From a chain-smoking self-exiled couch potato, Marios Giannakou became the youngest athlete ever to run cross country the “Al Marmoom” (the longest desert marathon in the world) reminding us that nothing is impossible to achieve.
Marios Giannakou – Chasing the Impossible
Marios Giannakou – Chasing the Impossible
24th TDF: World Premiere

Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Maria Giannouli
- Script: Maria Giannouli
- Cinematography: Stelios Pissas
- Editing: Eftychia Iosifidou
- Sound: Panos Papadimitriou
- Production: ERT SA
- Producers: Eleftherios Fylaktos
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Greece
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 28΄
- Distribution in Greece: ERT SA (Lefteris Fylaktos, efylaktos@ert.gr)
- Contact: ERT SA (Lefteris Fylaktos, efylaktos@ert.gr)
Maria Giannouli
Filmography
1995 Illusions (short)
1996 No Woman, No Cry (short)
2002 Athinas St. 12 am (short)
2008 Agora 11 am (short)
2011 Survivors (short)
2014 Samios (short)
2017 Adelfia Tade (short)
2017 Charlotte Rampling – Notebooks (short)
2019 Philip Roth – Notebooks (short)
2021 Marios Giannakou – Chasing the Impossible
2022 Nicolas and Maria
1996 No Woman, No Cry (short)
2002 Athinas St. 12 am (short)
2008 Agora 11 am (short)
2011 Survivors (short)
2014 Samios (short)
2017 Adelfia Tade (short)
2017 Charlotte Rampling – Notebooks (short)
2019 Philip Roth – Notebooks (short)
2021 Marios Giannakou – Chasing the Impossible
2022 Nicolas and Maria