Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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A deeply touching goodbye
BIOGRAPHY: Nick Broomfield’s doc about the artist Leonard Cohen and his muse and girlfriend Marianne Ihlen, is a touching story of an extraordinary relationship.
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Life vanishingly rare
CLIMATE: Enriched with animated segments depicting the legends and culture of the Inuit and Chukchi people, The Book of the Sea reveals a side of Russia rarely seen.
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Flying the battered nest of circumstance
POVERTY: Let down by society’s promises, a generation of young Scots carve out moments of tenderness amidst bursts of frustration and violence.
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A personal account of Aleppo’s destiny
SYRIA: A painful documentary infused with the occasional breath of poetry and beauty from Aleppo.
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The lost prize of freedom
SYRIA: A filmmaker begins documenting a celebration of freedom in Aleppo but ends up documenting the devastating consequences of that dream.
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From riches to rags: Living the life among the Sierra Leonean elite to the American supermarket
SIERRA LEONE: Solomon Juxton-Smith is working in a supermarket in New York, resembling perhaps any middle-class American. But before this life he had another. He lived in Sierra Leone and his father was the ruler of the country.
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A perverted portrait of an artist
The Artist & The Pervert is a somewhat atypical portrait of an artist that tells less about composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ microtonal music then it does about his BDSM-based relationship with his wife.
