The 38th International Thessaloniki Film Festival will kick off on November 21 and for ten days fill the movie screens of Thessaloniki with films from around the world.

The Festival again will offer the various programs of recent years: the International Section, comprised of both competition and out-of-competition selections; the cutting edge roster of the New Horizons program; groundbreaking works in the Balkan Survey (a program that serves as a meeting point for filmmakers throughout this region); views of the past, the present and the future in the Retrospective Program, and, of course, the National Section.

An exciting change for 1997 is the new location of the Festival offices and the additional venues for film screenings: the Festival finally will operate from what will soon become its permanent home in the Olympion Cinema Complex right on the waterfront in Aristotelous Square. The Olympion historically was a center for film in Thessaloniki. The entire building has undergone extensive renovation under the auspices of the "Thessaloniki-Cultural Capital of Europe 1997" organization.

All in all, a rich, diverse, and stimulating program of over 100 films.


Festival Staff