Uprootings

MYRTO MANDA, a 12-year-old Greek schoolgirl, uprooted from her every-day life because of the Covid 19 pandemic lock down, appears discretely in between the six following characters creating links and pauses between their stories: The story of Greek GIANNIS ATZAKAS, son of a freedom fighter, who had to spend six years (1949-1955) in the Greek Child Care Cities that where orphanages created by Queen Fredericka of Greece, during the Greek Civil War to protect children from poverty and war but mainly to indoctrinate them against communism.The story of Greek SIFIS ZACHARIADIS who lived an exiled life in the former Soviet Union, as his father, after being for 25 years the leader of the Greek Communist Party, was a political convict in Siberia for 17 years, and his mother, also a member of the Greek Communist Party, stayed in prison in Greece for 18 years. The story of Spanish ENRIQUE OLIVERT who was a stolen baby at his birth, given for illegal adoption, during the Franco era as approximately 200 000 babies during this period. The story of Spanish MARIA MERCEDES BUENO MORALES, who’s baby was stolen at birth, five years after Franco’s death, even though democracy and the rule of law was supposedly being restored.The story of Reunionese JEAN PHILIPPE JEAN MARIE, one of the so called “Creuse Children”, who was taken forcefully to mainland France from his native island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, in 1963 at the age of ten. The story of Afghani REZWANA SEKANDARI, who ended up, in Greece in 2015 at the age of 14, being an unaccompanied child during the journey she undertook together with her whole family from Afghanistan so as to reach Europe.

• Writers: Ελένη Αλεξανδράκη, Jonathan Arnoult
• Producers: Pomegranate Films, Perspective Films
• Credits: Producer: Pomegranate Films σε συμπαραγωγή με την Perspective Films Με την υποστήριξη του Ελληνικού Κέντρου Κινηματογράφου Με την ευγενική υποστήριξη της Ταινιοθήκης της Ελλάδος