Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival AGORA announces new prize and opens submissions
The Agora of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TiDF) has set a new partnership and a fresh award that promises to uplift documentary filmmakers. From March 7-17, 2024, the festival’s 26th edition will be enriched by the collaboration with the IEFTA Foundation, introducing a €10,000 Best Doc in Development Award. The new award will be…
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Living with floods and garbage
CLIMATE: Once more, the formidable Brahmaputra river is on the ascent. Amidst a vanishing mud island, Afrin, a 12-year-old orphan, readies herself to depart from the sole realm she's ever been acquainted with.
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Chronicling women of the YPJ
CONFLICT: Dream's Gate offers a bracing perspective on female fighters battling IS.
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The enduring darkness of Stalinism in Putin’s Russia
RUSSIA: If you can bear to witness the quintessential continuity of aspects of Stalinist evil in Putin's Russia, Jessica Gorter's meticulous study of the trials of human rights activist and historian Yuri Dmitriev is obligatory viewing.
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Growing up under the approaching storm clouds of war
UKRAINE: The lives of ordinary teenagers in Ukraine's Donbas region as they navigate adolescence, dreams, and the devastating impact of conflict on their futures.
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Coming of age in times of war
UKRAINE: An achingly tender film about growing up and a moving contemplation on life itself.
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Assange and the fight for free journalism
FREE SPEECH: Although Ithaka – A Fight to Free Julian Assange focuses on Julian Assange's family in their fight for his freedom, the film is an effective and needed reminder of the bigger issues at stake.
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Observational cinema
THESSALONIKI: What is an observational style really – an old fashion or giving films something they lost?
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Memories of a Retreating Glacier
EXISTENTIALISM: Life, death, nature, and presence amidst the primordial forces of the earth.