2 MILES FROM HOME – GIFFT SPRING SHOWCASE

Sat March 14, 2026 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Brotherhood Pontion Toronto “Panagia Soumela”
397 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 1P1, Canada

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Brotherhood of Pontion and Panpontian Federation present the film 2 Miles From Home, along with the short film Agapi.

2 Milles From Home

A powerful creative documentary produced by JS Film Productions, Julia Despina Speropoulos focusing on the period from 1914 to 1923, culminating with the arrival of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at Samsun on May 19, 1919, during the genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea (Pontic Greeks), in which more than 353,000 Pontic Greeks were killed. Through testimonies from survivors’ descendants, historians, and genocide activists—combined with new and archival footage, animation, sketches, photographs, and historical newspapers—the film confronts denial and invites audiences to uncover historical truth.

Agapi

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Young Turks rose to power in 1908, aiming to create a Turkey inhabited only by Sunni Muslim Turks. Their successor, Mustafa Kemal, saw the Pontian Greeks as a threat and sought to exterminate them. One method was the “white death march,” where, after 1916, Greek civilians were forced to march inland through deep snow without food or water. In 1921, Agapi and her family were among those forced from their home in Kotyora (Ordu, Turkey) on a 40-day march. Will they survive?