Gregory RENTIS (1984, Greece) graduated from Imperial College London and is currently an MFA candidate in the Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Sundown (2010) is his graduate thesis film. Rentis works and lives in both Athens and Los Angeles. He was an associate producer on Bomb It (2007, Jon Reiss) and the assistant editor on Monte Hellman’s latest film Road to Nowhere (2010).

Gregory Rentis

Charming and moving drama about rite of passage of thirteen-year-old boy living on Rhodes, who sees his experiment with a stray cat get out of hand.

IFFR 2010

Sundown, 

Spectrum - Shorts

Sundown

Ektoras Lygizos

Yorgos is 22 and lives in Athens. He dœsn’t have a job, money, a girlfriend or food. His most important possessions are his canary and his beautiful singing voice. And then he also loses his home. A moving and painful commentary on the present crisis in Greece.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Gregory Rentis

Filmography

Gregory Rentis at IFFR

Sundown

Boy Eating the Bird's Food