Islands on the Edge – Saria
GREECE , 2022, 27’
Director: Yorgos Savoglou, Dionysia Kopana – Producer: ERT3
Saria is an islet north of Karpathos, scattered with ancient ruins and remnants of old settlements. Nowadays only wild goats and rare birds of prey live there. But some people still visit. Every year, on July 27, pilgrims revive the festival of Agios Panteleimon. Minas and Giannis come to open their homes in the now abandoned settlement of Argos, where they spent their childhood on Saria.
Giannis and Kostas are carpenters; they are brothers in a large family from Olympos, Karpathos; they keep their beehives on the islet. They go back and forth by boat from Diafani, Olympos’ little port. All these people together with the summer tourists meet up on this wild and charming islet.
