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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

Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A highly narrative dramatic - romantic film by by Robin Campillo dealing with male prostitution and the trafficking of boys from the Eastern Europe in France. Winner of 70th Venice Orizzonti section.

Boy Meets Girl (1984)

The first masterfully structured abstract elegiac work by Leos Carax as he becomes French cinema's most acknowledged enfant terrible.

Shell – Torino 30

A slow paced family kitchen sink drama directed by Scott Graham and set in the Scottish highlands. Winner of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Ruben Östlund dismantles the nuclear perfect iconic family as the predominant father figure fails to support his socially imposed gender role.

Fuoco! (Fire!, 1968)

Gian Vittorio Baldi directs a piece of art that through its consistency can work on political and dramaturgical level without losing its impactful realism.

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Surveying the Balkans

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

Boy Meets Girl (1984)

Shell – Torino 30

Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)

Fuoco! (Fire!, 1968)

Kieślowski on his work

But the cinephile is…

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

Chris Marker on time

Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams