Background
Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in Thessaloniki.
Syllas Tzoumerkas was born in Thessaloniki.
He studied theatre and directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School and the University of Athens.
His first feature film Homeland (Hora Proelefsis) had its world première at the International Critics" Week of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As an actor, Syllas Tzoumerkas participated in feature films Wasted Youth (2011) by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and January Vogel Rotterdam International Film Festival and The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) by Elina Psykou (Berlin International Film Festival). His second feature film A Blast, a Greek-German-Dutch co-production had its world premiere at the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival 2014.
The film was consequently presented in many international film festivals, most notably Sarajevo international film festival (regional premiere), BFI London Film Festival (Dare), Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Competition New Directors), Rotterdam International Film Festival 2015 (Limelight), among others
2012 Debate (co-writer and co-director with Youla Boudali, actor), Bios (Athens).
In 2000, he directed the short film The Devouring Eyes (Ta Matia Pou Trone) that was selected by the Cinéfondation of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the 2001 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Homeland participated in several international film festivals and won 5 Awards of the Hellenic Film Academy (best first film director, best supporting role actress for Ioanna Tsirigouli, original music, editing and make-up). The script for his second feature film A Blast won the Eurimages Company-production Award at the Cinelink co-production market of the 2012 Sarajevo film festival.
