The documentary explores the lives of two chefs from the Kurdish region of Turkey who, each for different reasons, left their homeland to establish new lives in Athens. By interweaving their life stories, this film explores the meanings of movement, food, and freedom at the interstices of place and belonging.
Finiki Papadopoulou
Finiki Papadopoulou has worked as an oral history researcher, as a historical consultant for Soil Traces Washed Away by the Sea (Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival) and as a shoot assistant for Bonfire Films in London. She has studied History (BA) and Middle Eastern Studies (MA) and is interested in ethnographically exploring the ways in which people inhabit history’s complex legacies in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey.
Lidia Esther Muñoz Paniagua
Lidia Esther Muñoz Paniagua is an Anthropologist whose research focuses on labor, immigration, gender, and power. Lidia completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she earned a B.A. in Music and another in Anthropology (2004). She holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies and an M.A. in Social Anthropology. Currently, she is an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon.
Rowan Glass
Rowan Glass is an American anthropologist, journalist, and emerging filmmaker with a BA from the University of Oregon. His research runs the gamut from Indigenous cultural autonomy in Colombia to public health in Senegal and the legacies of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. In all his work, Rowan strives to tell impactful stories about interesting peoples and places through incisive research and creative endeavors.