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Refugee Cookout Steals the Show at 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Four Syrian and four Iraqi refugees held a cookout with traditional dishes for visitors and other refugees attending the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on Friday. During the event, called “Food Uniting People #WithRefugees,” the four men from the refugee camps of...

64 Greek Documentaries in 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

64 Greek documentaries will participate in the 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival that will be held from March 3 to March 12. A total of 110 proposals were submitted to the committee. Three documentaries will participate in the international competition to be...

Film-Documentary 'Hail Arcadia' Premieres in Athens and Thessaloniki Oct. 15

The film-documentary "Hail Arcadia"  will be coming to Athens and Thessaloniki theatres on October 15th. "Hail Arcadia" previously had a successful premiere at the 18th Annual Thessaloniki Documentary Festival where it was awarded by FIPRESCI for best film. Director Filippos Koutsaftis brings the viewer...

Greek-French Director Costa-Gavras: I Was Impressed by Avgeropoulos' Documentary 'Agora' [Video]

Internationally acclaimed Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras expressed his admiration for Yorgos Avgeropoulos' awarded documentary "Agora: From Democracy to the Market. In an interview with the Greek VIMAgazino, the director of academy who was awarded for "Z," when asked about...

Greek-American Rebel Documentary Presented in Thessaloniki

Greek director Costas Vakkas will present a different, radical version of Greek migrants’ history in the US through his documentary “Dan Georgakas: A Diaspora Rebel,” which will be screened at the 17th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. In an interview, Greek-American poet, writer,...

Greek Journalist's Junta Story Inspires Documentary

As a combative journalist of Greek extraction, Elias Demetracopoulos dedicated the best part of his life to struggle against the regime of the Greek military junta, and his story has now been told in the film, “Time for Heroes”, which is slated...

'Greektown, New England': Film For Americans Of Greek Descent Presented At TDF

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) presents the film 'Greektown, New England' on the 9th and 10th of March, that constitutes a journey through the Greek-American communities of New England. The film portrays a group of Americans of Greek descent, first,...

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) Opens March 9th

The TDF is a leading European Documentary Festival, carried out every March in Thessaloniki since its inception in 1999 under the artistic direction of Dimitri Eipides. Its main thematic sections are: Recordings of Memory, Portraits-Human Journeys, Stories to Tell,...