The countdown for the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival(March 1-10, 2019) begins with the tribute“Why Look at Animals”, dedicated to the special relationship between humans and animals.
The tribute is inspired by the same titled essay by the iconic British art critic, author and painter John Berger (1926-2017) and presents a selection of poignant documentaries that explore the various aspects of the interaction between man and animal.
A police officer who has been denoted and found himself only handling admin work receives an anonymous phone call from a woman who has been kidnapped. Confined to his office chair, he is forced to use others as his eyes and ears, as the magnitude of the crime is slowly uncovered... A fixating thriller that breathes exciting new life into the Scandinavian tradition of this film genre, with its narrative and visual resourcefulness, as well as its chilling penetration of a character’s depths.
Following the latest collaboration between the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Distant Barking of Dogs by the Danish filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont that won the Golden Alexander award in the 20th TDF last March became automatically eligible...
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It is with great pleasure that the Thessaloniki Film Festival welcomes Jane Goodall, one of the most important scientists of our time, the woman whose work on the behavior of chimpanzees in 1960s Tanzania rocked the world of the global scientific community.
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