66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
Greek Films in Panorama: Films

1998 108 35mm Colour
The film unfolds on the island of Ikaria, in the late forties. It is the end of the civil war, and a small group of mountain guerillas puts a different interpretation on the Party line to «lay down their arms». This triggers a series of dramatic events which will cover the following six years. The guerillas' daily life; the crises they have to face; the solidarity as well as the conflicts that arise among them; their relationship with the people of the island (a cultured people, who, despite the directive of those in power and the political strategies of the times, succeed in maintaining their power and independence): all these events are recorded in this film, the aim of which is to reconstruct a period of modern Greek history which could be seen as critical in the formation of the political and social status quo of the decades that followed.