The festival is assigned by law to screen all local films produced during the year in the Panorama of Greek Cinema section. Their screening will entitle them to vie for the State Cinema Awards which will be handed out during a special gala the day following the Festival's international award ceremony.

Eighteen local fiction films plus six documentaries, backed by the Greek Film Center and private producers, will be screened this year. Encouraged by the positive response from international guests to the The Greek Film Department introduced last year, which operated as an informal Film Market for local pictures, the festival is further developing this initiative, introducing formal Market Screenings reserved for the international film business executives present in Thessaloniki. This effort will be backed by the large promotion campaign traditionally organized at the festival by the Greek Film Center and its Hellas Film promotion and distribution department.

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