Destination:Journey - TDF-2021

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival sets globetrotting 2021 tribute programme

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The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has set the exciting tribute, titled «Destination: Journey», which aims to answer the questions: Why do we travel? What are we looking for in our journeys? The films of the tribute will be screened 4 – 14 March, 2021 on the Festival’s online platform for viewers in Greece.

Through 19 documentaries and two fiction films, the tribute explores the contemporary notion of travelling and our relationship with it now that the need for exploration more urgent than ever. The tribute will be accompanied by a bilingual special edition, in which artists and academics approach different aspects of the journey.

The Destination: Journey films

  • Big North (dir. Dario Acocella) – Italy, 2020
  • The Train Stop (dir. Sergei Loznitsa) – Russia, 2000
  • If I Had Four Camels (dir. Chris Marker) – France, 1967
  • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (dir. Jonas Mekas) – Lithuania/USA, 1972
  • Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (dir. Werner Herzog) – United Kingdom, 2019
  • The Long Holiday (dir. Johan Van Der Keuken) – Netherlands, 2000
  • Gambling, Gods and LSD (dir. Peter Mettler) – Canada/Switzerland, 2002
  • Down There (dir. Chantal Akerman) Belgium/France, 2006
  • Of Time and the City (dir. Terence Davies) – United Kingdom, 2008
  • Expedition to the End of the World (dir. Daniel Dencik, Denmark) – Sweden, 2013
  • Ghostland (dir. Simon Stadler, Catenia Lermer) – Germany
  • Central Airport THF (dir. Karim Ainouz) – Germany/France/Brazil, 2018
  • Midnight Traveler (dir, Hassan Fazili) – USA/ Qatar/Canada/United Kingdom, 2019
  • Which Way Home (dir. Rebecca Cammisa) – USA, 2009
  • First Contact (dir. Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson) – Australia/Canada/USA, 1983
  • Night Mail (dir. Harry Watt, Basil Charles Wright) – United Kingdom, 1936
  • Travels in the Congo (dir. Marc Allégret) – France, 1927
  • Atman (dir. Pirjo Honkasalo) – Finland, 1996
  • Route One (dir. Robert Kramer) – United Kingdom/France, 1990
  • Bus Stop (dir. Aktan Arym Kubat (Abdykalikov), Ernest Abdyshaparov) – Kyrgystzstan, 2000
  • Leningrad Cowboys Go America (dir. Aki Kaurismaki) – Finland/Sweden, 1989

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