STRAY BODIES – documentary co-production between Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria (in production)

Directed by Elina Psykou

Synopsis:

Every year thousands of European citizens travel from one country to another evading the restrictive laws and ethics of their countries in order to access basic human rights. Stray Bodies follows simultaneously a young student who travels from Malta to Italy to have an abortion, a single 40 years old woman from Italy that reaches a well known fertilization clinic in Greece, an old man who travels from Greece to Bulgaria to find out how to have access to cremation, and a couple travelling from Bulgaria to Switzerland to meet Dignitas, an association that assists them with accompanied suicide. Like Stray Bodies, they travel by boat, car, airplane and train, dizzily crossing borders, highways, tolls, airports, harbors and train stations, on a harrowing yet surreal journey, all searching for answers to existential questions about life and death. As the characters of this road movie cross their countries’ borders, they come together in a cinematic trip through Europe about issues of vital importance: what rights do we have on ourselves and other people’s bodies?