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With new collaborations and prizes, Agora, the most dynamic and vibrant documentary industry event in Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean, returns for the upcoming 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, held from March 7-17, 2024. Agora is happy to announce a new partnership with IEFTA Foundation, which will hand out a new award, accompanied by a 10,000-euro prize, to a project participating in Thessaloniki Pitching Forum.

With 86,000 spectators and visitors, the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival has come to a close, reaching pre-pandemic levels of attendance, specifically those of 2019 and the 60th Thessaloniki Film Festival. From November 2nd to 12th, the 64th Festival hosted premieres, fascinating discussions and masterclasses, in addition to welcoming prominent figures of cinema and intellectuals, including Monica Bellucci, Alexander Payne, Jeremy Podeswa, Mark Mazower, Nikos Perakis and Volker Schlöndorff. It also had the pleasure of having the much-loved Harris Alexiou as an ambassador of the Agora.

The 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival called it a wrap on Sunday, November 12th, at Olympion, with the screening of the film Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismäki, awarded with the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and Finland’s official submission on this year’s Academy Award for Best International Film.

The discussion, titled "Iconic Talks powered by Mastercard:  The Evolution, Challenges and Future Visions of the LGBTQI+ Portrayals in Greek TV and Cinema" took place on Saturday, November 11th, at Pavlos Zannas theater. The participants of the discussion were: Vasilis Kekatos (filmmaker), Dimitra Papadopoulou (actress and screenwriter}, Dimitris Tsiklis (actor), Zacharias Mavroeidis, (director and screenwriter), Andreas Lambropoulos (actor), and Fenia Apostolou, (actress, choreographer and director).

Within the framework of the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival, a special screening of the first three episodes of the highly anticipated TV series 17 Threads took place on Saturday, November 11th, at a packed Tonia Marketaki theater. The new series is produced by COSMOTE TV, the Festival's grand sponsor.