The Thessaloniki Film Festival will host during the month of September three major events:
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Parallel to the Commercial Fair organized in early September in Thessaloniki by HELLEXPO, the Festival together with the French Institute will hold a Tribute to the new French cinema.
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Seventy six films are presented in this year's program in this context. The theme sections revolve around "loans" of image and movement: loans from other cultures, from far away, from the past, from other arts. Loans, or however else one may be inclined to call this activity, enrich moving images, and enable relations, encounters, and free movement to flourish.
In the section Body / Image: a fragmentary reality, the relationship between the body and the invasion of images is explored. In the context of both of these sections, Maarten Vanden Abeele's film Meg Stuart's Alibi will be shown. Based on the performance Alibi by Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods, the director of the film will be attending its world premiere in the opening of the festival.
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From the 20 to 26th September a Tribute to the Japanese director Shohei Imamura will be held in Athens and from 27th September to 3 October in Thessaloniki.
The films included in this tribute are:
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Kanzo sensei
Dr. Akagi
Unagi
The Eel
Kuroi ame
Black Rain
Zegen
Narayama bushiko
Ballad of Narayama
Eijanaika
Why Not?
Fukushû suruwa wareniari
Vengeance Is Mine
Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo
The Profound Desire of the Gods
Ningen Johatsu
A Man Vanishes
Jinruigaku nyumon
The Pornographer
Akai satsui
Intentions of Murder
Nippon konchuki
The Insect Woman
Buta to gunkan
Pigs and Battleships
Nianchan
My Second Brother
Hateshinaki yokubo
Endless Desire
Nishi Ginza ekimae
Nishi Ginza
Nusumareta yokujo
Stolen Desire
