{"id":26292,"date":"2023-05-08T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=26292"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:25:24","slug":"feature-refugees-by-the-lake-migrant-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/feature-refugees-by-the-lake-migrant-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Refugees by the Lake, a Greek Migrant Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Migrants passing through the Greek-Northern Macedonian border unstitch an introverted community\u2019s suppressed strains in ascendant Greek cinema\u2019s much-awarded latest offering. <em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em>, written and directed by Asimina Proedrou, has just landed an unprecedented 17 nominations to the Greek Cinema Academy Awards.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Iason Athanasiadis<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stergios lives a pretty typical life in a village around the dazzling Do\u00efrani (or Dojran) Lake shared between Greece and Northern Macedonia. He argues with other farmers over financials in the local farmers\u2019 cooperative, drives his large truck to the lakeshore to fish, and frequents the out-of-town strip joint. His wife fears him and his daughter alternates between affection, meticulous concealment of her private life, and eventually defiance. This sets the scene for a tragic denouement among the reed beds of the unearthly lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to make a film about how society pressures everyday people and their social relations and forces them into crushing decisions and corruption,\u201d first-time director Asimina Proedrou explained during a recent conversation, \u201cbut without absolving them of responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proedrou sets her bleak tale \u2014 about how the lines of refugees winding their way from a crushed Middle East to a prosperous northern Europe impact an isolated community \u2014 in a misty wetland of the Balkan periphery. A gendered narration frames the encounter between the Greek community and the cultural and geographic outsiders, with the three main characters contributing partial and non-consecutive perspectives on the parallel processes of greed, compassion and rivalry that escalate to the film\u2019s climactic purge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-3e5c2f0f3f7aee71add320f17b53aa48 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"\u03a0\u0399\u03a3\u03a9 \u0391\u03a0\u039f \u03a4\u0399\u03a3 \u0398\u0397\u039c\u03a9\u039d\u0399\u0395\u03a3 (Behind the Haystacks) | Official Trailer\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6ISfwXAUjc?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Few films in Greece have been made about the 2015 refugee crisis, but <em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em> seems to have struck a chord, winning prizes at the Thessaloniki and Goa film festivals, enjoying a four-month run at Greek cinemas, and winning 17 nominations at the Greek Cinema Academy Awards, an all-time high. Its immersive plunge into the collision of different worlds is now set for European cinema distribution, online streaming and television broadcast through cofunders Arte and ZDF.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nReleasing the refugee genie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is 2015, and Berlin has decided to mix the practical with the ethical: replenish its ageing labor force with fresh bodies and minds, while making a global broadcast of German virtue at a time when millions of refugees fleeing the aftermath of the Arab Spring and US occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq search for refuge. But as months pass and the refugee flows show no sign of abating, the original images of deliriously smiling citizens crowding into railway stations to greet crowds arriving from war-scarred regions are replaced with cultural clashes in German towns and the electoral rise of the Far Right. Politicians apprehensively realize that they may have let an irrepressible genie out of the bottle, and strike a deal with Turkey to close down the flows, angering those EU member states located between Turkey and the German border which must deal with the repercussions of the deal going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Stergios lives in a village on Do\u00efrani Lake, a secluded habitat straddling the Greek-North Macedonia border that the closed borders transform into a sizzling hotspot. Driving back from a regular visit into North Macedonia, he hears on the car radio that Germany is shutting access to refugees. The decision sets a domino motion of closures from Austria through to the Balkans, snapping a new Fortress Europe into place. As North Macedonia shuts its own borders to migrants seeking to enter from Greece, fresh human waves pile up against the border, creating the once-notorious Idomeni camp but also a lucrative smuggling opportunity for Stergios.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26296\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26296 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-600x331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-768x424.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from <em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em>, written and directed by Asimina Proedrou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSecrets of the swamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather than a non-place, Do\u00efrani is mired in the secret and suppressed histories illuminating the unpalatable side of how nation-states are stitched together. Its residents were batted back and forth by battles of possession between empires, nation-states and now liquid modernity. Today\u2019s village residents are the descendants of the Greek-speaking Christian populations of the Pontic Black Sea, swapped between Greece and Turkey in 1923 and settled in formerly Slav-populated regions of northern Greece to Hellenize them. Conflict scattered their predecessors \u2014 whether Slavs and Bulgarians fleeing the Greek Army, or Greeks joining refugee lines to nearby Thessaloniki during the short-lived Kingdom of Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to also register the other side\u2019s music \u2014 the so-called <em>Yugoslavika <\/em>played with an accordion \u2013 in a small reference to [Serbian film director Emir] Kusturica, and also included in the celebration scene Makedonitika songs,\u201d said Proedrou in our interview for The Markaz Review. \u201cInitially I used the music just to signpost the region, but realizing the great commonalities between northern Macedonian, Yugoslav and Greek songs, I sought to highlight how all these cultural elements coexist on all sides of the borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signs of the disturbed past survive into today\u2019s village: British and Greek First World War-era cemeteries, a disused railway station, and a Customs building demarcating the border. All form gateways: soldiers and settlers arrived on the train; the graveyards embraced those who perished in the conflict; while the Customs building selling expensive western liquors and cigarettes holds the promise of a future prosperity postponed for decades by a semantic struggle between Athens and Skopje over their mutual claim to the name Macedonia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26293\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26293\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-600x309.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-still-from-Behind-the-Haystacks-written-and-directed-by-Asimina-Proedrou-photos-George-Lycoudis-768x396.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from <em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em>, written and directed by Asimina Proedrou.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the historical minefield into which the refugees wander. Blocked off in their ramshackle camp and absorbed by the struggle to move forward, they will witness far less of the intimacies of the land than the film\u2019s viewer, for whom director Proedrou conjures up a set of characters engaged in ancient traditions \u2014 from dancing through the village in animal hides during the ancient <em>Momogeri<\/em> ritual reintroduced in the 1920s by Pontic refugees, to an intoxicated, topless, all-male, feast-day sing-along. Throughout the film, the dictates of the overarching institutions that govern society \u2014 blood, borders and belief \u2014 invisibly drive the plot forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross-border dimensions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stergios\u2019 wife, the devout Maria, helps out at the local church. The women there are split on whether to help the mostly Muslim refugees. Maria, whom the priest has assigned fundraising for church repairs and to lay down his anti-Muslim line among the other women, is drawn to the parallel world of the cardboard and plastic waste refugee settlement that springs up locally, a wild place flourishing up against the border, for as long as hope remains that the gates will eventually reopen. While there, she scolds a woman she knows from the church for handing out food: helping the refugees is a sin, she says, echoing the priest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D6ISfwXAUjc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26295\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BTH_poster-int-web-717x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BTH_poster-int-web-717x1024-1.jpeg 717w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BTH_poster-int-web-717x1024-1-600x857.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/BTH_poster-int-web-717x1024-1-210x300.jpeg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile Stergios, who faces jail time due to tax trouble with the authorities, sees an income opportunity in the closing of the borders. Along with his brother-in-law, they start shipping boatloads of refugees to the lake\u2019s northern Macedonian shore. At \u20ac1,000 a passenger, business is good. Stergios can afford to contribute handsomely to church repairs and buy his daughter the new smartphone she craves. But one night, the boat overturns and lives are lost. From that moment on, time ticks down on the protagonists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a film about how a corrupt society reproduces itself,\u201d Proedrou explained, \u201cand about how ordinary people are trapped inside a corrupt system that reproduces conservative behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s monumental 2015 refugee opening has not figured in film much, perhaps due to its ambiguous and ongoing legacy. <em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em> succeeds in the harder task of harnessing the affair to an examination of what effect the newcomers had on the Balkan hinterlands\u2019 historically disregarded communities. Along the way, it reveals how slight the cultural distance is between locals and refugees, despite mutual prejudices. Although the migration angle was sparked by chance conversations that Proedrou had with refugees staying in the Do\u00efrani village hotel during a reccie [film industry jargon for \u201creconnaissance\u201d], it evolved into the film\u2019s narrative backbone.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s shakily moving handheld camera and tight, shallow-focused frames move the action along atmospherically but they are also the result of a threadbare budget. Proedrou and her team achieved their shots by employing techniques like multiple camera angles and frequent changes of their sparse extras\u2019 outfits. Matched with the brooding winter weather and humble village homes, the film elicits a claustrophobic atmosphere that conveys us along the jagged chunks of storyline we are called upon to arrange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was always bewitched by cross-border stories because they have an added symbolism and dimension,\u201d said Proedrou. \u201cThey depart from the local and acquire a more ecumenical character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Behind the Haystacks<\/em> presents a Balkan tale in the time of resurgent geopolitics; and the unintended interplays exerted by two refugee communities \u2014 one just-uprooted, the other settled in the traces of a banished third \u2014 on each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iason Athanasiadis reviews the film of a migrant story set in Greece that has just been nominated for 17 Greek Cinema Academy 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