Screening of the West Coast Premier of Costa Gavras’ latest film LAST BREATH

Cast: Hiam Abbass, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Rampling

Costa-Gavras, Copyright KG Productions	Oliver Stone, photo by Regine Mahaux

The Academy-award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone will join Costa-Gavras for an extended conversation following the West Coast Premiere of the newest Gavras film, LAST BREATH. 

Known for creating some of the most influential films of the last decades, Mr. Stone continues to inspire generations with bold cinematic work that challenges conventional narratives and impacts us culturally.

As critically acclaimed political and social master storytellers, Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras have used their compelling and powerful art to create conversation starters influenced by living histories and personal experiences. Oliver Stone has said, “Truth is the greatest treasure a Socratic soul can attain in this lifetime”; and Costa-Gavras, “It’s important not to describe the character of the situation, but… the ethical meaning… the ethic of truthfulness is something very precise.”

From SALVADOR and MISSING, PLATOON and SHOCK TROOPS, JFK and Z, NATURAL BORN KILLERS and MAD CITY, U-TURN and SLEEPING CAR MURDERS, WALL STREET and CAPITAL, THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES and THE COSTA-GAVRAS CENTURY, Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras have led audiences on daring visual journeys to witness humanity, question the narrative, and search for a sense of independent truth.

Held in collaboration with UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, and part of the 2025 Los Angeles Greek Film Festival’s Costa-Gavras multi-event Tribute, we are honored to host this special conversation between Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras.

The screening of LAST BREATH and extended conversation of Oliver Stone with Costa-Gavras is hosted by UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.