “My grandfather Papaflessas” is a personal story.
cleoniflessa@gmail.com