Film director Fotos Lambrinos was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema of the School of Economics and Political Sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The award ceremony was held on Friday, 19 December 2025, in the University’s Great Hall.
Proceedings opened with welcoming remarks by the Rector, Professor Gerasimos Siasos.
This was followed by a presentation of Fotos Lambrinos’s work and personal qualities by Ioannis Skopeteas, Associate Professor of Film Direction and Chair of the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema.
The ceremony also included the screening of a short film in honour of Fotos Lambrinos curated by Eva Stefani, Professor of Documentary Cinema at the University of Athens.
The formal conferment followed, with Associate Professor Ioannis Skopeteas, Chair of the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, reading the official citation.
The Dean of the School of Economics and Political Sciences, Professor Nikolaos Eriotis, subsequently invested the honouree with the academic gown of the School.
The ceremony closed with an address by the awardee, Mr Fotos Lambrinos.
In his welcome address, the Rector, Professor Gerasimos Siasos, said, among other things:
‘His contribution has been long-standing, consistent, and wide-ranging. Historical events and political figures are among the themes explored in Fotos Lambrinos’s documentaries. His camera has also captured prominent artists from Greece and abroad, as well as moments from the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Through his work, he has highlighted documentary cinema not merely as a form of artistic expression, but as a means of historical understanding, critical reflection, and public discourse. In more than forty years of continuous creative work, he has directed over twenty-five documentary films.
From his first documentary, 100 Hours in May, to his most recent work, Captain Kemal, a Comrade, Fotos Lambrinos is a film-maker who illuminates the people and events that shaped the political landscape of turbulent modern Greece’.
Photos: Dimitris Konstantinidis
