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FOTIA / FIRE

Matthew Somerville
2016
UK
7 mins
Fotia is an experiential documentary observing the tradition of Rouketopolemos on the small island of Chios, Greece where two churches on opposing hillsides celebrate Easter by firing over 100,000 homemade rockets at the other. Young men dedicate all year to making and hiding rockets, for them this is their life. On Easter Sunday, both churches declare victory and agree to settle the dispute next year, the tradition continues…