Festival

On our YouTube channel we share short films by the directors of the program “Meet the Future”.

We present, for free, short films by Greek directors that participated in the program “Meet the Future” of the 60th TIFF, that took place on November 2019. The initiative was a collaboration between TIFF and the Onassis Foundation.

The directors’ short films have been selected in the past five years to participate in the programs of the 13 most notable Film Festivals worldwide (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastián, London, Rotterdam, New York, Tribeca, Toronto, Sundance, Busan) or they have been nominated for the Academy Awards. The directors have not yet completed their first feature film.

During the next days, on our YouTube channel we will all watch for free the short films by the directors. We want to thank all of them for answering the call to bring their work to the public, during the difficult days of the quarantine. A selection from each director’s filmography will be available on youtube.com/user/filmfestivalgr for three days.

The directors who participated in the Meet the Future program are:

• Artemis Anastasiadou
• Myrsini Aristidou
• Sofia Georgovassili
• Εmma Doxiadi
• Neritan Zinxhiria
• Vasilis Kekatos
• Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
• Konstantina Kotzamani
• Stella Kyriakopoulos
• Nikos Kiritsis
• Jacqueline Lentzou
• Vangelis Liberopoulos
• Christos Massalas
• Loukianos Moshonas
• Thanasis Neofotistos

In our YouTube channel, you can find memorable masterclasses, conversations and press conferences from previous editions of the Festival.

TDF20 SARA DRIVER MASTERCLASS

TIFF59 GREEK QUEER CINEMA TALK

TDF21 LOUIE PSIHOYOS PRESS CONFERENCE

TIFF60 JOHN WATERS MASTERCLASS

TIFF60 JOHN MAVROUDIS MASTERCLASS

We invite the audience to visit the website www.myfestival.gr with the rich archive of the Festival (one can access it also through the Festival website www.filmfestival.gr in the section ARCHIVE). There you will find rare editions, magazines, books -many of them out of print-, but all available online. There, one can discover amazing film stories, moments and people, as well as the rare collection HELLAFI, which was declared a monument by the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage. HELLAFI includes large scale movie posters, pencil sketches, watercolor artwork, lithographs, Indian ink etc.

Here is a small taste from myfestival.gr:

“Dear Elia,

Thanks for making it possible to see Voulgaris’ film “Quiet days of August”. It’s an elegant, beautifully made film. The camera moves constantly -sensually. You find yourself getting involved with the characters … the longing, the melancholy… even a sense of fear and dread… ultimately, a very surprising and moving ending…

Martin Scorsese”

Scorsese’s letter to Elia Kazan in the Festival’s edition on Pantelis Voulgaris. You can find the original letter here: http://www.myfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=19&id=49536

TIFF keeps us company in the time of the coronavirus.

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival is using the possibilities that the Internet has to offer, in order to provide an outlet to the audience that loves cinema, in the unprecedented situation we are all experiencing.

Through our online channels -our website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube channel- we have created a platform for informing and entertaining the audience, with the aim to share moments and new material by beloved directors.

Discover subversive filmmakers and the best films from all over the world in the three competition sections of TIFF: International Competition (a program with films from across the Globe), Meet the Neighbors Competition (with first or second features from Greece's extended "neighborhood") and >>Film Forward Competition section (with films that go beyond the conventions of film genres). Moreover, in the International Program we find the sections: Open Horizons and the Open Horizons - Another Take subsection, Balkan Survey, Special Screenings, Out of Competition and ’Round Midnight. TIFF, also, presents the podcast section, which includes in competition and out of competition podcasts.

TIFF, also, presents the best films from the annual Greek production, tributes and cinematic surprises and gives the opportunity to film professionals to connect at the dynamic TIFF's Agora, the Industry section of the Festival.

The Agora Docs in Progress segment is the newest addition to the Thessaloniki Doc Market. It gives the opportunity to directors and producers from Central Europe and the Balkan and Mediterranean regions to present their documentary films to buyers, co-producers, festival representatives and sales agents at the stage just before completion.
The participating projects are the following:

Four Seasons
Direction Katerina Patroni
Production Eleni Chandrinou, Maria Kontogianni – Steficon
Greece

Libres!
Direction: Arno Bitschy
Production Clara Vuillermoz – Les films du Balibari
Co-producer Liisa Karpo, Marianne Makëla – Napa Films
France, Finland

Never Whistle Alone
Σκηνοθεσία | Direction Marco Ferrari Παραγωγή | Production
Patricia Robledo – Candy Glass Συμπαραγωγή | Co-producer
Francesco Crespi – Basement, Ιταλία | Italy

Our Choices
Direction Salah Al Ashkar
Production Etienne de Ricaud – Caractères Productions Ariel Cypel - L’atelier des artistes en exile
Syria, France

Overtures
Direction Louis Henderson
Production Olivier Marboeuf – Spectre Productions,
France

Queen of the Deuce
Direction Valerie Kontakos
Production Despina Pavlaki, Valerie Kontakos – Exile Films,
Greece

A Rifle and a Bag
Direction Cristina Hanes & Arya Rothe
Production Isabella Rinaldi–NoCut Film Collective
Co-producer Andra Popescu Conset Films, 
India, Romania

School 54 (w.t.)
Direction Dimitra Kouzi
Production Dimitra Kouzi – Kouzi Productions, Greece

Tobias
Direction Alexa Bakony
Production Gábor Osváth & Ildikó Szu´´cs– Filmfabriq
Hungary

Y1 Silence of the Deep
Direction Philippos Vardakas
Production Stelios Efstathopoulos – Team Faos TV Productions
Co-producer Faos TV Productions GmbH,
Greece, Germany

Open Pitching Sessions: Pavlos Zannas Theater (Olympion Complex), Monday 5 March 9:30–14.00 & Tuesday 6 March 9.30-13.00
Docs in Thessaloniki 2019 invites all festival participants to take part in the pitching session, where 21 new international documentary projects will be pitched to a panel of leading financiers. See the latest developments in the documentary sector, learn about changes in the market and listen to 21 fresh projects ready for co-production.

Climate Exodus
Director-Producer David Baute, Tinglado Film, Spain

Dear Future
Director-Producer Christiana Cheiranagnostaki, Greece

Democracy at Risk
Director Sylvain Pak, Producer Jennifer Deschamps, KM, France

Do Not Come Home
Director Milos Ljubomirović, Producer Ivica Vidanović, Cinnamon Films, Serbia

Engel
Director Peter Woditsch, Producer Sophie Schoukens, Sophimages, Germany

Epic of A Stone
Director Sean Wang, Producer Jia Zhao, Muyi Film, Black Fin, The Netherlands, China

The Exit of a Train
Director Radu Jude, Producer Ada Solomon, Micro Film Romania, Romania

Globus
Director Clara Kleininger, Producer Magdalena Borowiec, Tatiana Matysiak, SQUARE film studio, DI Factory and Triba Film, Poland, Romania

Gold Miners
Director Inka Achté, Producer Liisa Karpo, Napafilms, Finland

The Happiest Chief
Director Avra Georgiou, Producer Photini Economopoulou, Oh My Dog Productions, Greece

Inhabitants
Director Mery Aghakhanyan, Producer Armine Anda, Mery Aghakhanyan Renaissance Films, Armenia, France, Germany

Intimate Outsiders
Director Roser Corella, Producer Roser Corella, Ana Catalá, Moving Mountains Films, Germany

Magaluf Ghost Town
Director Miguel Ángel Blanca, Raúl Cuevas, Producer Bernat Manzano, Boogaloo Films, Spain

Nenets: People at Risk
Sergio Ghizzardi, Producer Valérie Montmartin, Little Big Story, France

Phoenix
Director-Producer Daire Collins, Ireland, UK, Romania, Spain, Germany

The Raaby Mystery
Director Stian Indrevoll, Producer Thorvald Nilsen, Screen Story, Norway

The Republic
Director Mustafa Ünlü, Producer Murat Baykara, Kutup Ayisi Documentary Productions, Turkey

Safe Passage
Directors Daniel Druhora, Charly W. Feldman, Producer Anna von Dziembowska, Victoria Films, UK, Russia

Scrap
Director-Producer Stacey Tenenbaum H2L Productions, Canada

The Settlement
Director Alex Sardà Executive Producer Carlota Coloma, Head of Production Adrià Lahuerta, 15-L. FILMS, Spain

Trazos
Director Maria Isabel Ospina, Iñès Compan, Producer Vincent Gazaigne Talweg, Medio de Contencion producciones, France, Colombia

Please check the EDN website for further information. Docs in Thessaloniki 2019 is organized by EDN and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival with the support of the EU Creative Europe Programme. EDN is a member-based organisation for professionals working with documentary film and television. EDN supports, stimulates, and creates networks within the documentary sector.

www.edn.network

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