SH GR “The Frame” – Vasilis Nikas, Greece, 2025, 10’22”

Synopsis: An old man visits the dilapidated house where his mother, an Asia Minor refugee, grew up. The woman who had saved her from persecution after the end of the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-22 had brought her to Greece and raised her as her own child.

The old man, feeling the need to symbolically bring life back to space, hangs a photograph of his mother by a nail on one of the walls – it is the only picture he has of her with her parents.

The film preserves the memory of the struggle of the Asia Minor refugees in Greece, who had to rebuild their lives from scratch.

• Director: Vasilis Nikas
• Writer: Vasilis Nikas, Sofia Vevi Andritsopoulou
• Producer: Vasilis Nikas
• Key Cast: Nikos Athanasiadis, Giannis Moisidis, Stavroula Liana Tolika, Sofia Vevi Andritsopoulou, Melitini Kokossi, Nikolas Banos Benvenuti