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Specials, Thessaloniki 2015

Surveying the Balkans

An in-depth interview with Thessaloniki's Balkan Survey programmer Dimitris Kerkinos in order to discover if the Balkan Cinema really exists.

Festival News

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

REVIEWS

L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance, 2011)

Bertrand Bonello's provocative tableau vivant that explores the female sexuality set in a brothel at the turn of the 20th century.

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

A visually impressive and highly emotional coming-of-age film by Naji Abu Nowar, set in the Jordanian desert just before the Arab Revolt. Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

Force of Evil (1948)

Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.

Piccola Patria (Small Homeland) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A typical rural kitchen sink drama in the industrialized Italian region of Veneto that now faces the economical crisis. Directed by Alessandro Rossetto.

I.D. – Torino 30

The debut film by the Indian director Kamal K.M. where the drama of a lost identity meets a bleak thriller in both worlds of modern Mumbai.

TagThessaloniki

Surveying the Balkans

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance, 2011)

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

Force of Evil (1948)

Piccola Patria (Small Homeland) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

I.D. – Torino 30

Je vais au cinéma…

There has always been violence in art

Federico Fellini & James Bond

Leos Carax and his island

Sogni d’Oro (1981)