Digger

"Grigorakis can firmly be considered a name to watch."

VARITEY
  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Georgis Grigorakis
  • Greece, France 2020
  • 101 minutes
  • Greek
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Nikitas is a taciturn farmer who lives by himself in a farmhouse in the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. His lonely life is disrupted when his son Johnny appears after a 20-year absence, demanding his share of the family’s land. An offer to buy the property for a huge sum pits the two men against each other, while exposing deeper rifts in a mountain community struggling for its survival.

Filmmaker Georgis Grigorakis sets his rain-drenched contemporary Western against a majestic backdrop and unfolds a timeless story of father and son against the Greek economic crisis and the threat of climate change.

Feature Debut


  • Director Georgis Grigorakis
  • Production Athina Rachel Tsangari, Maria Hatzakou, Chrysanthi Karfi Koi
  • Script Georgis Grigorakis
  • Cinematography Giorgos Karvelas
  • Editing Thodoris Armaos
  • Music Michalis Moschoutis
  • Festivals Berlin (CICAE Art Cinema Award), Sarajevo
  • Actors Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, Sofia Kokkali, Theo Alexander
  • Source The Match Factory, Cologne