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 International Film Festival took place on Thursday, October 30th, in the packed Olympion theater. The event was introduced by the Deputy Minister of Culture, responsible for Contemporary Culture, Iason Fotilas, the Deputy Minister of Interior, responsible for Macedonia and Thrace of Greece, Konstantinos Gkioulekas, the Deputy Governor of the Metropolitan Region of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos...
One of the most acclaimed and radiant names of contemporary classical music, Chinese-American Tan Dun, will attend the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The renowned composer and...
The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival will be held from Thursday October 30th to Sunday November 9th, 2025, both in physical spaces and online. A total of 278 full-length and short films will...
The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival is pleased to announce its 2025 collaboration with the International Casting Directors Association (ICDA), bringing to the forefront the distinct...
The pioneering competition section Immersive: All around Cinema embraces films that make use of the most up-to-date technologies to unveil different aspects of an extended reality, paving new ways...
The new film of the acclaimed and beloved American film director Jim Jarmusch, Father Mother Sister Brother, Golden Lion winner at the recent Venice International Film Festival, will signal the...
The 66th TIFF hosts for another year its Podcast Section, featuring a total of 40 Greek-speaking and English-speaking podcasts, setting a record number in the section’s history. In particular, 12...
A series of renowned names of today’s cinema, with the stunning Festival’s guest of honor Isabelle Huppert as the lineup’s spearhead, will deliver fascinating masterclasses, open to the public,...
The spotlight hosted by the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival re-introduces us to one of the most distinguished and versatile personalities of 20th century French culture. Film director,...
The 66th TIFF will host a tribute to one of Europe’s boldest and most distinctive directorial duos, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, showcasing their pluralistic and unconventional body of work. The...
Discovering new talents and voices that renew our perspective remains at the core of the Festival. This year, at the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (30 October - 9 November 2025),...
We are delighted to unveil the 32 full-length films and the 30 short films screened at the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, within the framework of the Greek Film Festival. For yet...
With beloved chef Sotiris Kontizas as ambassador, the Agora of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival returns — more dynamic than ever. This year, Agora is organizing an exciting...
The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival is hosting a deeply political tribute titled Fragilities, focusing on the limitations that demarcate the fragile human nature. The tribute is part...
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in collaboration with production and distribution company Finos Film, this year will honor 37 iconic actors and actresses who starred in many of the...
The radiant and multi-awarded film star Isabelle Huppert is the 66th TIFF's guest of honor! The iconic French actress will deliver a grand masterclass on Tuesday November 4th, open to the public,...
The 66th TIFF (30/10-09/11/2025) hosts a tribute on the technique of plot twist, adopting a subversive approach on this valuable narrative tool. The tribute titled Plot Twist, Beyond the Sixth Sense goes...
The posters of the 66th International Film Festival (30/10-9/11/2025) bear the signature of the acclaimed Greek visual artist Stefanos Rokos, who created two original works for the Festival’s...
The 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (30/10-09/11/2025) will bestow its honorary Golden Alexander to the renowned Greek filmmaker Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, while hosting a full-scale...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
22nd THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL [19-28/5/2020]
Welcome to the online 22nd TDF
The 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival goes online and presents 210 documentaries from all over the world, original tributes and a series of live open discussions.
From Tuesday May 19 to Thursday May 28, users from Greece will be able, with a simple registration to our website www.filmfestival.gr to watch the documentaries of the 22nd TDF for free. Every documentary will be available for 400 screenings.
The poster was created by designer Sakis Stritsidis and the official trailer of the online 22nd TDF was created by Nikos Pastras.
COMPETITION SECTIONS
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival presents three international competition sectors: Feature Length International Competition, Newcomers International Competition (with first or second films by filmmakers) and >>Film Forward International Competition.
GREEK DOCUMENTARIES
Greek documentaries are present and they are evolving rapidly. Overall, 77 Greek productions will be screened and Greek documentaries will compete at the international competition sections.
TRIBUTES
We organize a complete and unpredictable tribute to animated documentary, a hybrid sub-genre that is developing constantly.
We explore a topic of geological, environmental, social, philosophical, political and cultural aspects, with the daring tribute to the Anthropocene Epoch.
We familiarize with the world of memes, by watching exciting, sharp, political and humorous documentaries.
LIVE OPEN DISCUSSIONS
The online 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival offers a series of live open discussions on its YouTube channel.
We talk with the renowned war correspondent Robert Fisk, protagonist of the documentary This is Not a Movie and the film’s director Yung Chang, Thursday May 21, 21.00.
We participate in the most timely discussion on the Anthropocene epoch and the effects of human interference with the environment, on Sunday May 24, at 20.00. With: Orestis Andreadakis, the artistic director of TIFF/ Yiannis Boutaris, president and founder of Arcturos / Kostas Stasinopoulos, curator and art historian, Serpentine Galleries, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)/ Konstantinos Voudouris Professor of Geology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/ Vanessa Archontidou, alpinist/ Chrysostomos Stamoulis, Professor of Theology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
We enter the world of memes through an open discussion with Matthias Fritsch, the director of The Story of the Technoviking, the vice-president of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR) Yiannis Ioannidis and The Real Ancient Memes, on Wednesday, May 27, 20.00.
DOCS FOR KIDS
The screenings Docs for Kids of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival for students, will be available for free from May 19 to May 28 for children and teenagers from Greece.
The awards of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will, also, be announced during the festival.
