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THE THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL PARTICIPATES IN #SKG BRIDGES FESTIVAL
MAY 2018MAY 2018
The Thessaloniki Film Festival invites the audience to experience an exciting film celebration of youth, as part of its participation in #SKG Bridges Uprising Arts & Culture Festival, a large festival of youth culture focused on diverse art forms and artists from the European South, that will take place from Wednesday, May 9th to Sunday, May 13th 2018 at various public venues in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Within this framework TFF presents the free-admissiontribute "Wild Hearts” that will be held during the #SKG Bridges Festival in the two cinema theatres located at Warehouse 1(Port of Thessaloniki), presenting 8 films of recent production that defined cinema’s relationship with youth and highlighted important aspects of this milestone period of human life. All films will be screened with English subtitles.
The films explore the charming vices of youth by tackling its constant transformations: from the joyous acceptance of life’s challenges and the immense creative momentum, to the definition of the inner self and the conflict with the adult world. Starting with Clio Barnard’s tender film The Selfish Giant, the tribute moves on to introduce us to the competitive male protagonists in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier, the little “princess” starring in Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, the party-going youngsters in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! and the three-part story of Chiron in Barry Jenkins' Oscar-winning film Moonlight, passing by Yannis Sakaridis’ Amerika Square located in Athens, Greece, to a fishing village in Iceland that provides the backdrop in Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Heartstone, ending up to the independent, passionate heroines of Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood.
The #SKG Bridges Festival is an initiative of the Office of Social Policies of the Greek Prime Minister’s General Secretariat in cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and aims to bring together Thessaloniki-based institutions, organizations, groups and initiatives, urging the participation of artists from Southern European countries. All events are admission free.
Screenings schedule
Wednesday 9/5
19:00 The Selfish Giant
21:30 Everybody Wants Some!!
Thursday 10/5
19:00 Girlhood
21:30 Amerika Square: Film presentation by the protagonist, actor Vassilis Koukalani
Friday 11/5
19:00 Heartstone
22:00 Chevalier: Film presentation by the protagonist, actor Yorgos Pyrpassopoulos
Sunday 13/5
19:00 Beasts of the Southern Wild
21:30 Moonlight
The rest of the films will be presented by student groups of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The Selfish Giant
Α contemporary fable about 13-year-old Arbor and his best friend Swifty. Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten, a local scrapdealer – the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses, while Arbor emulates Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, resembling Kitten more and more. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event which will transform them all.
- Wed May 09 - 2018 19:00
Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater
- Wed May 09 - 2018 21:30
Girlhood
Celine Sciamma
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys’ law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name and dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
- Thu May 10 - 2018 19:00
Amerika Square
America Square is a Square in Athens. It’s the Casablanca of our times. A triptych revealing the opposing forces of today’s humanitarian challenges. Two friends, Billy, a tattoo artist, and Nakos, a «banal» Greek racist, come head to head in America Square in Athens because of the survival journey of Tarek, a Syrian refugee. in Athens because of the survival journey of Tarek, a Syrian refugee.
- Thu May 10 - 2018 21:30
Chevalier
In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he – the best in general– will wear upon his littlest finger the victorious signet ring: the Chevalier.
- Fri May 11 - 2018 22:00
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Behn Zeitlin
Somewhere in drowning Louisiana, a little girl lives with her dying father. Buoyed by her childish optimism, she finds in nature the balance missing from her everyday life – until a fierce storm changes her reality. A lyrical poem about the power of imagination in the struggle for survival, Benh Zeitlin’s feature-length debut is a tour-de-force that led him straight to the arms of the Academy Awards, whereas his young protagonist Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee in the history of the institution at the age of six.
- Sun May 13 - 2018 19:00
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
- Sun May 13 - 2018 21:30
