Elsa Lekakou

Acting

Biography

Elsa Lekakou is an accomplished Greek actress. Her film and television credits include her debut in the Amazon series Greek Salad (2023), as well as award-winning short films such as Copa Loca (2017), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight, and Brutalia, Days of Labour (2021), which was in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week and won the Canal+ Award for Best Short Film. Her film credits include Broadway (2022), Killerwood (2024), and Kyuka: Before Summer’s End (2024), which premiered in the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival and won awards. For her performance in Kyuka, she was honored with the Best Actress Award from the Hellenic Film Academy (Iris Awards).

Known For

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Kyuka: Before Summer's End

Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.

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Persephone

A Greek-Japanese Cine-Operetta, where the ancient Greek myth of the Abduction of Persephone comes alive before the eyes of a Japanese group, as the arrival of a stranger man forces the family members of the hostel 'Persephone' to identify themselves with the fate of the mythological heroes.

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Holy Emy

A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition and her faraway mother's healing powers.

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Brutalia, Days of Labour

Perfectly identical girls in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal and oligarchic society. What would happen if we replaced bees with humans? Anna observes the universe of her hive. Not being able to consent to the violence that surrounds her, she will have to make a radical decision.

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Sad Girl Weekend

Best friends from college, Elli, Natasha, and Joe are spending their last weekend together on a getaway at Elli’s summerhouse. Natasha and Jo are leaving to study abroad, something that makes Elli emotional, since she feels that she is being left behind.

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Kioku Before Summer Comes

An everyday memory collage of two siblings who are feeling nostalgic for the summer.

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Killerwood

Fiction, reality and delusion gradually merge during the making of ‘Killerwood’, a thriller about a series of unsolved murders in modern-day Athens.

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Copa-Loca

This is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone – in every possible way.

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Broadway

Nelly has escaped from her wealthy and controlling family. As she dances in a strip club, she meets Markos, a small yet charismatic gangster, who helps her run away from her stepfather’s henchmen. Markos soon becomes her protector and lover. He brings her into Broadway, Athens, an abandoned entertainment complex squatted by a small community of dancers, tramps, thieves and a captive monkey. For a while, everything goes well, even when Broadway hosts a mysterious man, injured and covered with bandages, wanted dead by Athens’ most dangerous mafia. However, when Markos gets arrested and imprisoned, the newcomer will take an unexpectedly important place in the gang.

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Brown Castle

The centre of Athens. Surrounded by a world in crisis and generalised destruction, a small group of characters resist the end towards which they seem inevitably to be heading. The film looks at fraternity and the desire not to throw in the towel.