The long goodbye
PROSTITUTE:The short documentary Rita is the story of an old-school prostitute in Athens at the crossroads of her career.
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Exposing the misery of the Mafia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Letizia Battaglia never introduced herself as a photographer of the Mafia. She was taking pictures of Palermo, she says, where the Mafia is simply part of everyday life and routines.
The art of displacement: mobiles on the migrant trail
MIGRANTS: The Fazili family shoots their perilous journey from Afghanistan through the Balkan migration route to an uncertain future on three mobile phones.
A well-wrought thriller about the death of a Swedish UN Secretary-General
In his classic Mads Brügger-film style, the Danish director seeks to find out who stood behind the plane crash that killed the UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.
The «pact of denial» in Greece
Life on remote Greek islands can be less than idyllic when cold weather sets in and the tourists are gone.
Colonial voyeurism revisited
COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.
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.
What was lost in the battle of Mosul
The hard times in Mosul are not over. The city that lived three years under Isis is now faced with a destructed infrastructure – on both a physical and social level.
Orestis Andreadakis – Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Orestis Andreadakisv is a film critic , festival organizer and artistic director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).
Balkan Doc Forum: A Twofold Advantage
Filmmakers from the Balkan countries have been overtaken by their foreign colleagues in documenting the Balkan reality.