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Nikos Sarandos, who lives and operates in Heraklion, won the first prize at the “Flash Film Festival” in Berlin for "Super short Drone" for his film "The Face of Abandonment". In the video of the movie posted on YouTube that surpasses 90,000 views, Nikos Sarandos says about his content: "It could be a village in the warring Syria that one night was abandoned by its inhabitants trying to save themselves”. Just 80 km east of Heraklion and next to Ano Viannos, is the village of Kalami. A village built in a magnificent scenery, next to mountains, rivers and dense vegetation, which makes you wonder why people left it to desert. Open doors and windows, in deserted houses, with scattered objects on the floors, between tattered clothes, notebooks with half-finished notes, dishes and glasses in their cases ready for re-use. Above all, however, the scent of abandonment  and the feeling of melancholy in a village that a few decades ago was full o...