Thessaloniki
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«The boldest choices often emerged when we leaned into uncertainty»
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.
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Bodies and freedom
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.
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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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«Their stories and perspectives bring a different cinematic language and energy»
THESSALONIKI: Agora Director Angeliki Vergou discusses the 2023 film market for Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.
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On 80th anniversary, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival pays tribute to the city’s Holocaust victims
80 years after first train bound for Auschwitz departed from #Thessaloniki, the 25th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival organizes a tribute in honour of the city’s Jewish community exterminated during World War II. The films of the tribute «Adio querida: From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz – 80 years» will shed light on the unhealed universal #trauma and…
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To ask questions that are intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging
INTERVIEW«My background was from journalism, I had to learn film language», says Benjamin Ree on his The Painter and the Thief.
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Lucid dreaming: animated documentary at Thessaloniki
THESSALONIKI: Three films from the 2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival prove the multi-dimensional power of animation in non-fiction storytelling.
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The depths of memory
MEMORY: This intriguing trip down memory lane, to the Basque country of idyllic summers, is an exercise in transcendence.
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Ethnographic fictions: A portrait of Laura Huertas Millán
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.