Greek Film Critics Association Awards

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The Greek Film Critics Association Awards is one of the most important and oldest annual awards of the Greek Cinema. The awards are given out by Greek Film Critics Association and began in 1976. The PEKK gives out the awards during Thessaloniki Festival.

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Best film award

YearMovieoriginal titleDirector
2015 Tetarti 04:45 Τετάρτη 4:15 Alexis Alexiou
2014 Stratos Το Μικρό Ψάρι Yannis Economidis
2013 The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas Η Αιώνια Επιστροφή Elina Psikou
2012not given
2011 The City of Children Η Πόλη των Παιδιών Giorgos Gikapeppas
2010not given
2009not given
2008 The night Fernanto Pessoa met Konstantinos Kavafi Τη νύχτα που ο Φερνάντο Πεσσόα συνάντησε τον Κωνσταντίνο Καβάφη Stelios Charalampopoulos
2007 I metamorfosi Η μεταμόρφωση Costas Sfikas
2006 I psychi sto stoma Η ψυχή στο στόμα Yannis Economidis
2005 Buzz Buzz Spyros Taraviras
2004 Real Life
CCTV
Αληθινή ζωή
CCTV
Panos H. Koutras
Vasilis Katsikis
2003 Matchbox Σπιρτόκουτο Yannis Economides
2002 Hard Goodbyes: My Father Δύσκολοι αποχαιρετισμοί: Ο μπαμπάς μου Penny Panagiotopoulou
2001 Dekapentavgoustos
Still Looking for Morphine
Δεκαπεντάυγουστος
Πες στη μορφίνη ακόμα την ψάχνω
Constantine Giannaris
Yannis Fagkras
2000 Agelastos Petra
The House of Cain
Kleistoi Dromoi (special mention)
Αγέλαστος πέτρα
Το σπίτι του Κάιν
Κλειστοί δρόμοι
Filippos Koutsaftis
Christos Karakepelis
Stavros Ioannou
1999 The Four Seasons of the Law Η εαρινή σύναξις των αγροφυλάκων Dimos Avdeliodis
1998 From the Edge of the City Από την άκρη της πόλης Constantine Giannaris
1997 Vasiliki
No Budget Story(special mention)
The golden apples of Esperides(special mention)
Βασιλική
No Budget Story
Τα χρυσά μήλα των εσπερίδων
Vaggelis Serdaris
Renos Charalampidis
Sophia Papachristou
1996 Apontes Απόντες Nikos Grammatikos
1995 The lost treasure of Hursit Pasa
Paul Klee's Prophetic Bird of Sorrows
Ο χαμένος θησαυρός του Χουρσίτ Πασά
Το προφητικό πουλί των θλίψεων του Πάουλ Κλέε
Stavros Tsiolis
Costas Sfikas
1994 Telos Epohis Τέλος εποχής Antonis Kokkinos
1993 Lefteris Dimakopoulos Λευτέρης Δημακόπουλος Periklis Choursoglou
1992 Please Women Don't Cry
Byron, balanta gia enan daimonismeno
Παρακαλώ γυναίκες μην κλαίτε
Μπάυρον, Μπαλάντα για ένα δαίμονα
Stavros Tsiolis
Nikos Koundouros
1991not given
1990not given
1989 Xenia
Olga Robards
Ξένια
Όλγα Ρόμπερτς
Patrice Vivancos
Christos Vakalopoulos
1988 In The Shadow of Fear Στη σκιά του φόβου Giorgos Karipidis
1987 The Children of the Swallow Τα παιδιά της χελιδόνας Costas Vrettakos
1986 The Photograph
Alligoria (special mention)
The Tree We Hurt(special mention)
Η φωτογραφία
Αλληγορία
Το δέντρο που πληγώναμε
Nikos Papatakis
Kostas Sfikas
Dimos Avdeliodis
1985 The children of Saturn (hororable mention)
Topos (hororable mention)
Stone Years (hororable mention)
Τα παιδιά του Κρόνου
Τόπος
Πέτρινα χρόνια
Giorgos Korras
Antouanetta Aggelidi
Pantelis Voulgaris
1984 The love of Ulysses
Karkalou
Ο έρωτας του Οδυσσέα
Καρκαλού
Vassilis Vafeas
Stavros Tornes
1983 Revanche Ρεβάνς Nikos Vergitsis
1982 Balamos (hororable mention)
Repos (hororable mention)
Μπαλαμός
Ρεπό
Stavros Tornes
Vassilis Vafeas
1981 Oi dromoi tis agapis einai nyhterinoi
To Ergostasio
To Kairo ton Ellinon
Οι δρόμοι της αγάπης είναι νυχτερινοί
Το εργοστάσιο
Τον καιρό των Ελλήνων
Frieda Liappa
Tasos Psarras
Lakis Papastathis
1980 Alexander the Great Ο Μεγαλέξαντρος Theodoros Angelopoulos
1979 I Periplanisi
Anatoliki Perifereia (special mention)
Η περιπλάνηση
Ανατολική Περιφέρεια
Christoforos Christofis
Vassilis Vafeas
1978 The Lazy People From the Flourishing Valley Οι τεμπέληδες της εύφορης κοιλάδας Nikos Panagiotopoulos
1977 To Vary Peponi Το Βαρύ Πεπόνι Pavlos Tassios
1976 Happy Day Happy Day Pantelis Voulgaris

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