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Person-centred, travel documentary with Ina Tarantou.
Ina Tarantou travels and gets a view of the "Alterlife". The exact location is not important. The journey becomes the destination and life is experienced through the eyes of the persons she meets. Stories of people whose actions manifest optimism, strength and hope. Through their "eyes" we see life, history and the beauties of our country. People who, despite the adversities, never gave up, took risks and developed new businesses, brought to light unexploited parts of the Greek landscape, and revived local products.
Further or closer to the urban centres, each story lets us in with its own beauty to another side of the Greek landscape, Greek society and Greek reality. Sometimes looking to the future, other times tracing back the deep roots of the past. It is the conveyance of the feeling of...breathlessness. Up on the castle of Skyros, on the top of Mt. Helmos counting the stars, to the playing of the philharmonic orchestras in the alleyways of Corfu at Easter, reaching down to the Cavo D'oro, walking on a tightrope over the gorge of the Aoos river in Konitsa.
Because life is even more beautiful, when you see the Alterlife!
Today:
"Alterlife in Agrafa"
Episode 7
This trip was emotionally charged. Perhaps because people remain authentic in these remote places, the villages of Agrafa, but also because of the tragic history of the beautiful Lake Kremasta. Their genuineness made us get really close to them. They opened their hearts to us and told us their truths.
The inhabitants of the villages of Agrafa "had the character of a free man and were distinguished by courage and a spirit of independence to a degree not found in the rest of Greece". That's what the English historian, George Finlay, wrote and that's exactly what we saw here.
Directed by: Michalis Felanis
Host: Ina Tarantou
Available on ERTFLIX.
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