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British journalist and writer Robert Fisk is the most important war journalist of the Middle East, ceaselessly reporting from 1976 to this day, and the man who interviewed Osama bin Laden three times. He is the protagonist of the film This Is Not a Movie by Yung Chang. Robert Fisk and Yung Chang will participate in a live discussion.
An innocent yet mercilessly wary gaze at reality learns to read the world. The Docs for Kids screenings of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival for students will be available online for free from May 19 to May 28, so that children and teenagers all over Greece would have the opportunity to discover them at home.
77 short and feature Greek documentaries will be screened online in the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in the sections International Competition Feature Length, Newcomers and Film Forward and in the Open Horizons, From screen to Screen and Platform.
Don't miss an interesting live discussion that investigates the phenomenon of "memes" and its impact – from our daily laughter break to issues of human rights and their violation, in the framework of the original, groundbreaking, and daring spotlight to memes organized by 22nd TDF online.
Why does the Festival hold a tribute to the Anthropocene, when we barely know what the word means? Human presence on Earth overturns the balance and jeopardizes the future of our planet. For this reason, the tribute titled “Anthropocene” is framed by a discussion that approaches this topic in a cinematic vein, but also with regard to philosophy, science, and nature, addressing open questions and seeking answers.
The 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (19 – 28/5/2020) presents an extensive tribute to animated documentary, a surprising hybrid sub-genre that has grown rapidly in the last few years.
