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From 1985 to 1989, Konstantinos Pittas traveled alone across Europe. Armed with a compact 35mm MINOX camera, he captured 30,000 black-and-white photographs. His goal was to create a book showcasing Europeans—on both sides of the “Iron Curtain”—united, depicting a Europe without borders.
He took his last photo at the Berlin Wall the day after its fall. With the end of the "Cold War," he felt his project no longer had meaning. He stored the negatives in a box and moved on with his life.
Twenty-five years later, in 2014, he rediscovered the camera and the forgotten negatives. In the winter of 2019, on the 30th anniversary of reunification, Pittas visited Berlin and other European capitals to relive his journey, his “youthful madness,” in a completely different Europe.
Awards:
Nominated for the Iris Award by the Hellenic Film Academy
Best Documentary Award – International Film Festival of Ierapetra 2021
Best Director Award – International Film Festival of Ierapetra 2021
Best Original Music Award – International Film Festival of Ierapetra 2021
Best Director Award – West Side Mountain Doc Fest 2021
Best Original Music Award – West Side Mountain Doc Fest 2021
Best Cinematography Award – West Side Mountain Doc Fest 2021
Official Selection – 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2020
Official Selection – 9th Aegean Docs Documentary Festival
Official Selection – GrecDoc Festival 2021, Paris 2022
Script-Director: Lefteris Filaktos
Cinematography: Thanasis Bakopoulos, Stratos Theodosiou
Sound: Nikos Paliatsoudis
Editing: Lefteris Filaktos
Original Music: Thodoris Lempesis
Performance: ERT Contemporary Music Orchestra
Production Execution: Periklis Papadimitriou
Duration: 51 minutes
Production: ERT 2020
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