its release in a series of territories within 2019 and its participation in several consequent international film festivals (Beaune International Thriller Festival, Istanbul IFF, BiFan International Fantastic Film Festival, etc.). Critical response was mostly favourable, with Guardian's Peter Bradshaw giving the film 3/5 stars while calling it "a Lynchian psychodrama in the sun" and Savina Petkova of Electric Ghost Magazine giving the film 5/5 stars, writing that "while the film is saturated with Biblical quotes, icons of saints, and church choir songs, its form attends equally to the lowly human, animal, and nature.” The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International and Variety praised the film the direction, the bold characters, the imagery and the unflinching performances by Angeliki Papoulia and Youla Boudali, while criticising elements of the script's narrative construction. In 2020, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea was nominated for 12 Hellenic Film Academy Awards, winning two (Best Director for Syllas Tzoumerkas and Best Actress for Angeliki Papoulia). As an actor, Syllas Tzoumerkas participated in feature films Wasted Youth (2011) by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel (Rotterdam International Film Festival) and The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas (2013) by Elina Psykou (Berlin International Film Festival). In 2016, Syllas Tzoumerkas co-signed the script and appeared as an actor in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' film Suntan (Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016, SXSW 2016, Best International Film - Edinburgh International Film Festival). Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Syllas Tzoumerkas won the Best Screenplay Award of the FEST International Film Festival and the 2017 Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay. In 2019, he co-signed with Ahmad Ghossein and Abla Khoury, the script of Ahmad Ghossein's feature film All This Victory. All This Victory, a co-production of Lebanon, France and Qatar, premiered in Venice Critics' Week 2019, where it was awarded with the Audience Award. In 2020, he appeared as an actor in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' feature film Monday, in the part of Manos. Filmography Theatre Syllas Tzoumerkas' theatre work includes stage performances Debate (Bios theatre, Diaspora theatre group, 2011) and High and Low - A Murderer in Tokyo (Onassis Cultural Centre, Diaspora theatre group), both co-directed with Youla Boudali. In 2015, he participated at the Onassis Cultural Centre's production of the omnibus performance X-Apartments - Athens (concept by Matthias Lilienthal, curated by Katia Arfara and Anna Mülter), with the segment Α Farewell to the Traitor from a Lower-Middle-Class House in Larissa Station, Athens (based on a letter by Flavius