Sound Seekers

A portrait of two families by way of the intimate world of conjugal visits at Idrizovo, North Macedonia’s most notorious prison, and the effect it has on them and the world around them.

Elena, a young woman with HIV meets a young romantic man, Fillip, at a traffic intersection in the city of Skopje. They spend the next couple of days walking around the city and getting to know each other, forming a special bond. Their strong feelings for each other make them long for more time together, leading them to reveal more about themselves than they normally would, since both believe they will never see one another again. And what if their once in a lifetime encounter at the street light was just a possibility for creating a story, which might have never ever happen even happened?

In the spring of 1948, after the Second World War, a tragedy of large proportions took place in the southern part of the Balkans. As a result of the Civil War in Greece, over 28,000 children between age of 2 and 14, with tears in their eyes, were separated from their parents and siblings and transferred to various East European countries, to be saved from the consequences of the war. Growing up in group homes and camps across Eastern Europe, far away from their families, they carried with them the burden of the memories to all those events. With the assistance of Red Cross they searched for their lost ones over the years. The film portrays the testimonials from some of these 28,000 children refugees who were evacuated from their homes in northern Greece between 1948 and 1949 during the Greek Civil War.