Documenting Greece’s new emigrants

Nicolas Stamboulopoulos left Greece in October 2009, just as the country was about to be thrown into economic and political turmoil. He moved to Amsterdam, which seemed to offer the ideal multicultural environment for a documentary filmmaker seeking to hone his perception. At the time, he had no idea that Greece would come back to haunt him during the process. “In Holland I met a large number of Greeks who went there to study and then decided to stay,” he said in a recent interview with Kathimerini. “After 2010, things changed. Hordes of Greeks began to arrive, mainly young people looking to escape the crisis. I realized it was a historic moment. I was witnessing a new wave of Greek emigration that had to be documented,” he said.
(27.03.2013) Kathimerini English Edition (by Lina Giannarou)
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