Tripoli Cancelled

2017·Greece·88 min.
Tripoli Cancelled
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Inspired by the director's father's experience of being trapped in Greece's Ellinikon Airport without a passport for nine days in 1977, the film follows a week in the life of a man who has been living in an airport for a decade, keeping himself sane through a daily routine of letters to his wife, fantasies of flying an aging jumbo jet, and reading a precious copy of the children's book 'Watership Down' - filmed in the same Ellinikon airport, abandoned since 2001 and recently a site for Syrian refugees.

ScreenwriterNaeem Mohaiemen
CinematographyPetros Nousias
Original titleTripoli Cancelled