TiDF28: Discover 57 fascinating Greek documentaries

Thought-provoking, seat-gripping and up-to-the-minute, Greek documentaries draw their strength from personal testimonies and narrations, and reflect all social turbulences and dynamics of our times, taking center stage at the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, which will be held from 5 to 15 March, 2026, both in physical spaces and online.

A total of 57 full-length docs from Greece will be screened as part of the three competition sections (International Competition, Newcomers and >>Film Forward, but also in the Open Horizons and Platform+ sections, and the Festival’s Special Screenings.

The Festival offers for one more year its solid and wholehearted support to Greek documentaries, submitting a rental fee to all Greek films included in its official selection. The documentaries taking part in the extended Platform+ section will be screened at the Festival’s digital platform from 6 to 20 March, gaining a wider availability window for the audience.

Personal glances that cross paths with collective memory, the beneficiary use of archival footage as a self-reflection tool, the human body put to the test and identities placed under negotiation, the everyday angst of the urban metropolis and living in the boondocks, as well as the insightful recording of social tensions of the present-day make up the mosaic of the Greek documentaries taking part at the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.

The Greek Film Festival is held as prescribed by the law. The advisory committee assigned with the task of the films’ pre-selection was composed by Anna Antonopoulou (filmmaker), Leonidas Konstantarakos (producer) and Stratis Chatzielenoudas (film director).

Independent Awards

The Festival bestows a series of prestigious independent awards with the aim of promoting Greek cinema.

This year, within the wider framework of the new memorandum of collaboration signed between the Festival and the Municipality of Thessaloniki, a new award is being established, granted by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and accompanied by a 5,000-euro cash prize. As cities constitute the geometrical point of convergence for the lives and dreams of their residents, the corpus of Greek films eligible of the Municipality of Thessaloniki Award is given the title “City Stories”, including films that touch upon issues or unfold stories related to contemporary cities and the everyday life in them.

Here’s the full list of the Festival’s Independent Awards:

• The FISCHER Audience Awards.
• The “Human Rights in Motion” Award, established by the Council of Europe, highlights the close connection between documentary filmmaking and human rights, honoring the director whose film most effectively captures the struggle for freedom, democracy, and fundamental rights. This year marks the second consecutive presentation of the award across four leading European documentary festivals: the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, FIPADOC in Biarritz, Sheffield DocFest, and doclisboa in Lisbon. At Thessaloniki, the award – accompanied by a €5,000 cash prize – is open to films from the three competition sections that address human rights and democratic values“With this initiative, we aim to raise awareness of the work of the Council of Europe and support filmmakers who bring our principles and values to the big screen,” stated Theodoros Roussopoulos, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, announcing the establishment of the award. “Documentaries have the power to capture the impact of human rights violations with immediacy, awakening empathy and understanding.” The jury members are Toby Lee (film director and educator), Bassam Alasad (producer, green production consultant), Aimilios Charbis (journalist).
• The Hellenic Parliament presents its “Human Values” Award to an International Competition section film. The members of this year’s committee are: Aris Fatouros (director, Program Consultant of the Hellenic Parliament TV), Vassilis Douvlis (director, head of the Hellenic Parliament TV’s Programming Department), and Kostas Dimos (Hellenic Parliament TV Program collaborator).
• The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Jury, comprising distinguished film critics, presents two awards: one to the Best Documentary of the International Competition for Best Feature Length Documentary Program and one to a Greek film that participates in the three International Competition sections. The members of this year’s committee are: Ruggero Calich (Turkey), Stefanos Dalasis (Greece), and Stefanie Diekmann (Germany).
• Within the framework of the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ΕRΤ) will award two prizes: ERT will present its first award, which is accompanied by a €3,000 cash prize, to the Greek production that will win the FIPRESCI award. The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation will present the “ERT – Thessaloniki Pitching Forum” award, which is accompanied by a €2,000 cash prize, to the best Greek project participating at the Thessaloniki Pitching Forum, which will be selected by the Forum committee.
• The Alpha Bank Accessibility Award is bestowed on a film from Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival’s official selection. The award is accompanied by a cash prize of 3,000 euros and awarded to either a personality or a film that highlights accessibility issues in the arts.
• In the framework of the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (EKKOMED) will award two prizes: A €3,000 prize award to a Greek documentary participating in Agora Docs in Progress; and a €3,000 prize award to a debut documentary feature (over 50 minutes) that premieres in the Greek Program.
• The Amnesty International Award brings in contact two institutions that share a strong sensibility and similar goals: they both operate on a complementary level, with the Festival promoting and screening films by documentarists that reveal the brutal violation of Human rights, and with Amnesty International then taking on the difficult task of mobilizing, exerting pressure and raising public awareness. The experts on human rights issues comprising the jury are: Mirella Legaki (economist, vice-president of the Greek Confederation of Cine-Clubs), Gina Petropoulou (documentary filmmaker and producer, artistic director of the Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival), Andreas Yolassis (architect, visual artist, poet, member of the Greek section of Amnesty International).
• The WWF Greece Award is bestowed by the WWF Greece organization to the best film of environmental interest. The members of this year’s WWF jury are: Katherine Embiricos (Head of International Engagement – Museum of Cycladic Art, Film Producer), Yukiko Krontira (Communications Associate, WWF Greece), and Giannis Kantea-Papadopoulos (film critic).
• The Youth Jury Awards bestowed by Students of the School of Film of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who will grant the and will present the Best Film Award and the Special Jury Award. Eligible for these awards are Greek films participating in the International Program. Youth Jury supervisor: Apostolos Karakasis, Professor in Film and Television Theory & History, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This year’s jury members are: Filippos Beerstecher-Gravanis, Anastasia Maria Glikopoulou, and Irodotos Katsaris.
• The WIFT GR Award is presented by the Greek Chapter of WIFT (Women in Film & Television) to a woman filmmaker of a film selected for the official international competition sections of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The members of this year’s committee are Niovi Anazikou (journalist, documentarist, WIFT GR Vice President), Adamantia Fytili (producer, WIFT GR member), and Maria Giannouli (filmmaker, screenwriter, WIFT GR member).
• The Greek Association of Film Critics Award, as every year, is bestowed to the Best Greek Film that is screened in the official selection of the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The decision is made by the General Assembly of the members that have attended the Festival.

Let’s take a glance at the 28th TIDF’s:

International Competition

Bugboy

Lucas Paleocrassas

George, a shy teenager with misaligned eyes, struggles to connect with others after his parents’ divorce. Finding refuge in the world of insects, he bonds with a cricket named Isabella. Through a portrait of transformation and self-discovery, the film reminds us that even the smallest creatures can help us find where we belong.

The Golden Grip

Fokion Bogris

In the mid-1960s, Kostas left his village in Crete dreaming of becoming a star. His rugged physique and humble background afforded him only small “tough-guy” roles, yet in numerous Greek films – from big studio productions and renowned auteur masterpieces to low-budget exploitation films alike. By placing a support actor at centerstage, the film traces five decades of Greek cinema.

The Way Elsewhere

Eirini Vourloumis

A portrait of Athens told through the lives of three veteran taxi drivers who move through the city as quiet dreamers. Konstantinos is approaching retirement after half a century behind the wheel, and begins each shift with a private ritual beneath the Acropolis. Sunny, a Nigerian actor and family man, drifts between faith, fatigue and a desire to return to artistic expression. Yorgos, an innate performer, sings love songs in small clubs at night. Blending observation with musical sequences, the film inhabits routine, memory and desire in a city shaped by crisis and persistence.

Newcomers Competition

At No Cost

Mary Bouli

Danae works at a bar, but dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. She is one of the many young women in Athens struggling to make ends meet. She decides to become an egg donor. Why not? Sounds like it comes at no cost. But the procedure is not that simple.

EXILE(S), Tales from an Island

Yorgos Iliopoulos

A hundred years after the Treaty of Lausanne, the people of Imbros search for a new present, with the aftershocks of population movements still visible around them. Ruined villages, lives lost to time, customs and rituals braided into a singular cultural palimpsest, where memories and borders keep shifting. Yet coexistence is never easy.

Tiny Gods

Panos Deligiannis

Life is a constant movement between the depths of our personal universe and the surface of the world. We dive within ourselves, emerge into everyday life. We oscillate from introspection to extroversion, from our microcosm to the real world. This pendulum is the story of the artist Kleio Gizeli, a pendulum that reaches from the secret space of an apartment to the visible world of a school classroom, from a penthouse in Kypseli, Athens to the life of its streets, from miniature works to the social work of education. This pendulum is the story of the film, the pendulum of a woman but also of all of us.

>>Film Forward Competition

Dear Future

Christian Cheiranagnostaki

An underground archive in the Arctic, museum artefacts awaiting their fate in a storage room in the Netherlands, hidden rock markings in a forest in Switzerland, and a neuroscience study on emotion, reveal a world paused, turning inward, waiting to be shaped by memory and nature; a liminal space between what’s lost and what’s yet to come.

Horse and Rider

Panayotis Evangelidis

Three days of an encounter between two persons in a Thessaloniki hotel, during a July heatwave. Sylvia and Yannis talk, joke, look at each other, are taken by surprise, fall in love, and learn to listen to the sounds of the surrounding world, weaving their own cocoon. Time counts backwards.

Stories of a Lie

Olia Verriopoulou

During a stay in Greece, the filmmaker’s native country, she learns about a friend’s illness. The patient's doctors and family are hiding it from her, so the filmmaker has to keep it a secret as well. She starts to remember, bewildered. Having grown up in a medical environment, she recalls being part of this approach in the past and assesses that it has affected her loved ones. She decides to talk to her father, a doctor; this is the beginning of an intimate quest, in an attempt to understand the reasoning behind medical lies…

Special Screenings

Running on Waves

Yannis Karapiperidis

As Yorgos Papalios trains for the Athens Marathon, his remarkable life unfolds – from shipping dynasties and revolutionary Cuba to the shaping of Greek cinema and cultural policy – revealing a personal journey that echoes the modern history of Greece.

Thrax Punks Kuzin

Giorgio Spyridis

What's the most delicious? The spicy traditional thracian red trahana, the uniquely executed neapolitan-style Canotto pizza, or the fantastic thracian-chinese fusion from the incredible Evros? Thrax Punks music band create a unique punk culinary feast, offering an alternative, satisfying musical pandemonium.

We Live Among You

Maria Katsikadakou (aka Maria Cyber)

What could a lesbian activist, a conservative person, a gay pornstar, an actor, a trans boy, a nurse, a teacher, a city councilor, a marketer, and a bunch of other people, parading one after the other in this documentary, possibly have in common? They all have type 1 diabetes. “Ten years ago in Athens, a group of sweet-hearted people came together with a shared purpose to give visibility to something that too often goes unseen: diabetes.”

Why the Mountains Are Black: Rituals

Foivos Kontogiannis

How does music mark what unfolds between life and death? Can a musical ritual be both ancient and contemporary, nostalgic yet absolutely relevant? Throughout Greece and the southern Balkans, music-making is often linked with the customs and traditions of the cycle of life – events of exceptional significance for every community.

Open Horizons

...One Road the Sea

Voula Kostaki

Far away is only where you do not wish to go. Α mission of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation television channel ERT, where the sea becomes a bridge, where volunteering is transformed into a journey of life for Greece’s frontier islanders: 450 nautical miles, 5,525 medical examinations, 18 medical specialties, 132 volunteers. The cry of our remote islands and the whisper of offering blend with the soul of the Aegean.

Achilleas Kyriakidis – Until Thursday Dawns

Angeliki Floraki

An observational documentary that captures moments from the everyday life of Achilleas Kyriakidis. Between speech and silence, the man behind the writer, the translator and the filmmaker gradually emerges. A portrait of the unseen.

Bitter Chocolate

Alexandros Skouras

The implementation of a European organic cultivation program in a Ghanaian cocoa-farming community, questions the power of the traditional authority and confronts the aspirations of young farmers, who long for a future outside their homeland.

Born Twice

Stelios Kouloglou

At 11, Simon Gronowski jumped from his mother’s arms on a Nazi train bound for Auschwitz. Eighty years later, he plays jazz, speaks in schools, and befriends the son of a Nazi. A film about survival, memory, and forgiveness — told with intimacy, music, and the force of one man’s refusal to hate. His story is a warning, and a gift.

Echoes of Beneath

Vasilis Barachanos

After a motorbike accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Antonis Tsapatakis turns to swimming and becomes a Paralympic athlete. Through training, family, and everyday moments, the film observes the slow process of redefining identity, resilience, and freedom after irrevocable changes of life.

Eva’s Immunity

Yannis Misouridis

Eva, a middle-aged painter and eccentric performer, teeters between madness and human comedy, love and the fear of death. Besides, she suffers from “Albertine Syndrome,” forever falling in love with the heroine of her own work. This passion pushes her to the brink of madness. In daily life, she struggles with caring for her schizophrenic mother and facing a serious illness. Can art become her salvation?

Hot Cold Wet Dry

Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Marios Kleftakis

When Singapore was founded in 1965, its leader Lee Kuan Yew famously said that it will “not only become a Metropolis, but it will last a thousand years, and it is people who calculate, and think in those terms, who deserve to survive.” Half a century on, as breakdown engulfs many of the world’s cities, Singapore carries on glamorously. But at what cost?

Mary

Yannis Gaitanidis, Persefoni Miliou

Mary, a bodybuilder, is preparing for her last competition in Hamburg. Between demanding workouts, work, and single-parent family obligations, she reevaluates her relationship with her body. The film observes her over an extended period of changes, as her obsession with physical perfection shifts toward a growing spiritual need.

Multiple Reflections of You. Winter Swimmers

Yannis Angelakis, Andreas Siadimas

The band called “Winter Swimmers”; the diverse family of amateur and professional musicians who follow the vision of “father” Argyris Bakirtzis; musical creation as a common component of different trends through strong artistic and personal bonds; a 60-year presence in Greece’s cultural life.

Once Upon a Time I Reached America

Angelos Kovotsos

The remarkable story of Yorgos Katsaros, virtuoso of Greek folk guitar and rebetiko, is the story of Greek folk musicians in America from the early 20th century to today. It is the story of rebetiko. It is the story of Greek migrants and their diaspora.

Railcars in the Rain

Thomas Sideris

A century of forced journeys in the Balkans unfolds as displaced lives move through wars and borders, like railcars drifting through the rain. From two childhood testimonies of exile during WWI and WWII, the film weaves a century-long Balkan journey of displacement, where borders shift, soldiers return in new uniforms, and human lives move endlessly, like railcars in the rain.

Representations

Nikoleta Leousi, Eirini Steirou

Marpissa is a village in the Aegean Sea that celebrates Easter in its own unique way: On Good Friday, all daily routines come to a halt as eleven scenes from the Passion of Christ are brought to life by villagers portraying figures such as Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Pontius Pilate. It’s not only a religious act; it is also the expression of pride in creating a spectacle.

Sacred Way, 21 km

Nikoleta Paraschi

The Sacred Way of Athens, once a path of initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries, prompts the director to search for spiritual meaning along the busy motorway it has now become. Following the traces of the ancient route, the diverse landscape and brief encounters with its current inhabitants reveal the different faces of the world’s oldest Sacred Way.

Square of the Unseen

Theodore Selekos

In the heart of Athens, Omonia Square stands as a paradox amid the city’s gentrification. We move through this hidden world, where lives on the margins leave handwritten traces etched onto urban surfaces. Through these words and images, the film reveals an Athens of shadows and truths rarely seen.

Survivors – Reclaiming Her Myth

Maria Louka, Nina Maria Paschalidou

Survivors – Reclaiming Her Myth follows Olga, Georgia, and Ivi in a writing workshop where they process trauma through myths tied to their pain – Persephone’s abduction for Georgia, Europe taken by Zeus for Olga, Alcestis’s sacrifice for Ivi – transforming these narratives into sources for empowerment.

Tell Me

Nikos Megrelis

Photographer Renée Revah retraces the route from Thessaloniki, where her ancestors were deported, to Auschwitz and Birkenau, confronting her genealogical trauma and mentally conversing with her grandfather while seeking to heal.

The Night Smells of Jasmine

Antonis Kokkinos

Inside Korydallos women’s prison, incarcerated women share fragments of their lives before and during imprisonment. Through memories, daily routines, and the choices that shaped them, the film weaves individual voices into a collective portrait of life behind bars and enduring hope.

The Public Private House – 9 Stanzas for Athens

Tassos Langis

How does the future of Athens appear through the eyes of those who inhabit its architecture? The film follows four young women who live together with their pets in a penthouse on Acharnon Street, focusing on a participatory documentation “from within,” where academics, residents, buildings, and other creatures share the same narrative space.

Those Who Touched War

Michalis Kastanidis, Io Chaviara

The PYRKAL ammunition factory once supplied wars all over the world. Today, it lies abandoned. As a high-risk decontamination effort uncovers explosives still buried beneath its soil, four former workers guide us through its ruins and their memories – their pride in their craft, their sorrow for its tragedies, and the contradictions of making a living producing death.

Vilma: The Last Goodbye

Costas Bakirtzis, Kostis Stamoulis

A cinematic farewell to Thessaloniki’s Vilma cinema, which closed in December 2024 as Greece’s last traditional erotic movie theater. At the same time, a salute to the legendary porn cinemas “Laikon” in Thessaloniki and “Star” in Athens, temples of the genre in the country’s two largest cities. Famous and unknown alike join this final goodbye.

Waves Won’t Stop

Ioannis Papaloizou

An experimental documentary in which the narrator evokes his childhood memories of Cyprus, and his connection to an indelible friendship defined by separation. Waves Won’t Stop is an intimate look at a long journey of return. A poetic meditation on memory, belonging, and the enduring pull of homeland.

Where Shadows Rest

Marianna Economou

Kostas, a 75-year-old diver, makes his living raising toxic shipwrecks from a polluted seabed. As the community around him dreams of environmental renewal, an ancient Greek underworld myth resurfaces through a doomed vessel he vows to save. When a long-buried secret from Kostas's past unexpectedly emerges, the mission collapses, triggering an existential reckoning. Moving between ritual, memory, and decay, the film becomes a journey into the shadows of both the natural world and the human soul-where truth, guilt, and the possibility of healing finally surface.

Women Fighters – 3rd Part 1960-1974

Leonidas Vardaros

With the completion of the third part of the trilogy, a debt is also repaid to the anonymous women who stood up in dark times – from the 1-1-4 movement and the Lambrakis Youth to the torture chambers of EAT-ESA and the General Security. Portraits of ordinary women who experienced firsthand the true value of struggle.

Platform+

All of Them Present

Thanos Koutsandreas

Alexandros, head of the cultural department of a well-known cultural center, spends his last day alone recalling great artistic moments, with lost friends and very important people of art with whom he lived there for the last 25 years, which he tells us based on archival material.

Breathing on Land

Kallirroi Kostikoglou, Vangelis Pyrpylis

The land remembers those who work it. A handful of the last tobacco farmers who live on the shores of Greece’s largest lake, with the drained fields resisting oblivion in the history of tobacco. From a national product to the decline of rural areas, a centuries-old tradition refuses to die out.

Giorgos Tziokas: The Painter of Poetry

Νikos Papakostas

The documentary follows the life and work of the artist Giorgos Tziokas, who became known for his illustrations of great works by famous Greek artists – such as Manos Hadjidakis and his famous record Gioconda’s Smile, and Odysseas Elytis, whose famous collection Axion Esti granted him the Nobel Prize.

HillTen

George Papastamoulos

In the heart of Kenya, an Irish pastor with no coaching experience teaches his athletes something more important than running: how to change their lives. At 2,500 meters on Kenya’s legendary Tenth Hill, brother Colm O’Connell turns the unknown Iten into a cradle of Olympians, shaping not only champions, but visionaries.

Khalil, Please Answer…

Alexia Tsouni, Haim Schwarczenberg

Palestinian researcher and activist Khalil Abu Yahia manages to survive three critical surgeries for his spinal cord cancer. He was eventually killed at the age of 28, along with his wife and their daughters, in an Israeli bombing in Gaza in October 2023. His friends unite in Jerusalem and amplify his voice for a free Palestine for all.

Life Has Meaning Only When Shared

Ioannis Xirouchakis

Kostis believed solidarity is action in the present as well as a guideline for society in the future, so he proposed new forms of collective action, giving renewed momentum and identity to the solidarity movement. His work, his activism, and the exemplary life he led left a deep imprint. Has social solidarity changed since? What form does it take today?

Mankind’s Folly

Yorgos Avgeropoulos

On opposite sides of the Bering Strait, Nikita in Siberia and Martha in Alaska watch their world collapse. Ancient permafrost thaws, destabilizing not only their communities and lives but also the planet itself. Meanwhile, as climate pledges fade and energy security becomes the global doctrine, fossil-fuel giants expand aggressively in the Arctic.

Margaritari

Alexis Tsafas, Lina Damaskopoulou

Through candid interviews, narrative flow, and a hybrid combination of observational and archival material, the film explores Margaritari’s unique self-expression. At its core lies their artistic practice within the fields of comics and the independent queer pornographic scene.

Mato

Nikos Zoiopoulos

80-year-old aunt Mato lives in a remote Greek village. Even though she works hard for her daily bread, she considers life a gift. The documentary was shot during the Kosovo war. Echoes of the war permeate the village’s quiet life.

NORMaL

Anastasis Dallis

What is our relationship with nature? What exactly do we eat? How urgent is it to talk about the climate crisis? The film tells the story of Maria, who returned to her village to ensure self-sufficiency, cultivating the land in the purest possible way.

Passing the Torch

Yiorgos Tsivranidis

We follow the trail of a mysterious torchlight procession (lampadephoria) on the Greek island of Naxos. As myths, memories, and faces unravel, we discover that the gods of the past may still walk among us through the hands of those who dare to remember and create.

Persians – A Journey in the Array of Souls

Dimitris Kamarotos

A cinematic film that utilizes footage and recordings from a theatrical performance to present Aeschylus' Persians in a contemporary and unique way. The aim is not to document the production process but to create a standalone work of art, an independent cinematic experience that engages with Aeschylus' classical tragedy in today's context.

Sculpting Light

George Elianos

Between America and Thessaloniki, the life of sculptor Anna Christoforidou unfolds. The film observes her visiting the school where she once studied, engaging with young artists, and creating her final work in hand-formed clay. She plays the piano and dances, revealing a life in which art permeates everyday existence.

Single Headlocks

Panagiotis Papoutsis

Maria Prevolaraki’s journey follows a Greek athlete fighting against hardship, limited support, and relentless conditions as she chases what may be her final Olympic chance. Her story reveals a lifelong struggle on and off the mat, driven by resilience, passion, and an unbreakable vow to rise every time she falls.

The Engraver

Sissy Morfi

A journey into the “atelier” of the engraver Christoforos Katsadiotis, where traditional engraving converges with the moving image. His artistic gaze upon society, religion, and human nature. The vandalism of his works at the National Gallery by a member of Parliament sparked a profound public discourse on the freedom of artistic expression.

The Greek Experiment

Panos Charitos

The Greek Experiment is a political documentary that captures the trajectory of the economy and society, and the imprint of crisis on the political scene of Greece during the period 2015–2025.

The Last Fir

Ion Efthimiou, Panagiotis Kiriakakis

Parnitha, one of Greece’s most important ecosystems, now stands at the center of major corporate investment plans. The national forest closest to a European capital is gradually being pushed down a path of systematic degradation, with the threat of destruction now clearly visible. Who ultimately benefits when even the last fir tree is lost?

The Mummy Project

Aris Lychnaras

A documentary about the Egyptian Mummy Research Program from the National Archaeological Museum. CT scans transform each exhibit into a narrator that brings to light rituals, fears, hopes, and stories that transcend time.

The Strafdivision “999”

Kostas Stamatopoulos

The documentary The Strafdivision “999” presents the little-known story of German and Austrian political prisoners who were forced to serve in a Nazi punishment unit in occupied Greece. Many deserted and joined ELAS, actively resisting fascism.

Tracing Moments

Penelope Fatourou

A chronicle of Lefkada in 1960, documented through archival material by a member of a Swiss humanitarian organization, whose work constitutes photographic anthropology. The spontaneous images became windows into moments and relationships of people who, in a harsh environment, gave their best. Through them, coexistence, survival, dignity, and culture are recorded as a heritage. The island in Western Greece serves as a reflection of a shared experience in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas of the country and brings to life an era that will never return.

Following our successful collaboration, documentaries created through the educational programs of the Chania Film Festival will be presented on the Festival’s platform, as part of the initiative “Travelling with my Documentary Film 2026”.