As the thessaloniki INTAL. The Documentary Festival prepares to host its 27th edition, which runs on 6 – 16 March, Festival Director Orestries Andradekis has no lack of dangers for truth, freedom and values that are democratic system based. “Four months have passed (Thessaloniki INTAL. Film Festival), but it seems that we are already living in a completely different world – unfortunately, not a better,” Andradekis said. Diversity,
Times, preferring for “a historical documentary about the 1930s, screening backwards”, described world events as “an academic documentary” that taught us nothing. This is a testimony to the terror of fascism and totalitarianism that we seem that we have forgotten, “that continues. “This is a film record of a terrible historical reality that is trying to repeat something worst.”
This year’s festival rarely begins a fortnight after the Russian war in Ukraine, and its three -year anniversary was marked, and appears in danger demanding to end that bloody struggle as a difficult ceasefire in Gaza. In the US, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on personal freedom and political criteria in his first six weeks in the office. Meanwhile, Europe’s constant right twist was solved from recent elections in Germany, where the remote AFD party won 20% of the popular votes.
While comprehensive disturbance and uncertainty can create a great perception of a documentary film festival, however, and Dakis has emphasized such incidents that underline the importance of art as “bullwark” against the attack on our basic principles “the value of the truth is in danger of being irrelevant.”
“The art of the documentary tries to preserve the reality. This is the most important thing in our difficult times. To realize what truth is, what reality is, ”he says. Screening of this year’s films Thessaloniki Documentary Festival “Picture and unveil what we experience in our indefinite time.”
The festival kicks on 6 March with “about a hero” (depicted), with the AI-Acissed documentary of the director Piyot Vinwicks, which is rejecting the German autorler Wnerner Herzog-which is rejecting loudly by creating an artificial version of the film Herzog. Closing film, Shoshah Sturn’s “Marley Metlin: Not Alone Naris”, which is fresh from a well -obtained Sundans premiere, tells the story of Titular, Trailblazing actor, who became the first deaf man to win an Oscar in 1986.
A total of 261 documentaries will be screening beyond the three main competition classes and diverse programming strands of the festival, including 72 worlds, 40 international and 11 European premiere. Among them are 71 features and host Nation short films, reflecting Andradekis and the programming team’s commitment to Thessaloniki Doctor Fest as the “Shocks of the Greek industry”.
Highlights from the international competition, which sees 10 films for Golden Alexander, includes a trio of documentaries coming from the Sunndan Premier – “Co -existence, my ass!,” Amber Fireus’ Israeli activist and comedian Noam Shuster AliaC’s Pictures; Jessie Short Bull and David France’s “Free Leonard Peltier”, about the original American worker, who spent almost half a century in jail; And about Jianluka Matras’ “Gen_”, an unconventional doctor at a reproductive clinic in Milan, as well as Juano Perera’s “Under the Flags, The Sun”, which follows the search for a 35-year dictatorship of an audiovizual archive documenting paraguay, which was debuted at the Berlin Film Festival.
The main competition includes the “Sculptured Sols” in the World Premier, the latest documentary of veteran Greek filmmaker Stavrose Pillicis, who is with a Swiss dentist, who has treated lepters in Greece in about three decades, and “Dust’s baby, which is about the left during dusting, which is about an American Solder.
Weronika is a premiere of MlicZewska’s “Child of Dust” in the festival.
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The light of the other celebration includes a screening of Steve Pink’s “The Last Republican”, which follows the efforts of former Republican politician Adam Kinger to judge Donald Trump after the 6 January attack on Capital, as well as a Scinening of a Scinening of Telda Swintan, a scinening of the Tillada Swinton, who includes a scinening of the Tillada Swint. ,
An honorary Golden Alexander will be honored to French filmmaker Nicholas Philibert, who will distribute a masterclass on 8 March, and whose vipul career will be celebrated with films including BAFTA Nominee “Two be & to Haav” and Berlin Golden Beer winner “The Admant”. American documentary filmmaker and multi-haphane actor Lauren Greenfield will also be honored with a tribute for his award-winning work, including the Sunndan Award winner “The Queen of Versay” and his most recent project, documentary series “Social Studies”. Greenfield will distribute a masterclass on 13 March.
The 27th edition of the festival begins on a few days removed from a large -scale protests on the two -year anniversary of the Tempe Railway Disaster, with 57 people lost their lives, with hundreds of thousands of Greeks to the streets, which was described as the country’s biggest protest since the fall of military jute in 1974.
The Tempe tragedy on the eve of the 25th edition of the festival inspired the organizers to cancel the opening ceremony of that year amid unprecedented national criticism of anger and grief. Two years later, with the memories of that sad day, there is still a plan to protest more in fresh, Thessaloniki and Greece, as the country wants justice for the tragic loss of so many people.
Against that background, this year’s festival hopes to do what to do to get so many documentary filmmakers: to bear the witness, spark the debate, speak the truth for power and to provide some measurements of comfort and community.
“Thessaloniki is a city that bears memory and history. It is a place that knows about geopolitical stresses, and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has always been a place of dialogue, of freedom, of culture, of ”Andradekis says. “This is the most important thing. Because art is one of the most powerful weapons of democracy. ,
Thessaloniki Intl. The documentary festival runs on 6 – 16 March.
