Uprootings

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25th TiDF: International Premiere

From the Greek civil war to the war in Afghanistan, from the Franco years to the years of the pandemic, and 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.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Available at the Agora Market TiDF25
Direction: Eleni Alexandraki
Script: Eleni Alexandraki, Jonathan Arnoult
Cinematography: Dionysis Efthymiopoulos
Editing: Vaggelis Katsaros
Sound: Nikos Papadimitriou
Music: Jonathan Arnoult
Producers: Eleni Alexandraki, Gaëlle Jones
Co-production: Greek Film Centre – Special Covid-19 Funding Scheme
Format: DCP
Color: Color, B/W
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2022
Duration: 98'
Distribution in Greece: Feelgood Entertainment, (Irini Souganidou, isouganidou@feelgoodentertainment.gr)
Contact: Eleni Alexandraki (elenialexandrakis@gmail.com)

Eleni Alexandrakis

She was born in 1957 in Athens. She studied Cinema at Sorbonne (Paris I, graduated in 1980) and at the National Film and TV School in the United Kingdom (and graduated in 1985). She writes, directs, and produces fiction and documentary films, guided by the belief there is no difference between the two. Her films have won several awards in Greece and abroad.

Filmography

1990 The Children of Greece (TV)
1994 Tonia Marketaki (short doc)
1995 A Drop in the Ocean 
1999 Easter is in the Air (doc)
2002 About the Holy and Mysterious Myhr (doc)
2018 Costis Papagiorgis, the Sweetest Misanthrope (doc)
2019 Angel and the Weightlifter
2022 Uprootings (doc)
2024 Giannis in the Cities