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Great cinema ahead of TFF's main event
27.10.2026
NEWS
Two excellent new films, along with a special late night screening for Halloween await us at TFF's venues as an ideal prelude to the upcoming 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
In fact, the Festival’s venues are participating once again this year in Cinema Day, on Thursday, October 29, 2026, with a general admission of just €3 for every screening.
Do not miss out at the Festival's theaters:
- The chilling political thriller Eagles of the Republic by the Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh, screened at the Cannes Film Festival and featuring a captivating score by Alexandre Desplat, a film that begins as a satire but evolves into the boldest political film of the year. In modern-day Egypt, under the authoritarian rule of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, actor George Fahmy receives a proposal from the government, to portray el-Sisi in a propagandistic biopic, George is in no position to refuse.
Watch the trailer here
At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 21:15
- Eirini Vourloumis’ moving documentary The Way Elsewhere, a portrait of Athens told through the lives of three veteran taxi drivers (Konstantinos, Sunny, Yorgos) who move through the city as quiet dreamers. Combining observation with musical sequences, the film, which held its world premiere at the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, explores routine, memory, and desire in a city shaped by crisis and perseverance.
Watch the trailer here
At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 19:00
- John Carpenter’s iconic Halloween, a film that established new rules for horror cinema, influenced like no other the horror iconography and played a decisive role in the shaping of the slasher genre. On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away inside a sanitarium under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. On October 30, 1978, Myers escapes and makes his way back home to Haddonfield, turning a night of tricks and treats into something much more sinister for three young women.
Watch the trailer here
At Olympion: Friday 22:30
Two more films continue their successful course in the Festival's theaters:
- The touching All of a Sudden, the most recent film of the great Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, which is Japan’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Marie-Lou Fontaine, the new director of a Paris nursing home strives for a more humane care for the elders, adopting the «Humanitude» method, despite resistance from her team. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a philosopher from Japan, changes her life, all of a sudden.
Watch the trailer here
At Olympion: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 20:15
- NAZA, the shocking documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor about Gaza, which stunned audiences and critics at the recent Venice Film Festival. The new documentary by the Israeli filmmakers, shot in utmost secrecy at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, focuses on the mass killings of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Watch the trailer here
At Olympion: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday 18:30 & Friday 20:00
