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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

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

With his directorial debut, Yorgos Zois breaks the fourth wall as he is experimenting on how myth and art interrupt actual life. Or is it the other way around?

Deniz Gamze Ergüven creates a "joyful" feministic fairytale that explores if teen rebelliousness and sexual awareness can survive in conservative Anatolia. Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

Io e Te (Me and You, 2012)

Bernardo Bertolucci is directing again and his last film Io e Te is an adolescent emotional drama that can still impress the fans of the Italian director.

Magdanas Lurja (Magdana’s Donkey, 1955)

The debut film by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze is a rural period neorealistic drama set in 19th century Georgia.

Bezúčelná Procházka (Aimless Walk, 1930)

Alexandr Hackenschmied directs the landmark of Czechoslovak avant-garde cinema and one of the most influential of its genre.

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Surveying the Balkans

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Mustang – Sarajevo 21

Io e Te (Me and You, 2012)

Magdanas Lurja (Magdana’s Donkey, 1955)

Bezúčelná Procházka (Aimless Walk, 1930)

those lacking imagination

Biće Skoro Propast Sveta (It Rains in My Village, 1968)

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

Introduction to Faces by John Cassavetes

Grandrieux on his films