Sofia Sfyri was born in Athens in 1990. She studied Film (BA) at the University of Westminster, and Performance (MA) at Central Saint Martins, in London. Since she graduated, she has been working as an director, editor, and assistant director. She has worked on projects for APPLE TV+, VOGUE, the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, et al. In 2020-21, she received the “Artworks” fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, for her work as a visual artist. Her first short documentary, Zabeta (2021, co-directed by Elissavet Sfyri), won the Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was nominated for a Hellenic Film Academy Award. Her second short film, Spiti (2024), was awarded with the Silver Athena prize at the Athens IFF. In May 2025, it had its international premiere at InsideOut Toronto. The last two feature documentaries she has edited (“In the Image of Human”, “Sexability: A story about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Love”) premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.