Babis MAKRIDIS (1970, Greece) was educated in film at the Stavrakos Film School. He has made a large number of TV commercials. His short film The Last Fakir (2005) was awarded the Newcomer's Prize at the Drama Short Film Festival in Greece. His debut film L (2012) was selected for the competition at Sundance, the Hivos Tiger Competition at IFFR and many other film festivals. Birds. Or How to Be One is his third feature.

Babis Makridis

Essay-like contemplation on the desire for freedom inspired by a play by Aristophanes in which people wish to become birds.

That sensation in your tummy on a swing, that's a deeply rooted, evolutionary desire to fly like the birds. This cinematic essay is a contemplation, a voyage of discovery searching for freedom. And perhaps also an indictment of the obstacles on our way to freedom.

IFFR 2020

Voices

Birds (Or How to Be One), 

Voices Main Programme

Birds (Or How to Be One)

Absurdist drama with a dash of black humour about an anti-hero who is only happy if he is sad. Everything goes fine as long as his wife is in a coma. When she unexpectedly awakens, things go wrong. He has become addicted to sympathy and must at all costs be pitied.

IFFR 2018

Pity, 

Pity

A man lives and works in his car. He meticulously, dutifully works as its driver until, one day, a New Driver is employed. Absurdist-existentialist film about bears, the best honey and the importance of wearing the right footwear.

IFFR 2023
25 Jan – 5 Feb 2023

Babis Makridis

Filmography

Babis Makridis at IFFR

L

Pity

Birds (Or How to Be One)