Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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Suspended in middair
UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.
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«With a blend of persistence, love, realism and boldness, Greek documentaries always find a unique way to tell their stories»
THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: Ahead of the 24th edition, Modern Times Review spoke with the Director of the Greek Programme, Eleni Androutopoulou on this year's homegrown productions, the place of Greek documentary within its wider landscape, and more.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival unveils full 2022 programme
The 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will be held from Thursday 10 to Sunday 20 March where 233 full-length and short film documentaries will be screened. The entire festival kicks off with How to Survive a Pandemic (dir. David France), celebrating its world premiere. The Festival then close with the film Blind Ambition (dir. Warwick Ross,…
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The Greek documentaries of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Greek documentaries take centre stage at the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which will be held from 10 to 20 March 2022, both in physical spaces and online. 77 full-length and short docs are screened as part of the three competition sections – International Competition, Newcomers and >>Film Forward – the Open Horizons section of the…
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 24th edition competition films
The three competition sections of the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival—International Competition, Newcomers Competition and >>Film Forward Competition—cast a critical and acute glance at the most heated issues of our times. The International Competition includes Ramin Bahrani’s 2nd Chance, which unfolds the spectacular and ambivalent story of the bulletproof vest’s inventor. In A House Made of…
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A war frozen in time
UKRAINE: French war journalist Loup Bureau directs an immersive cinematic journey through the last conflict on European soil.
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival announces 2022 them as «Post Reality»
The 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 10-20 March 2022, explores the post-reality we are currently experiencing, through a selection of ten films. Each film boldly outlines the heroes, anti-heroes, hidden secrets, and prismatic truths that reflect the threshold we are crossing as a world society. The ways through which cinema carves landscapes and places in the…
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Existence as activism
IDENTITY: Intertwined with days of protests, the final days of Chile's radical Cabaret Travesía Travesti show how important it is that the trans community stands up to tell its own stories.
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A new century of war
CINEMA: Thought lost forever, Dziga Vertov's 1921 archive of the Russian Civil War finally debuts to the public 100 years later.