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Oscar-winning Greek-American director Louie Psihoyos is given a carte blanche in the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to select his favorite films. Psihoyios will attend this year’s edition to receive the festival’s top honorary award, the Golden Alexander, as well as to present the carte blanche films and a special screening of his documentary The Cove (2009, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature).
The 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival kicks off on Friday, March 1st, 2019 at the Olympion theatre with Nick Broomfield’s documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love.
From crucial political and environmental issues to female sexuality and antiquities trade, seven of the most powerful documentaries that will be screened in the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival capture and explore the multifaceted kaleidoscope of human reality.
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.
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 for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar® and additionally made it to the short list of 15 documentaries that were selected as contenders for the 91st Academy Awards® out of 166 films that were originally submitted in the category.
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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.
