Golden Alexander to Louie Psihoyos
Special Screening: The Cove
@Olympion
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival awards the official guest of this year’s edition, with the Golden Alexander. Louis Psychoyos has selected ten influential ecological documentaries for a carte blanche program. In the context of the ceremony, there will be a screening of The Cove, the first feature documentary of Louie Psihoyos, which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. The Greek-American filmmaker and photographer will attend the first screenings of the Carte Blanche program, to present the films and discuss with the audience of Thessaloniki in the respective Q&A sessions.
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
USA 2009, Color 92΄
The 2010 Oscar-winning feature documentary by Greek-American photographer and filmmaker Louie Psihoyos has enjoyed worldwide success. The movie is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills in Japan, specifically in the cove near Taiji. A desperate warning addressed to the human race as to realize that destroying the planet’s animal and plant life equals self-destruction.
- PARALLEL EVENTS
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DISCUSSIONS
- DOCUMENTARY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A RELATION TO EXPLORE - WORKSHOP BY THE GREEK DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION
- HELLENIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF LSE: “FILM PRODUCTION IN GREECE: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS”
- LISTENING TO THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE A VOICE: A DISCUSSION FOR THE OMBUDSMAN
- PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PARTICIPATION (PAVILION OF GREECE) AT THE 60th INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION - LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
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SPECIAL SCREENINGS & SPECIAL HEARINGS
- HONORARY GOLDEN ALEXANDER TO PANAYOTIS EVANGELIDIS & UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE SCREENING OF THE FILM TILOS WEDDINGS
- PERIPHERAL SCREENINGS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- SPECIAL HEARING: HOOLIGAN EXPRESS
- SPECIAL SCREENING & DISCUSSION WITH DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU
- SPECIAL SCREENING - WORK IN PROGRESS: BULL’S HEART (working title) by Eva Stefani
- SPECIAL SCREENING COSMOTE TV: UNDERWONDER by Kostas Karydas
- SPECIAL SCREENING: MARY, MARIANNA, MARIA – THE UNSUNG GREEK YEARS OF CALLAS by Michalis Asthenidis & Vassilis Louras
- SPECIAL SCREENINGS: EXERGUE - ON DOCUMENTA 14
- VIDEO INSTALLATION
- INTERACTIVE ART INSTALLATION
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PRESENTATIONS
- AWARD CEREMONY: CEDEFOP VIDEO AWARD 2023 / EUROPEAN YEAR OF SKILLS: SHARE YOUR SKILLS
- BOOK PRESENTATION A LESBIAN LIFE by Maria Cyber & SCREENINGS
- OPEN DISCUSSION - BOOK PRESENTATION HALF A CENTURY OF ELECTIONS: DISCUSSING THE CONTESTS OF METAPOLITEFSI, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY SINCE THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY IN GREECE.
- PARTIES
- ONLINE SCREENINGS