When a Greek tombstone of unknown origins is discovered underneath the floorboards of an old village house in Turkey, an almost forgotten story from the country’s creation unravels emerges: the forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

A single buried tombstone becomes a portal between two nations in Kerem Soyyılmaz’s unassuming film, which turns private discovery into collective reckoning. Excavating what nationalism buried, Searching for Rodakis patiently asks what we owe the dead and the neighbors we were taught to forget.