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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

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

Pioneer Heroes (Pionery-geroi) – Berlinale 65 Panorama

The debut feature film by Natalya Kudryashova is a story of broken heroes with destroyed expectations that try to survive in a hostile and unidealistic present.

Krugovi (Circles, 2013)

A heroic act during the Yugoslav war haunts the lives of the heroes. Concentric circles of fate can bring atonement. Directed by Srdan Golubović.

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Skammen (Shame, 1968)

Ingmar Bergman, in one of his lesser known masterpieces, de-dramatizes a war by transferring all its tragedy to Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow and inevitably to his audience too.

TagThessaloniki

Surveying the Balkans

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Pioneer Heroes (Pionery-geroi) – Berlinale 65 Panorama

Krugovi (Circles, 2013)

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Skammen (Shame, 1968)

I don’t like the word success

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions

Sogni d’Oro (1981)

Kieślowski on his work

Leos Carax and his island