Two elementary school students from 6th Experimental Intercultural Primary Elementary Eleftherios-KordeliouEnglish teacher Chrysa Nikolopoulou and Special Educator Antigoni Kountouriotis tell us about the award they received for the short film “Fragments of Memory”.

Dedicated to dementia from which 35 million people suffer worldwide, 10 million in Europe and 150,000 in Greece, and due to the constant increase in life expectancy, expert estimates raise the number of people who will be involved in 100 million by 2050. Eleftherios Kordeliou School, at the 15th International Student Competition of Short Films “Cinema … Did You Read?” Winning the 1st prize in the animation category between 319 films of all categories.

“Fragments of Memory” is a stop-motion short film, created by students in elementary school, who tells Henry’s story with tenderness and imagination, an elderly man living with dementia. A journey between the past and the present, a journey in reality and the fragile world of lost memory. His memories unfold through an old, dusty album, symbolic objects and images that come alive, only to start fading again. But when everything seems to be lost … A Henry’s loved one, his granddaughter, Lily, becomes the bridge that connects him again with what he loves. It is a film about the loss and the power of memory along with the eternal footprint of love.