ldomeni, in 2016; In this small village on the Greek-Macedonian border, an old lady recounts stories about locals who crossed the borderline and never came back. While her narrations reconstruct the History of the border, some Palestinians from Syria, living in the refugee settlement that has been built right next to the village, decide to set up a kindergarten. Thus, instead of waiting passively for the border to open, they exist in the present, they envision the future and they create conditions that bring them closer to a feeling of a home.
AWARD 7th Athens International Digital Film Festival, Best Documentary Award
23RD ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – GREEK SHORT STORIES – IN COMPETITION
19TH THESALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, 2017
8TH BALKAN BEYOND BORDERS FILM FESTIVAL, BRUSSELS – BELGIUM
8TH ETHNOFEST – ATHENS ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL
5TH CHANIA FILM FESTIVAL
11TH GREEK DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF CHALKIDA – DOCFEST
4TH INTERNATIONAL PELOPONNESIAN DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
4TH INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL OF IERAPETRA
6TH BODDINALE FESTIVAL, BERLIN – GERMANY
CINEMARKT – BRUNNENPASSAGE – VIENNA -AUSTRIA
CHEAP CUTS SHORT DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, LONDON – UK
ETONNANTS VOYAGEURS, ST MALO – FRANCE
FESTIVAL OF MIGRANT FILM, LJUBLJANA – SLOVENIA
7TH TETOVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, TETOVO, NORTH MACEDONIA
GRECDOC DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL , PARIS
REFUGEE WEEK, DEVON / PORTLAND / MIDPORT , UK
AUS DER NACHT HERAUS FILM FEST , BERLIN
KINO IN DER REITSCHULE, BERN, SWITZERLAND
OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE PROGRAM EUFORIA ΙΙ/ EUROPEAN FILMS FOR INNOVATIVE AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT 2016-2017 (CREATIVE EUROPE, MEDIA) ORGANIZED BY THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, «CINEMA IN EXILE: DOCUMENTING DIASPORA» – GREECE, POLAND, HUNGARY.
ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY FOR GLOBAL FAIR FILM SCREENINGS, HALIFAX-CANADA
CREDITS
PRODUCED BY Fabula Productions
CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION & DIRECTION lo Chaviara, Michalis Kastanidis
EDITING Michalis Kastanidis
SOUND DESIGN & MIXING Pavlos Gkousios
ADDITIONAL EDITING Yiannis Kolozis
INTERVIEWS IN ARABIC Emmanuel Haddad
TRANSLATION (ARABIC) Emad Alahmad
SUBTITLES, TRANSLATION (GREEK) Elias Diamesis
TRANSLATION (KURDISH) Hajeer Ranjbari & Badin Kobani
TRANSLATION (FRENCH) Orestis Chrysikopoulos
COLOR GRADING/ DCP AUTHORING Aggelos Mantzios
GRAPHIC DESIGN lo Chaviara
