Thessaloniki Doc Fest Selection Explores Life Under Lockdown in Athens Nursing Home
variety.comChristopher Vourlias During the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began spreading throughout Greece, the director of an elderly care home in the suburbs of Athens and his staff decided to seal the home from the outside world, in order to prevent the possibility of infections amongst his vulnerable residents.When he heard the news, director Christos Barbas asked if he could join them. “I have always been fascinated by the idea of another confinement, the one that concerns the human mind that resides in an aging body—that is, what applies to most older people,” the director tells Variety.Barbas and DoP Michalis Geranios spent three weeks inside the home, filming the daily life of residents who had been cut off.
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