Sfendyli: When the water uproots you
GREEEC, 2023, 40’
Director-Producer: Michail Bastakis
The village of Sfendyli had to be submerged in order to build the dam of the Aposelemis river. Although the construction of this dam would serve approximately 40% of the inhabitants of Crete, it would also uproot the few inhabitants of Sfendyli from their village. How did the residents deal with that situation?
The documentary ‘Sfendyli: When the water uproots you’ is oriented towards the category of social documentaries. It discusses how the local community, consisting of the former residents of the village, reacted and mobilised –before and during the construction of the dam– claiming whatever they could as compensation in order to replace their lost homes and their lost ‘neighbourhood’.
