The Island. The enigma of Keros

Sinopsis

For generations, a handful of shepherds lived on Keros, a small island in the Cyclades, never imagining what had taken place there four thousand years earlier. People from other islands came by sea to deposit marble figurines, which they broke following a ritual whose meaning still eludes us. In the early twentieth century, those Cycladic figures won the admiration of Brancusi and Picasso. Decades later, the interest they aroused fuelled the looting of Keros. Many of the figurines vanished into the illicit market.
Today Keros is uninhabited, and only authorised archaeological expeditions may land there. The film revisits the history of the sanctuary, but also the lives of those who once inhabited the island: their houses, their flocks, their silences. And the strange pull that Keros still exerts on us.