Inner Migration

The film traces a woman’s inner migration through her childhood memories and the depiction of places and situations. In 1950, in her village in Macedonia, Northern Greece, we see her as a 10-year-old child; in 1956, in Thessaloniki, at the age of 16; and in 1960, her marriage in Athens marks a new phase of her life. Inner Migration, the director’s most autobiographical film, raises, in a pioneering manner, for its time, the issue of a woman's violent separation from her environment. At the same time, her transition from her place of birth to another place becomes the occasion for an internal journey through the times and spaces of memory. She is followed by echoes of the civil war, rock’n’roll, the poets she loved – Kostas Karyotakis, Titos Patrikios, Andreas Embirikos, books, films.