28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
Programme Sections: Recordings Of Memory

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Kyriakos Pimenidis relates his own personal truth about the days of his childhood in his homeland. It is a shocking narration about the terrible days in the 1920s in Kavak, on the outskirts of Samsun, on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. It is also about the painful wandering of the Greek Orthodox women and children of his village in exile. A mature man (the actor Akyllas Karazisis), surrounded today by Kyriakos’ narrations, attempts to enter his lost world, to feel Kyriakos’ experiences, to understand him. “Begone! Hide yourself! Lock yourself in! Blades are being sharpened! Heads will fall! Heads did fall! And now?”