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A special screening of Michael Premo’s film Homegrown took place on Tuesday, November 5th, at the Tonia Marketaki theater, on the day of the most crucial presidential election in the United States in the last decades. After the screening, a discussion followed featuring Nicolas Sevastakis, Professor at AUTh’s School of Political Sciences, the Festival’s Artistic Director, Orestis Andreadakis, and journalist-head of the Journalists' Union of Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers, Yannis Kotsifos.

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On Monday, November 4th, Greek composer Nikos Kypourgos delivered a masterclass titled: “Thoughts on Music in Cinema", within the framework of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Meet the Future action. This year’s Meet the Future foregrounds the art of film scoring through the tribute “Music in Motion: The Art of Film Scoring”.

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The Agora of the 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival bestowed its awards at a special event held on Wednesday, November 6th, at Warehouse C, attended by Victoria Hislop, this year's Agora ambassador. 

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Within the context of the Agora Talks of the 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival, a discussion titled “A powerful perspective” was held on Wednesday November 6th at the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, in collaboration with Women in Film and Television Greece (WIFT GR). The panelists were: Fatih Abay, diversity and inclusivity officer at European Film Academy (Germany), Elena Athanasiadou, producer at Boo Productions (Greece), Chrysianna Papadaki, director and screenwriter (Greece) and Anna Germanidi, director of exhibition & programming from Modern Films (UK).

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The members of the International Competition Jury are: Denis Côté, filmmaker; Sara Driver, filmmaker and producer; and Konstantinos Kontovrakis, producer.

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Kostas Christides’ masterclass titled “Scoring a Life Between Hollywood and Greece” was held on Tuesday, November 5th. The event took place within the framework of the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Meet the Future action. This year’s Meet the Future foregrounds the art of film scoring through the tribute “Music in Motion: The Art of Film Scoring”.

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