Olia Verriopoulou

France / Greece

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Born in Athens, Greece in 1992, Olia Verriopoulou lives and works between and Athens and Paris, where she studied cinema (Paris VII-Diderot, École des Gobelins). In 2021, she directed her first short Sacralisons. In 2025, she finishes La Première Imageher first fiction, and Histoires d’un mensongea feature documentary that premiered at IDFA.

For the past ten years she has participated in the programming and organization of film festivals and labs.

Filmography (1) +

🎨 Feature films (1)

2025 – La première image (I proti eikona) Role : Director
Synopsis : Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema… Part comedy-drama, part historical chronicle, La Première Image is a political coming-of-age, a film about the power of the imagination and childhood in times of dictatorship.

Synopsis : Athens, April of 1967. During the first days of the military dictatorship, little Loukas is suffocating in his family’s apartment, which he is not allowed to leave. He then invents a new game that connects him to the outside world: answering the telephone. But the house’s phone line gets mixed up with that of the Studio cinema… Part comedy-drama, part historical chronicle, La Première Image is a political coming-of-age, a film about the power of the imagination and childhood in times of dictatorship.