International Competition

The phrase “Touch me not,” addressed by the Risen Christ to Mary Magdalene before his empty tomb, according to the Gospel of John (20:17), has served as our lodestar in selecting and classifying the ten films in the International Competition Section of the 21st Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The issues arising from this phrase (social, racial, gender-related, psychoanalytical and above all profoundly political) run through the films, prompting us to see them in many different ways.