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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

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

The pioneering Czechoslovak science fiction film by Jindrich Polák, based on Stanislaw Lem's The Magellanic Cloud.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence – Venice 71

The best finale to Roy Andersson's witty and extremely unpredictable existentialistic Living Trilogy. Golden Lion at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20

Friend Request is trying to deal in the most detached way with the unsolved and crucial problems that the Middle East faces.

Marécages (Wetlands, 2011)

Α highly realistic kitchen sink drama of a family's dissolution set in the rural isolated environment of Quebec's Wetlands. Debut feature film by Guy Édoin.

Tharlo – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Pema Tseden depicts through a visually immaculate and lyrical slow burning film, how rough is to search for your own inner hidden identity.

TagThessaloniki

Surveying the Balkans

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence – Venice 71

A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20

Marécages (Wetlands, 2011)

Tharlo – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Kieślowski and the magic of screen

David Cronenberg on Manipulation

Chris Marker on time

There has always been violence in art

John Cassavetes: I am here and I don’t know why