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Crossroads Co-production Forum & Works in Progress

The 63rd TIFF's Agora presented this year's projects taking part in the Crossroads Co-production Forum and Works in Progress section, on Monday November 7th.

Dodo by Panos H. Koutras flew in the packed Olympion theater

A strange exotic bird flew all the way from Cannes all the way to Olympion! Dodo by Panos H. Koutras was screened on Monday November 7^th in a special screening within the framework of the 63^rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in the presence of the director and all of his sparkling cast at the stage of the packed Olympion.

Smaragda Karydi, Akis Sakellariou, Natassa Exintaveloni, Nikos Gelia, Angelos Papadimitriou, Mariella Savvidou, Marissa Triantafyllidou, Polydoros Vogiatzis, Jeff Montana, Kris Radanov, Anna Djorjikia, Ahmad Kontar, Tzortzis Papadopoulos accompanied Panos H. Koutras on stage to present the film that celebrated its premiere at the 75^th Cannes Film Festival. The movie was also screened in a special pre-festival screening in Athens, on Monday October 31^st, at Onassis Cultural Centre Athens.

A Dodo, a bird extinct for the last 300 years, shows up at the villa of a formerly wealthy family in Athens. The owners are counting down the critical two days to their daughter’s wedding, which will bring their financial salvation. In Dodo's presence, the already thin line between sanity and madness collapses as the situation spins out of control

The movie will hit Greek theaters on Thursday November 10^th, distributed by Tulip Entertainment.

Colloquium on Maria Plyta: The “unknown” female director of Greek cinema

In the framework of the 63rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Laboratory for the Study of Greek Cinema & Television (EMEKT) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Film presented a workshop on Maria Plyta titled “The ‘unknown’ of Greek Cinema”. The event took place on November 7, at Pavlos Zannas Hall. Eleftheria Thanouli, President of the Festival's Board of Directors and Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Film welcomed the audience. Mrs. Thanouli initially talked about the action of EMEKT since 2014, focused on education, with the aim of training young researchers and offering knowledge and insight in both cinema and television.