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Kε•ha•'jas - Man of the Land
Nominated for
Best First-Time Filmmaker
Directed by
Giorgos Komakis
62' • Greece • 2021
Modern Greek
"Kε•ha•'jas - Man of the Land" is an ethnographic documentary filmed in Lemnos, the most lowland of the Aegean islands. Lemnos, which according to one version owes its name to the Homeric Leion, which identifies a field with wheat or from the Leis + "Apple", which means sheep, is characterized by intense livestock and agricultural activity, since ancient times. The Lemnian farmer, Kε•ha•'jas - during the oral tradition of the place that gave birth to him - was a momentous and turbulent concept, mostly misunderstood.
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