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Directors Deborah Perkin (Bastards), Bernard Dichek (The Kalusz I thought I Knew) and Jesse Roesler (The Starfish Throwers) gave a press conference on Monday, 17 March 2014, in the context of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
On account of her film Bastards, Deborah Perkin talked about Moroccan society, where, as in all Muslim countries, sex outside marriage is illegal and women bear the brunt of society’s disapproval. Such a woman is the protagonist of the film, Ms Perkin expla...
16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. 14-23 March 2014
PRESS CONFERENCE- SALT FLATS / RELENTLESS / PALIKARI (LOUIS TIKAS AND THE LUDLOW MASSACRE)
Directors Ira Dika, Yorgos Savoglou (Salt Flats), Dimitris Statiris (Relentless) and Nikolaos Ventouras (Palikari: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre) gave a press conference on Monday, 17 March 2014, in the context of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Forty days are needed to create only a f...
OneA Press Conference was held on Monday, March 17, 2014 as part of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival by directors Annamaria Gallone (She is my Husband), Paul-Anders Simma (Olga-To My Friends), Gabor Ferenczi (Overdose - Run For A Dream) and David Andre (We Did It On A Song).
Annamaria Gallone first took the floor, whose documentary She is my Husband. Top of Form records the decision of 52 year old Alessandro to become a woman (Alessandra), while talking about his relationship with his...
16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. 14-23 March 2014. Nastia Tarasova (Linar) and Christoph Schaub (Millions can Walk) gave the first press conference of the 16th edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Linar, this year’s opening film, follows the story of Linar, a young boy from Russia, who travels to Italy to receive a heart transplant, as the practice is illegal in his home country. Commenting on the absurdity of this law, Nastia Tarasov...
Directors Emily Yannoukou and Alexandros Papanikolaou (Hope on the Line), Stathis Galazoulas (The Other Human), Alexandra Anthony (Lost in the Bewildreness) and Costas Pliakos (Yusef’s Song) gave a press conference on Sunday, 16 March 2014, in the context of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Stathis Galazoulas explained how he selected Konstantinos Polychronopoulos as his protagonist. Mr Polychronopoulos is the protagonist in “The Other Human”, a mobile soup kitchen ...
On Sunday, March 16, 2014 a press conference was held by directors Iva Radivojevic (Evaporating Borders), Nocem Collado (Women And Water), Axel Salvatori-Sinz (The Shebabs Of Yarmouk), Horacio Alcala (Grazing The Sky) and Shawney Cohen (The Manor).
Axel Salvatori-Sinz spoke first, referring to his decision to travel to Syria in order to film the lives of the Shebabs, a group of young Palestinian refugees living in the Yarmouk camp. He said: “I completed the film two years ago. When I met ...
Peter Wintonick Tribute:
Few people have contributed to the documentary universe as invaluably as Peter Wintonick (1953-2013). The Canadian director, producer, programmer, writer and film critic has fervently served the documentary realm in his various capacities and has become a mentor for generations of documentary professionals.
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honours the award-winning filmmaker with a tribute that comprises some of his most representative work, as well as a...
OPENING CEREMONY of the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century. 14-23 March 2014
The curtain rose on the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century with a discrete opening ceremony held on Friday, March 14, 2014, at a packed Olympion theater. Nastia Tarasova’s documentary Linar, which chronicles the touching adventure of a frail young boy, was screened after the ceremony.
In his opening remarks, Thessaloniki Documentar...
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
DOC MARKET. March 16 - 22, 10.00 – 20.00. ELECTRA PALACE HOTEL, Byzantium Hall, 1st Floor, Aristotelous Sq.
The International Doc Market, introduced in 1999, will be held in the Byzantium hall at the 1st floor of the Electra Palace Hotel at Aristotelous Sq. next to the Festival headquarters, providing a substantial space to its participants, outfitted with 30 digital booths for private viewin...
'Linar' (2013) by Nastia Tarasova, Russia.
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
OPENING FILM Linar by Nastia Tarasova, Russia, 2013 A young boy with a wise heart leads the way for the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opening night. Linar by Nastia Tarasova follows the odyssey of Linar, a Russian boy who travels to Italy to receive a heart transplant. Tarasova narrates with sensitivity and respect Linar’s adve...
16th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL - Images of the 21st Century. March 14 – 23, 2014
16th TDF FILM LINE-UP, FIPRESCI JURY & SIDEBAR EVENTS
The 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 185 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.
FILM PREMIERES
The 16th TDF presents 3 wor...
53rd TIFF LINE-UP, JURIES & PARALLEL EVENTS This year’s 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicked off this Friday, November 2nd.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION JURY:
Thomas Elsaesser, Film theorist and academic, Germany, Jury President Laufrey Gudjonsdottir, Programmer, consultant, founding director of the Icelandic Film Center, Iceland Ole Christian Madsen, Director, Denmark Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Director, Portugal Thymios Bakatakis, Cinematographer, Greece...
During the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, by far one of the most poignant films for me was the ensemble film: ‘5 Broken Cameras’ by Israeli director Guy Davidi and Palestinian director Emad Burnat. The story is about Palestinian farmer/filmmaker Emad Burnat who feels it his purpose in life to film the events taking place in his Palestinian village Bil’in while Israeli soldiers take over the village to build Israeli settlements.
What starts as peaceful d...
Victor Kossakovsky’s VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! (2011) –(LONG LIVE THE ANTIPODES!) premiered this year at the 68th Venice Film Festival and most recently screened to audiences at the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. It is for me one of the most memorable documentaries since Ron Fricke’s BARAKA (1992), similar in form as a type of guided meditation which takes us a...
Film still from Into The Abyss (2011)
One of the most talked about documentaries of the year, Werner Herzog’s film INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE (2011) screened at this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival.
The film focuses on two prisoners in the USA who (during the filming) await death row. In the film, Herzog intervi...
The Greek documentary film ‘Stavroula’ (2011) screened at the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. 21 year-old filmmaker Ira Dika’s debut proves a delightfully insightful and soulful film about an elderly Greek woman, Stavroula, seen through the eyes of the filmmaker herself, Ira, a young woman. In the film, Stavroula says to Ira: “Everything flows and nothing...
Danish director Daan Veldhuizen attended the 14th TDF this year with his stunningly shot film “Stories From Lakka Beach” (2011). The film focuses on today’s Sierra Leone and the struggle of everyday life on the serene edenic Lakka beach village where today all of its people appear to live in harmony alongside each other. But this peace wasn’t always so and perhaps it wont always be. In a land that has seen the ever advancing onslaught of u...
The Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to:
ITALY, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, Italy/Germany, 2011
The 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) took place from March 9 - 18, 2012. The award ceremony took place on March 17th.
14th TDF AWARDS!!!
AUDIENCE AWARDS
The Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection goes to:
ITALY, LOVE...
AT NIGHT I FLY by Michel Wenzer
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PRESS CONFERENCE
LION SOULS / CARTOGRAPHY OF LONELINESS / AT NIGHT I FLY / I AM A WOMAN NOW
As part of the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, a Press Conference was held on Friday, March 16, 2012. Participating were directors Manu Gerosa and Salva Munoz (Lion Souls), Nocem Collado (Cartography of Loneliness), Michel Wenzer (At Night I Fly) and Alex Bakker, researcher for the film I Am a Woman N...
Film still from WHORE’S GLORY (2011) by Michael Glawogger
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PRESS CONFERFENCE THE BENGALI DETECTIVE / THE KING / WHORE’S GLORY
On Saturday, March 17, 2012 a Press Conference was held with the directors Dejan Aćimović (The King), Philip Cox (The Bengali Detective) and Michael Glawogger (Whore’s Glory), whose films are participating in the edition’s international program.
The King by Dejan Aćimović is a portrait of Darko K...
The documentary film OPEN SECRET (2011) by director Steve Lickteig screened at the 14th TDF. The film is about Steve Lickteig’s search for his real parents, a search which endured for 20 years. Steve was adopted by Don and Mary Jane Lickteig and was raised on their farm in rural Kansas. When Steve was 18 he discovered a shocking secret that everyone in the town knew except himself, that he was the son of his oldest sister, Joanie. A sibling to eight children of Don and Mary, he w...
The film DESERT RIDERS (2011) screened at the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Writer/Producer Noemi Weis attended the festival in support of the film.
DESERT RIDERS is about the trafficking of poor children to Middle Eastern countries who are forced into slavery as camel jockeys for the extremely lucrative business of camel racing. Many of the children have died during the races or suffered from malnutrition and are scarred for life. Due to pressure from me...
PRESS CONFERENCE EYAL SIVAN
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Israeli director Eyal Sivan held a press conference on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Mr. Sivan is attending the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century on the occasion of the Tribute to his work that the festival has organized. Mr. Dimitri Eipides, Director of the TDF and TIFF, introduced this leading representative of political documentaries, known for his unconventional views regarding the Pa...
photo still of 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2011)
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The Just Talking session of the 14th TDF of Tuesday, March 13 hosted the directors Amalia Zepou & Lydia Carras (Dry Stone-wall, Support of the Aegean), Nikos Katsaounis & Nina Maria Paschalidou (Krisis), Guy Davidi (Five Broken Cameras), Magnus Gertten (Harbor of Hope), Eric Black & Frauke Sandig (Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth), Gaston Solnicki (Papirosen) and Margret Jonasdottir, producer of Last ...
photo still of MUSTAFA'S SWEET DREAMS (2011)
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PRESS CONFERENCE WITH ANGELOS ABAZOGLOU
A Press Conference with Angelos Abazoglou was held on Monday, March 11, 2012, in the framework of the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. This year’s festival carries out a tribute to the French creator with Greek origins, including screenings of several of his films.
Festival Director Dimitris Eipides welcomed everyone present at the conference and ...
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