The audience of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival had the opportunity to attend a fascinating masterclass delivered by Frederick Elmes, renowned DoP and longtime collaborator of great filmmakers, on Wednesday, November 5th, at the Pavlos Zannas theater. The masterclass, titled “The Collaborative Art,” was moderated by DoP Simos Sarketzis.
Within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the special screening of the film Electra7, a collaboration between the Athens Epidaurus Festival and the Hellenic Film...
The beloved screening series Fundamentals of Cinema, devoted this year to modern masterpieces destined to become future classics kicked off on Wednesday, November 5th at the John Cassavetes theatre...
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Athens Epidaurus Festival, two historic Greek cultural institutions, inaugurated the beginning of a creative dialogue with the signing of a...
Sotiris Kraniotis and Kris Radanov, actors, stunt performers, and stunt coordinators from the STUNT-PROJECT team, gave an exciting and innovative masterclass, titled “Movie Stunts - Introduction to...
Isabelle Huppert's award winning ceremony took place on Tuesday, November 4th, at the screening of Paul Verhoeven's film Elle, at the packed Olympion theatre. The multi-awarded actress, a guest of...
Amidst a festive and heartfelt ambiance, the Agora of the 66th Thessaloniki Film Festival bestowed its awards at a special event held on Wednesday, November 5th, at Warehouse C.
The screening of the eight projects participating in this year’s Agora Works in Progress of the 66th TIFF took place on Tuesday, November 4th, at the Frida Liappa theatre, offering a fascinating...
The audience of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival had the opportunity to attend a fascinating masterclass delivered by the remarkable star of French and world cinema, Isabelle...
The special screening of Sotiris Tsafoulias’ television series Rififi took place on Monday, November 3rd at the packed Frida Liappa theater, with the Chief of Corporate Communications,...
An icon of French and world cinema, Isabelle Huppert, the Festival’s guest of honor, was welcomed by the audience of the 66th TIFF on Monday, November 3rd, in the packed Olympion theatre, where she...
In a heartfelt event that took place on Monday, November 3rd, at the Pavlos Zannas theater, the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in collaboration with Finos Film, awarded 37 iconic...
The presentation of the projects participating in this year’s Crossroads Co-production Forum of the 66th TIFF’s Agora took place on Monday, November 3rd, at the Tonia Marketaki Theatre, in the...
Within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the dazzling star Isabelle Huppert, the guest of honor at this year's Festival, gave a press conference on Monday, November 3rd, at...
In a heartfelt event, the 66th TIFF honored the film critic Ninos Phenek Mikelides for his lifetime contribution to cinema on Sunday, November 2nd, at the Pavlos Zannas theatre. At the same time,...
The 66th TIFF’s Agora Series Masterclass, titled “From Page to Screen, with Saverio Costanzo, on Making My Brilliant Friend” was successfully held on Sunday, November 2nd, in the Pavlos Zannas...
On Saturday, November 1st, at the Pavlos Zannas theater, the audience of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival had the opportunity to attend a fascinating masterclass, titled “Casting in...
The International Casting Directors Association (ICDA) presented the Semiramis Award for Best Casting on Saturday, November 1st, at the Tonia Marketaki Theatre. This honorary award recognizes the...
Within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki IFF, renowned costume designer Catherine George, a longtime collaborator of great filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, and Lynne Ramsay,...
The opening of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s main exhibition, titled “Plot Twist (the science fiction change)”, the opening festivities of the 9th Thessaloniki Biennale of...
Amidst a warm atmosphere, and with the leading actress of Jim Jarmusch’s film, Father Mother Sister Brother, in attendance — the wonderful Indya Moore — the opening ceremony of the 66th Thessaloniki...
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The Thessaloniki Film Festival bids farewell to Dimitri Eipides
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and its people bid farewell to Dimitri Eipides, the creator and founder of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and for years director of the institution. Dimitri Eipides, who created the section New Horizons, opening a window to a great cinema, which was unknown to Europe until then, passed away on Wednesday.
Dimitri Eipides taught us how to watch documentaries, how to discover filmmakers. Cinema was his life. In myth he found the anthropocentric stories that originate from reality. He served this kind of cinema throughout the world, in Thessaloniki, Montreal, Toronto and Reykjavik.
In 1971 he founded the Festival international du nouveau cinéma de Montréal and was its director for 14 years. From 1988 until recently he was a senior member of the Toronto International Film Festival, as an International Programmer. From 2005 to 2010, he was head programmer of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. In 1993, the Iranian Culture Minister gave him an honorary award recognizing his contribution to the promotion of Iranian cinema internationally. He was the beloved uncle Dimitri of the Iranian filmmakers.
In 1999, he founded our beloved Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, his child, as he called it. He convinced viewers that documentary is a love affair that surpasses its own art and becomes part of our life.
We will always remember him in front of a screen, watching a film, explaining passionately why it is ideal for a festival, ideal for our soul.
