THESSALONIKI: Yorgos Krassakopoulos reflects on the radical themes shaping this year’s selection, the growing intersections between truth and experimentation in documentary, and the ethical dilemmas of representing reality in an increasingly complex world.
THESSALONIKI: Elina Psykou’s Stray Bodies sheds thought-provoking light on bodily autonomy through abortion, in-vitro fertilization and euthanasia, while Tzeli Hadjidimitriou tells the story of the lesbian community on the island of Lesvos in Lesvia.
THESSALONIKI: What is an observational style really – an old fashion or giving films something they lost?
THESSALONIKI: Agora Director Angeliki Vergou discusses the 2023 film market for Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
80 years after first train bound for Auschwitz departed from #Thessaloniki, the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival organizes a tribute
INTERVIEW«My background was from journalism, I had to learn film language», says Benjamin Ree on his The Painter and the Thief.
THESSALONIKI: Three films from the 2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival prove the multi-dimensional power of animation in non-fiction storytelling.
MEMORY: This intriguing trip down memory lane, to the Basque country of idyllic summers, is an exercise in transcendence.
THESSALONIKI: Challenging the authoritative colonial views about exoticism, ethnography, and anthropology, filmmaker and artist Laura Huertas Millán is transforming filmmaking itself as their traditionally expressive form.
World War II: A harrowing depiction of the Romanian Holocaust told through small town photography and the words of a local, Jewish doctor.
POLICING: In New York, people are being terrorised in their own streets, homes, and workplaces by the people paid to protect them. These realities should be impossible, but in these neighbourhoods in the US they are everyday occurrences.
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.