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Athina Rachel Tsangari

Athina Rachel Tsangari is a Greek filmmaker. Some of her most notable works include her feature films, The Slow Business of Going (2000) and Attenberg (2010), as well as the co-production of Yorgos Lanthimos films Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), and Alps (2011). In her versatile work for cinema, she has also founded and been director of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. In 2015, her third feature-length film Chevalier as released — a buddy comedy set on a yacht in the Aegean Sea — premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. It won the Best Film prize in an official competition at the BFI-London Film Festival 2015. It had its North American premiere at the Toronto IFF, followed by the New York Film Festival to critical acclaim. Chevalier (2015) has also been nominated for the 2016 Foreign Language Film Oscar.