"Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box." Elena is a dancer, a wife and mother, running away from a stifling reality; Antonis is a lonely man, looking for a place to bury his aunt’s ashes. The road brings the two characters together on a journey with no set destination.
Magnetic Fields is a veritable road movie, filmed with a MiniDV camcorder. It is the debut feature film of Yorgos Goussis, who is known primarily for his work in comics; he also wrote the screenplay, along with the two starring actors, Elena Topalidou and Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos (who share first names with their respective characters). A production of MiniFILMS, Naked Eye Productions and Heretic, the film was co-produced by the Greek Film Centre (GFC).
The film debuted at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (4-14 November, 2021), where the director enjoyed a huge success: he won the newly-founded Golden Alexander –Film Forward award for "narrating the adventure of an encounter through adventure filmmaking in free flowing and humanistic way"; the FIPRESCI Award for the Greek film section of the Festival; the award of the Greek Association of Film Critics (ΠΕΚΚ), for making a road movie where "the ride is an analogy for the course of life, with the hope for a miracle lying at the end"; the first prize of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) awards; and the award given by the Greek Film Centre to first-time directors, for his "tender road movie where the weaknesses of the heroes bring them face to face with their need for a new direction in life". The film’s location manager, Marinos Sklavounakis, was also presented with the Location Award by GFC’s Hellenic Film Commission.
