In less than a year, more than one million refugees, crossed the Greek territory on their way to the promised land. 60.000 of them got stranded in a broken land, with a broken economy and very little to offer. With little hope of winning a lottery-pick in the all but defunct E.U. relocation scheme, most of them have come to terms with the prospect of staying in Greece for quite some time. Thessaloniki (TV100), decided to commission a series of four short (15’- 20’) documentaries on four individual ‘portraits’ of refugees residing in camps in the surroundings of Thessaloniki. In doing so, the producers tried to involve the refugees in the production process, handing them the widest possible ownership of the storytelling. In the third episode of ‘My name is not Refugee’, Mohammed Obada, a former driver from the Aleppo region, holds the camera while offering a guided tour in his ‘new home’ and recalls how his two year old son, along with his eldest brother got separated from the rest of the family for nearly ten days in opposite sides of the Turkish-Syrian border.
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