38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Ap'to Hioni
Greece
1993 Fiction 1h30
Two young refugees, Greeks from Albania, cross the border to "return to their country". A boy whose mother has been killed by Albanian frontier guards shares intheir adventures. They soon discover that the reality in Greece falls short of their expectations.
With : Gerassimos Skiadaressis, Vassilis Eleftheriadis, Antonis Manolas, Mania Papadimitriou.
Screenplay : Sotiris Goritsas
Image : Stamatis Yannoulis
Sound : Nikos Papadimitriou
Music : Nikos Kypourgos
Editing : Takis Koumoundouros
Decors : Youla Zoiopoulou
Production : Hyperion Productions, 4A, Ekatis str., 11364 Kypseli Athens
Sotiris Goritsas was born in Athens in 1955. Having studied at the London International Film School, he made several documentaries from 1985 onwards, as well as a fiction film for Greek television. He has also written a medium-lenght film, "Despina", which won an award at Thessalonika, in 1990.