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Specials, Thessaloniki 2015

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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.

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Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival 2013

REVIEWS

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.

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.

Viharsarok (Land of Storms) – Sarajevo 20

A deeply emotional and visually impressive drama by Ádám Császi, that exposes the issue of homophobia in modern day Hungary.

Aquarius – Jerusalem 33

In his sophomore film, Kleber Mendonça Filho penetrates Brazilian falsely beautified society through Sônia Braga's stunning performance.

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.

QUOTES

Jodorowsky’s Endless Dream

I will stop wanting to wake up! Abomination, destroy me!

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

Directed by Aleksandar Petrovič

Pasolini: L’anarchia del potere

Nulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuole

The ideas of David Lynch

The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them.

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem