Documentaries

A lighthouse keeper of the island Othonoi for 17 years, Sotiris Politis from Meganisi, Lefkada, recounts his adventures in the seas of Greece. Narrator: Sotiris Politis Researcher: Maria Makri Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Alex Retsis Sound Editing: Dimitris...

In a village in Laconia during the German occupation, Germans and Italians suddenly come to inspect the home of a family hiding soldiers from New Zealand. Narrator: Dimitris Doukas Researcher: Dimitris Moschos Podcast Creation: Stavros VlachosSound Design: Iasonas TheofanouSound Editing: Michael...

Raids, marches, ambushes, and stone-throwing. Giannis Politakos, as a teenager, participates in hooligan groups in the 1980s. Narrator: Giannis Politakos Researcher: Parisis Giorgos Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou Sound Editing: Dimitris...

In the Pierian Mountains during the Greek Civil War, two young guerillas get married and have a baby. When their group is pursued by a detachment of the National Army, the crying endangers their position. Narrator: Pavlos Aetopoulos Researcher: Kalliopi Tsakpounidou Podcast...

After decades, a German soldier returns to Crete and searches for the family of Chariklia Fournaraki, in whose house he lived during the Occupation. Narrator: Fournaraki Chariklia Researcher: Maria Latinaki Podcast creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Sound...

A passenger of the "Express Samina" which sunk in September 2000 near the island of Paros, Apostolos Giannios recounts the nightmarish moments leading up to the rescue with shocking composure. Can the nightmare ever be erased? How do memories persist after years? Narrator: Apostolos Giannios Researcher:...

In January 1946, four-year-old Dimitra Petroula is playing in the yard of her house in Mani, when armed men from organization X suddenly appear. "Where's your mother, kid?" they ask her. Narrator: Dimitra Petroula Researcher: Antonia Michalakakou Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound...

A young man is looking for a job in the years of the economic crisis and is confronted with unbelievable situations. Narrator: Alexandros Konstantinidis Researcher: Stathis Konstantinidis Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou Audio...

Thirty years old today, Giorgos Tzovanis grew up in the 1990s, very differently from other children his age. He lived with his family in a makeshift cattle hut in the mountains of Arcadia without electricity and running water, helped his parents with their work from the age of five and walked for more...

In a field outside Palaiokastro, Serres in the 1950s, a family grows poppies without knowing the "side effects" of the plant. Narrator: Alexandridou Koula Researcher: Konstantinos Doganis Podcast creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Nikolas Konstantinou Audio...

Born of a Greek mother and a Ghanaian father, Loukas Loukas shows us what happens when your identity “doesn't match” the color of your skin. Narrator: Loukas Kemavor Researcher: Koutsogiannis Vasilis Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Dim...

Who was the legendary fairy of Amorgos, who was magically “tied” and then married to the pirate, Yiorgos Kaoutsos? Her great-grandson Antonis Roussos tells her story. Narrator: Antonis Roussos Researcher: Ευθυμία Παπαγιαννοπούλου Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou Sound Design: Alex Retsis S...

In occupied Vermio in 1942, sixteen-year-old Giorgos Aslanidis joins the guerrillas. He takes part in battles, escapes death many times and witnesses the massacre of his village by the Nazis and their collaborators. Narrator: Giorgos Aslanidis Researcher: Niki Fotiadou Podcast...

When the Germans burn the village of Kosmas in Arcadia, Yorgos Mermigkas loses everything. Greek Nazi collaborators also participate in the burning. Years later, he comes face to face with one of them. Narrator: Yorgos Mermigkas Researcher: Angeliki Katti Podcast Creation:...

During the civil war, in Laconia, Vasilis Georgoulis joins Organization X and takes part in raids with the armed gang of the notorious Giannis Pavlakos. Narrator: Vasilis Georgoulis Researcher: Victoria Delakovia Podcast Creation: Stavros Vlachos Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou Audio...

In 1971 a rich uncle brings a television to Manolis Bardanis' house, the first television in the village of Apeiranthos of Naxos. Immediately, all the neighbors gather to see this strange acquisition. Narrator: Manolis Bardanis Researcher: Efthymia Papagiannopoulou Podcast creation: Maya...