Lila Kourkoulakou

Lila Kourkoulakou, born in Athens, studied cinema at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome as well as literature, and obtained her diploma in directing in 1956. Returning to Greece in 1957, she was from 1961 to 1966 adviser on cinema to the government and took part in drafting the first Greek law on cinema. She directed seven feature films, both fiction and documentary, more than thirty short documentaries and many television programmes, and worked for the reintegration of former lepers. She died on 28 April 2015.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Island of SilenceΤο νησί της σιωπήςLila Kourkoulakou · 1958Cinema