Maria Ilioú

Maria Iliou is a Greek film director, scriptwriter and producer, well known in Greece and internationally both for her feature films and the historical documentaries she has directed in recent years. She was born in Greece and lives and works in Athens and New York City. Her best-known films are the feature-length films, The Four Seasons (1996), Alexandria, a Love Story (2002) and 90-minute historical documentaries: The Journey: The Greek American Dream (2007), Smyrna, The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City, 1900-1922 (2012), From Both Sides of the Aegean (2012) and Dear Aunt Lena (2017), Athens from East to West 1821-1896 (2020) and Athens in the Interwar Period 1922-1940 (2025). Her films have been shown in various countries and have won major distinctions and awards. Maria Iliou is also a writer of novels: Her novel A Friendship in Smyrna, published in 2022, received the prestigious Ourani Prize of the Academy of Athens for the best novel of the year in Greece.

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