ELENI ALEXANDRAKI
She was born in Athens in 1957. She studied film at the University of Sorbonne, Paris 1, and at the National Film and TV School in England. A director, screenwriter, and producer of her films, she has created short films, feature films, and documentaries, as she believes there is no fundamental difference between the two genres. Her works have been honored with numerous awards in Greece and abroad at major international festivals. She is also an author and organizes a small film festival every summer on the island of Nisyros.
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From the Greek civil war to the war in Afghanistan, from the Franco years to the Covid years, from the French Island of Reunion to Siberia, many children have been violently uprooted from their natural environment for political reasons.
Through their testimonies, terrible and often unknown aspects of history emerge.
Seven stories of uprootings. Seven confessions.
A journey in space and time of ruthless politics…
This documentary deals with testimonies of people who, as children, were uprooted from their natural environment in different countries and at different times, from 1940 to 2021. Men and women from Spain, Greece, the former Soviet Union, the French island of Réunion and Afghanistan confide how they found themselves unwillingly uprooted from their homes, their families, and their countries, supposedly for their protection but mainly to be exploited. They tell about how they were displaced and confined, and about the political interests that were served by this violation of their lives. They share the pain of the loss of the life they were originally meant to live and the loss of their identity…
CREDITS
SCREENPLAY: Eleni Alexandraki, Jonathan Arnoult
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dionyssis Efthymiopoulos
EDITING: Vangelis Katsaros
MUSIC: Jonathan Arnoult
SOUND: Nikos Papadimitriou
AWARDS
THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
REVIEWS