http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898936/

Next Year in Lerin (2000)
Director: Jill Daniels
Writer: Jill Daniels
Genre: Documentary

Plot:
In 1948 during the Greek civil war, 28 thousand children, Greek and Macedonian, were taken from their villages by the communist-led Democratic Army and raised in orphanages in Eastern Europe. The Greeks never allowed the Macedonian children back. In this moving film, 50 years later the 'children' mark the anniversary of their journey. They dance and sing and yearn for their lost villages. The Greek civil war has faded into history, but the Macedonian 'children' remain its forgotten victims.

Next Year in Lerin, also filmed on videotape, also deals with the shadows of war. Although the film's structure, which intersperses informative footage with interviews, makes it somewhat two dimensional, it nonetheless presents the audience with a tragic and largely forgotten bit of war history. During the Greek Civil War that followed World War II, a group of ethnic-Macedonian and Greek children were taken away from their parents and sent to live in a Romanian orphanage. When the war ended, the Greek government allowed only the ethnic-Greek children to return. Unable to go back to their villages, the ethnic-Macedonian children were forced to take up residence in other countries. Meanwhile, their villages in Greece were gradually abandoned. Filmed in 1998, Next Year in Lerin documents the 50th reunion of the children expelled from Greece. In interviews with the director, these now gray-haired "children" describe the difficulties and homesickness they experienced in exile. Even now, with the Greek Civil War a distant memory, these ethnic-Macedonian Greeks only dream of returning home. As a tour bus bearing a number of the expatriates back to Greece reaches the Greek border in the final scene (some of the ex-pats had finally secured visas), I was suddenly reminded of Theo Angelopoulus' films Voyage to Cythera and Ulysses' Gaze.

http://www.tieff.sinica.edu.tw/ch/2001/ ... -text9.htm

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Much appreciated mk I just purchased my copy. Look forward to getting it in my possession soon.

na zdravje

let us know if everything went good with the purchase and how the movie was

You wouldn't happened to know of any other sites where I can purchase Macedonian's films?

not really, I just googled this site out for you

I have some experience with google you know

Hello

I was the one who made Next Year in Lerin and it is really interesting to see what people think of it. It was recently shown at the Macedonian film festival in Toronto. My aim, given it is the 60th anniversary of the children being taken out of Greece, is to show it in Greece and the very least on Macedonian national TV, which though they gave me archive for free, have so far not broadcast it.

If anyone would like more information or to get a DVD please visit this link on my website
http://www.jilldanielsfilms.com/films2.html# on my website http://www.jilldanielsfilms.com

where you can buy a copy.

Jill

Hello

I was the one who made Next Year in Lerin and it is really interesting to see what people think of it. It was recently shown at the Macedonian film festival in Toronto. My aim, given it is the 60th anniversary of the children being taken out of Greece, is to show it in Greece and the very least on Macedonian national TV, which though they gave me archive for free, have so far not broadcast it.

If anyone would like more information or to get a DVD please visit this link on my website
http://www.jilldanielsfilms.com/films2.html# on my website http://www.jilldanielsfilms.com

where you can buy a copy.

Jill