S8.E5 ∙ The Flying Yankee

The history of the longest Artek shift from 1941 to 1945.

An unknown story, another war crime comes to light. In 1943, some Cretan shepherds, having no other way to feed their families, ignore German orders and enter the forbidden zone of Mount Psiloritis, set up to track down guerrilla groups. No one can imagine what is coming up.

Opening titles comparison of the digital restoration of Frank Capra's 'Lost Horizon'(1937) with narration by Robert Gitt.

An artist interviews eleven wounded veterans, largely post-9/11 war veterans and Marines, through the lens of her photography series, 'You. Are. Beautiful.' - a project which celebrates the human spirit and beauty in all people. Themes around darkness and light post-war, and within the human spirit, emerge in these candid, unscripted and conversational interviews. Ultimately, the themes that emerge will tie back to one of the project's main sources of inspiration: love. The audience will learn more about who these wounded veterans are simply as human beings. The veterans share messages that may help and inspire other injured veterans. Finally, anyone, military or non-military, may come from a new place of understanding of how to find light within the depths of darkness.

For many, the name Malvinas/Falklands evokes an absurd war between England and Argentina in 1982. For Julieta Vitullo, the protagonist of this film, this tragic history becomes deeply personal 25 years later when she suffers a loss associated with her search to uncover that past, unfolding into a life-affirming struggle for renewal and rebirth. This film tells the story of two trips, one made in 2006 and the other in 2010. In the space between one trip and the next, between past and present, between the public and the private, between what can and cannot be told, the movie reflects on the possibilities of conveying extreme life experiences, presenting landscapes and sounds that suggest subtle contours of that shape, 'The Exact Shape of the Islands.'