The festival is required by law to screen all local films produced during the year in the Greek Films 2004 section. Their screening will entitle them to vie for the National Cinema Awards which will be handed out during a special gala on Monday, November 29. Twenty local fiction films plus four full length documentaries, backed by the Greek Film Center and private producers, will be screened this year. Encouraged by the past years' positive response from international guests the festival's Greek Film Department will operate for the fourth consecutive year, reserved for international film business executives and foreign press present in Thessaloniki.
This effort will also be backed by the promotional campaign traditionally organized at the festival by the Greek Film Center and its Hellas Film promotion and distribution department.
Among the Greek films offered to foreign guests will be the Pandelis Voulgaris directed, Martin Scorsese produced, Brides, enjoying, after its world premiere at theToronto Film Festival last month, a huge local box office success -300,000 admissions during the first two weeks of release- the Theo Angelopoulos' celebrated The Weeping Meadow, the Nikos Panayotopoulos Venice Film Festival 2004 premiered Delivery as well as the Panos Koutras Toronto premiered Real Life.

Greek Films 2004 Coordinator:
Thanos Anastopoulos