2022 · migrants · drama · triptych
Behind the Haystacks
Directed by Asimina Proedrou1h 48m2022
A middle-aged fisherman living with his wife and daughter on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake, in exchange for a hefty fee. Until a tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three heroes to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses.
Our read: Behind the Haystacks (2022) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded migrants · drama · triptych entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme migrants / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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