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Like all audiovisual industries across the planet, Greece has had difficulties since the beginning of the year due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Ministry of Culture has passed resolutions to help the sector, setting up, for example, an emergency fund of €15 million. The Greek Cinema Centre (GFC) also wanted to play its part by …
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At the beginning of March the organisers of the Thessalonika International Film Festival (TIFF) announced they were postponing the event, but would maintain certain activities online, such as Agora. In a bid to keep its cultural activity alive the TIFF commissioned eight Greek directors to make short films from their homes. The “Species of Spaces” …
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Although the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival was postponed (originally scheduled from March 5th to 15th), some of its activities, such as the development forum Agora, took place anyway. The Agora Doc Market took place entirely online and so various film projects have received financial support, among them several Mediterranean projects: The Italian film A …
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Scheduled from March 5th to 15th, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has been postponed until the end of May or early June 2020. In a press release, the organisers of the 22nd TDF explained the decision had been taken in the light of the WHO’s latest recommendations about the coronavirus. Their first concern is to …
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The two journalists Thomas Iacobi and Angélique Kourounis continue their investigation into the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, shooting a new documentary on the subject — Golden Dawn: a Public Affair. Their first documentary, Golden Dawn, a Personal Affair, tried to get inside the workings of the party which is the third political force in …
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A new film by Franco-Greek director Costa Gavras, Adults in the Room, began shooting in March and will continue until the end of May. The main locations are in Athens, Brussels, Riga, Frankfurt and London. His 19th feature film is set in the economic crisis which shook Greece, his country of origin, between 2009 and …
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A five-day programme for pitching projects, Docs in Thessaloniki, takes place from March 1st to 5th as part of the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. It helps the selected production teams become part of the European and international documentary market. There are three stages: development, rewriting and pitching to potential backers. 21 documentary projects from …
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