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Agora Docs is an inseparable and invaluable part of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which supports the documentary medium from the stage of development to the financing, completion and distribution of the film.

Dynamic and innovative, the 23^rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival returns, fully adapted to the conditions created by the pandemic, with the need to explore new ways of expression.

This year’s edition will take place as a hybrid event: It will start on March (4-14/3) and will culminate in a documentary celebration that will take place from June 24 until July 4, 2021, in the Festival’s physical spaces, if the conditions allow, and online.

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival and its people bid farewell to Dimitri Eipides, the creator and founder of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and for years director of the institution. Dimitri Eipides, who created the section New Horizons, opening a window to a great cinema, which was unknown to Europe until then, passed away on Wednesday.

We are happy to announce that the Europa Cinemas Best Programming award goes to the four cinema screens of the Thessaloniki Film Festival: Olympion, Pavlos Zannas, John Cassavetes and Stavros Tornes. The award is an important recognition, especially at this time of unprecedented challenges faced by cinemas all over Europe.