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Greece / The Thessaloniki Festival launches an initiative for a green cinema

Evia Film Project

The Thessaloniki Film Festival has launched a new event, the Evia Film Project, following an announcement by the Minister of Culture and Sports to reconstruct and restore the island of Euboea. During the summer of 2021 Greece suffered many dramatic fires, in particular on Euboea, the country’s second largest island, where more than 50,000 hectares …

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Greece / The City and the City retraces the massacre of the Jewish community in Thessalonica

Affiche du film The City and the city

The City and the City, directed by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas, was shown in the Encounters section of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival. The directors return to the genocide of the Jewish community in Thessalonica, Greece. Nicknamed “the mother of Israel”, for several centuries Thessalonica was the home of a Sephardic Jewish diaspora. Until …

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GREECE FRANCE / “Petite Nature” wins the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Softie

“Petite Nature” by French director Samuel Theis won the Golden Alexander, the most prestigious award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The film’s lead actor, Aliona Reinert, won Best Actor Award. The young actor plays Johnny, an intelligent, sensitive ten-year-old whose difficult family life in a council estate in eastern France is turned upside down …

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GREECE / The 2021 Thessaloniki International Film Festival is once more face-to-face

62e TIFF

The 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held from November 4th to 14th 2021, both face-to-face and online at online.filmfestival.gr. The only international and competitive Greek festival, TIFF selects mainly first and second feature films, focusing on auteur cinema. This year 197 films will be shown in Thessaloniki’s mythical screening venues: the Olympion, …

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GREECE / “Unfortunately it was paradise” returns from May 30th to June 30th in Athens

Unfortunately it was paradise

“Unfortunately it was paradise” returns to Athens with a rich programme of Greek, Middle Eastern and North African films. The not-for-profit organization Locus Athens and the AIN Association have jointly organized open air and indoor screenings and conferences in Athens’ Tavros district. Launched in September 2020, the project was supposed to be a monthly programme …

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GREECE / The 2021 Aegean Film Festival competition “Rescript The Future” open until June 20th

Rescript The Future

“ReScript the Future” is a chance for young people to submit ideas for a 15-minute documentary about environmental issues. The two winners, one aged 13-18 and the other 19-24, will receive a €25,000 budget to turn their script into a film. The two films will then be shown at the 2022 Aegean Film Festival and …

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GREECE / The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival launches a competition for podcasts

Compétition Podcasts TFF

The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is calling for applications for its new podcast competition. Following the success of its workshops and the enthusiastic response from the public, the festival’s special podcast competition is now officially open. Fiction podcasts, documentary podcasts, and either fiction or documentary podcasts which incorporate interviews are all eligible; those in Greek will …

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