Lanthimos’s new film is a story about a company called Alps whose personnel stands in for dead people by appointment, hired by the deceased people’s close circle. The talented film director appears to be steadily winning the admiration of the international cinema world.

Before becoming an acclaimed filmmaker, he worked as music video and TV commercials director, while he also contributed to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

He first intrigued his international audience with his third feature film, the 2009 Dogtooth, which earned an Academy Awards nomination in 2010 for best foreign language film. A year earlier, the movie had won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2009 Cannes Festival and has since earned fifteen other awards from different film festivals around the world.

You Tube: Alpis (Alps), Official Trailer & 68th Venice Film Festival – Alpis, Press Conference