Sappho's granddaughters_trailer

"Sappho's granddaughters" is part of a series of films under the title "Silent Path". They are shot in Lesvos, Greece, during the financial and migrant crisis. The aim of the series is to give a voice to everyday people who live their lives quietly, but know how to share, laugh, create, love, endure and keep on going with dignity, preserving a way of living in harmony with their
“Grannies” presents four older women from Lesvos that I accidentally came across and who reminisce moments of their lives. Each one of them on her own way. Angeliki throws away the photos of those who have passed away, Myrsini sings a capella an "Amanes" song in the living room of her country house, a woman in the park caresses her cat, a substitute for her dead husband, and Photo proudly claims that she never cared about marriage, because she wanted to be free.