Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian writer and director from Athens, Greece, based in Glasgow. He graduated with an MFA in Film Directing from Edinburgh College of Art in 2020 and works between fiction and documentary. His fiction film The Key, funded by BFI Network and Screen Scotland, won the Best Drama award at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. His most recent film, the archive documentary The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing won the Grand Jury award at Sundance Film Festival 2025, was nominated for a BAFTA, a Scottish BAFTA and a European Film Award, and screened in more than 200 festivals worldwide. He has also worked as a programmer, having curated programs for London Short Film Festival, SAFAR Film Festival, Interfilm and SMHAF and pre-selected for festivals such as Encounters, Slamdance and Sheffield Docfest.
In his work, he explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies.