In a heart-wrenching evening event, full of emotion and intense feelings, the film The City and the City by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas returned to its… city, following its world premiere at Berlinale’s Encounters competition section, was screened within the framework of the 24^th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, on Tuesday March 15, in the overflowing Olympion theater.

French documentary filmmaker and sound artist Frédérique Pressmann delved into the evolution, the tools, the particular features and the various genres of sound documentary, as well as the differences between sound and film documentary in the masterclass “Writing with Sounds” she delivered on Tuesday March 15, at Pavlos Zannas theater, within the framework of the 24^th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

Unveiling of the Docs in Progress projects of the 24th TDF's Agora Docs

The presentation of the Thessaloniki Pitching Forum projects of the 24th TDF's Agora Docs took place on March 14, 2022

With our eyes set on the dramatic events taking place in Ukraine over the last three weeks, Thessaloniki Documentary is including two additional screenings in its program. The lyric fiction movie Toloka directed by Mikhail Ilenko will be screened, with a free admission, on Thursday March 17th, at 12:00, at John Cassavetes theater. The acclaimed Ukranian director was helped to flee Kyiv so as to escape from the horror of war and will attend Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to preface the screening of his film and answer the audience’s questions.

The screening of the documentary Dimitris Skyllas: AFTERPOP was accompanied by live music performance and was attended by both the director and Dimitris Skyllas himself, on Saturday March 12^th, in the overflowing theater Tonia Marketaki. The event was prefaced by a trumpet solo, featuring the movie’s main theme, performed by Dimitris Gogas. The screening was followed by a Q&A.

The Grocer by Dimitris Koutsiabasakos, the 24th TDF's universally accessible screening, was held on Saturday March 12th, at Olympion. The screening, as all universally accessible screenings held within the framework of both Thessaloniki International Film Festival and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, was carried out in collaboration with Alpha Bank, the Festival’s accessibility sponsor.

Films with an innocent yet wary gaze at reality, which learns to read the world.