Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Palestinian filmmaker, based in Scotland. His work explores themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and archives.

His most recent film is a documentary essay called The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing which won Best Short Film at IDFA, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a BAFTA award and a European Film Award. 

He recently completed  a practice-as-research PhD at the University of West of Scotland which explored decolonial methodologies and performance as a counter narrative to rarely seen film archives of 1930s Palestine.