In a warm atmosphere, the curtain fell on the Thessaloniki International Film Festival with the awards ceremony that took place on Sunday November 11, 2018 at a packed Olympion theatre.
A novel, special opening ceremony inaugurated the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Thursday 1st November in a stacked Olympion theatre.
“I make films to discover myself. I don’t consider myself such a good director. I look like Sisyphus. I’m trying to reach the top and then start all over again. Yet, each film is an opportunity for...
“My films carry a very intense personal hue, they crystallize my own idea about modern times and past accomplishments. I try to depict experiences and thoughts that escape preset boundaries and...
The 15 films of the International Competition section of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival became the material of the event’s main exhibition titled "Caritas Romana: 15 Acts of...
"My idea was mainly to try and capture, somehow more lightly, an image of our times through a particular film genre. Then I tried to 'distort' the rules of that genre and introduce elements which...
Agora, the TIFF’s industry section, announced its awards on Friday, November 9, 2018 in Warehouse C, as part of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
“If you are used in being guided in films, being taken by the hand and told how to feel, then you may feel disoriented in my films. You may not understand the meaning of a scene and need to look...
"An early form of layout can be seen in the Renaissance, in the rough drawings of all grand painters -by the way, I’m sure that if Da Vinci was alive today, he would show interest in animation".
"I'm a film maniac, I watch three films a day. So when TIFF's artistic director Orestis Andreadakis and the vice president Achilleas Kyriakidis talked to me about Agora and how its very important...
“Joaquín Cociña and I both grew up during Pinochet’s dictatorship. It’s not that we experienced something very dramatic, we did have a relatively happy childhood. Still, the conditions in our...
