Theo Panagopoulos

Theo Panagopoulos is an award-winning film director of Greek and Palestinian heritage and lives between Greece and Scotland. His creative and academic work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies. His most recent film, a short documentary film essay called “The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing”, screened in more than 200 festivals worldwide. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2025, the Best Short Film at IDFA in 2024 and was nominated for a BAFTA, European Film Academy Short Film and BAFTA Scotland.

“And the Sea Keeps on Moving” is a reflective essay film where a Greek-Palestinian filmmaker questions the entanglements of both of his identities around the Mediterranean. The film investigates the tension between movement in the sea and movements of solidarity by looking at dockworkers in Piraeus, a Greek trade ship in 2025 and Palestinian dockworkers of Jaffa port in 1935. The nature of complicity, solidarity and resistance are put into question by looking at the immortal jellyfish, a species that redefines the nature of time, life and death.