Known for Art
Vasilis Marmatakis, a celebrated Greek graphic designer based in Athens, is renowned for his provocative film posters. After studying at Camberwell College of Arts and the Royal College of Art in London, he returned to Greece, collaborating with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on posters for films like Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Favourite, and Poor Things. In 2003, he co-founded the MNP design studio and now works freelance, teaching at Vakalo College. His work, blending minimalism with bold imagery, includes projects for the Deste Foundation and Acropolis Museum, challenging viewers with thought-provoking visuals.
Filmography
35 films, 1 show


Bugonia
2025 · 1h 59m
country: Ireland
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.


Kinds of Kindness
2024 · 2h 44m
country: Ireland
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.


Poor Things
2023 · 2h 21m
country: Ireland
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.


Bleat
2022 · 30m
country: Greece
A black and white silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.


Great Freedom
2021 · 1h 56m
country: Austria
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he continues his quest for freedom and love, even if he finds it in the most unusual places.


Nimic
2020 · 12m
country: Germany
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.


The Favourite
2018 · 2h
country: Ireland
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.


The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · 2h 1m
country: United Kingdom
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.


Interruption
2016 · 1h 49m
country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.


Chevalier
2015 · 1h 45m
country: Greece
In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.


The Lobster
2015 · 1h 59m
country: France
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.


The Capsule
2012 · 36m
country: Greece
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.


L
2012 · 1h 23m
country: Greece
The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.


Alps
2011 · 1h 34m
country: Canada
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.


Dogtooth
2009 · 1h 38m
country: Greece
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.