Thomas Sideris

A documentary for the freedom of press and the human rights in Turkey .The violation of human rights, in a country juggling between the East and the West, is not only being present now, during the first and second decade of the new century, the time coinciding with the absolute power of one and only man: Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish 'democracy' cannot tolerate citizens of a different national, political or sexual identity.

A cinematic recording of the uprooting and wandering of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh, using the pomegranate as its central axis; people who have counted thousands of deaths over the past four decades, and their movement in gray and rainy landscapes where no one knows what is their own, where their borders are and what their homeland is.

Triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early spring of 2022, Ukrainian journalist and writer Ivan Avramov struggles to navigate his fluid identity and the shifting reality around him.

The parallel stories of four Pakistani immigrants in Greece become the trigger for the director to explore the story of his father, a worker in the Perama Shipyard. The background unfolds a most deadly shipwreck, Libyan immigrants found in limbo, as well as a (possibly racist) crime, which was committed during the shooting of this film.

The family of Giannis Anastasiadis, leaves the village of Aydoğdu in Pontus and takes the road of refuge, at the end of 1919, while his father has already perished in the forced labor camps. The family scatters like the dust of Anatolia. His sisters, Kerekia and Victoria, die of typhus. Giannis and Isaac are separated in 1919 and do not see each other for more than 60 years. Giannis comes to Greece, but he never stops looking for his brother and writing letters to him. After many attempts, a Turkish Wali delivers Giannis's letter to Isaac and then the road opens, so that the two brothers can meet again.

The greatest Kurdish poet Merwan Berekat in the ruins of his city. In the background, we see a wedding that took place 15 years, before the start of the war and 27 years before the creation of the film. A question arises and may never be answered: What happened to the bride, the groom, and everyone else in the wedding video?