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The Swedish band The Concretes will perform on Wednesday March 12 at Warehouse C during the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The seven-member band, which will be coming to Greece for the first time, is part of the lively music community of Stockholm and will present songs from their albums Hey Trouble (2007) and The Concretes (2006), as well as older songs. The Concretes, playing their sun-drenched pop melodies will be the perfect spring calling during this year's Documentary Festival, ...
The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century presents, in conjunction with Big Star Promotion, Yannis Angelakas and Nikos Veliotis in a unique performance. When Will We Get Here is the title given to Yannis Angelakas and Nikos Veliotis' return. In their new album, the result of a collaboration between the artists that gave us Breath of Wolves, the power of Yannis Angelakas' lyrics and expression comes together once again with Nikos Veliotis' cello and his u...
Kyran Joughin, UK journalist, who coordinated the discussion, Maria Leonida, director of the documentary My First Time, Rebeccah Rush, producer of the film Indestructible and Suzanne Chisholm, director of the film Saving Luna participated in "Just Talking", which took place in the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel on Wednesday, March 12. Rebeccah Rush, besides being the producer of Indestructible, is also the sister of the film's director and protagonist Ben Byer , explained t...
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, important figures in the world of American independent documentary film making, gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's Green Room. They said that they began working together at a time when the genre was not well known, wishing to contribute to the development of the genre. The press conference was introduced by Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He said: "I am happy that we have such...
Repression, the violation of human rights and systematic violence, that is, all those things which are still happening 70 years after the beginning of the Holocaust and 40 years after May of '68, all these subjects were discussed during the "Faces of Fascism" conference, which took place Thursday, March 13 at the John Cassavetes theater, Warehouse 1 at the port, as part of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The conference was opened by Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director ...
A press conference took place on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's "Green Room", in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The participants were Simon Brook, director of the film Generation 68, Tiffany Burns, director of the film Mr. Big, Parvez Sharma, director of the film A Jihad for love and Bon-Hwak Koo, director of the film To find tiger Kim. Tiffany Burns, speaking about her film Mr. Big - which is about a method invented and perfected by the Royal ...
The journalist Sotiris Danezis gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13, at the Olympion's "Green Room", as part of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. He spoke about the goals of the series "War Zone" and the difficulties in making a documentary. Sotirs Danezis was welcomed by Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. "We have an important Greek journalist with us, whose work influences a wide audience. Learnin...
The directors Dimitris Vernikos (The Mirror and the Knife), Alida Dimitriou (Birds in the Mire), Manolis Dimellas (Live and let live) and Maria Leonida (My First Time), gave a press conference on Thursday, March 13 at the Olympion's Green Room. Maria Leonida's film is about the time of her first pregnancy and the conflicting emotions a woman feels when she enters this process. "It is a clearly personal subject. I gave my personal experience, but I've been told that many women identify with ...
Kyran Joughin, UK journalist, who coordinated the discussion, Maria Leonida, director of the documentary My First Time, Rebeccah Rush, producer of the film Indestructible and Suzanne Chisholm, director of the film Saving Luna participated in "Just Talking", which took place in the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel on Wednesday, March 12. Rebeccah Rush, besides being the producer of Indestructible, is also the sister of the film's director and protagonist Ben Byer , explained t...
The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honored Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofski, outstanding figures in the contemporary American independent documentary field, at a special event which took place on the evening of Wednesday, March 12 at the Olympion's Pavlos Zannas theater. The two directors were particularly happy to receive the award from the Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Dimitri Eipides, and they warmly thanked him for the honor. "Bruce Sinofsky and I ha...
On Tuesday, March 11, at the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace hotel, the directors Necati Sonmez (To make an example of), Krzysztof Kopczynnski (Stone Silence), Buthina Canaan Khoury (Maria's Grotto), Mary-Ellen Davis (Territories), Sarah Singh (The sky below), Sibel Bilgin & Floor Kooij (Burhan Uygur: Passion of an artist), Pola Rapaport (Hair let the sun shine in), Sotiris Danezis, honoree of the Festival, and the distributor Sirkka Moeller from the German company Deckert, participated...
The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honored one of the most important directors of the new generation of Finnish documentary makers, Arto Halonen. The special event took place on the evening of Tuesday, March 11, in the Olympion's Pavlos Zannas theater. Introducing the Guest of Honor, the Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Dimitris Eipides said: "Each year, it is the tradition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to honor the work of a distinguished documentary ma...
On Wednesday, March 12, at the Olympion's Green Room, a press conference was by Arto Halonen, the Finnish director and Guest of Honor of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century. The artist was welcomed by the Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Dimitri Eipides, who referred to him as one of the most important European documentary makers working today. Arto Halonen, mainly distinguished as a documentary maker, has also written and dire...
"Guerilla Filmmaking" was the title of the workshop presented by the documentary filmmaker and journalist Sotirs Danezis in the morning of Wednesday, March 12, at the John Cassavetes theater in Warehouse 1 at the port, as part of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. During the workshop, the journalist explained to the public what it means to make documentaries in war zones, what difficulties the director faces, and what choices he has to make. He also spoke about techniques that...
On the second day of Just Talking, Monday, March 10 at the Excelsior room of Electra Palace hotel, the invited discussion group member were: Jeffrey Morgan, director of Lillie and Leander: A legacy of violence, Yung Chang, director of the documentary Up the Yangtze, Samantha Zarzosa, producer of the film City of cranes, Lucian Muntean and Natasa Stankovic directors of the film Journey of a red fridge, Peter Entell, director of Shake the devil off and Lydia Karra, director of the film My Life and...
On Tuesday, March 11, in the Olympion's "Green Room", a press conference was held in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The participants were Krzysztof Kopczynski, director of the film Stone silence, Pola Rapaport, director of the film Hair, let the sun shine in, Sylvain Biegeleisen, director of the film Τhe last card and Hilary Helstein, director of the film As seen through these eyes. Krzysztof Kopczynski, speaking about his documentary Stone Silence - whic...
A press conference was given on Tuesday, March 11 at the Olympion's Green Room, by the directors of the documentaries To make an example of, Necati Sonmez, Maria's Grotto, Buthina Canaan Khoury and Territories, Mary Elen Davis. To make an example of, which is included in the Human Rights section of the Documentary Festival, deals with the subject of the death penalty in Turkey. "The main purpose of the documentary is to communicate the last moments of the condemned, just before the executio...
All the speakers of the conference "Approaching Nature: Natural Farming and Reforestation", stressed the personal responsibility everyone has to fight to change the world. The conference took place on Tuesday, March 11, in Warehouse 1, at the port, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opened the conference. He noted: "I am happy that once again we have the opportunity to organize a...
The first "Just Talking" of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival took place on Sunday, March 9 in the Excelsior room of the Electra Palace Hotel. The participants were the directors Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson and Ari Alexander Ergis Magnusson, (At the edge of the world), Hillary Helstein (As seen through these eyes), Chris Swider (Children in exile), Olaf Koelewijn (Farmer's wisdom) and the producer Sebastian Runschke (The Whispering of the trees). B. Bjorgulfsson and A. Magnu...
On Monday, March 10 a press conference took place in the “Green Room” of the Olympion, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Those participating were Floor Kooij and Sibel Bilgin, directors of the documentary Burhan Uygur Passion of an artist, Sarah Singh, director of The sky below and Samantha Zarzosa producer of the documentary City of Cranes. Sibel Bilgin, director of Burhan Uygur Passion of an artist, explained that she knew the innovative artist Burhan Uygur p...
A press conference was given on Monday, March 10 at noon, in the Olympion's Green Room, by Jeffrey Morgan, director of Lillie & Leander: A legacy of violence, Peter Entell, director of Shake the devil off, and Chris Swider, director of Children in exile. The film Lillie & Leander: Α Legacy of violence is about the case of a black man who was judged to be guilty of the murder of a white woman in Florida, at the beginning of the 20th century. However, through this case, the general issu...
The two exhibitions hosted by the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century take us to the hottest fronts on the planet, where hope rises out of the ashes of war. These exhibits opened on Saturday, March 8 at the Thessaloniki Photography Museum, in the presence of the Ambassador of Canada, Doctor Renata E. Wielgosz, the Deputy Mayor for Culture and Youth for the Municipality of Thessaloniki Vassilis Gakis, the Director of the Museum of Photography Vangelis Ioakimidis, a...
The Press Conference cycle of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival began on Sunday, March 9, at the Green Room of the Olympion, with the director Manos Papadakis, who directed A Hole in the Water. The film deals with the subject of the construction of the Thessaloniki underwater tunnel. As the director noted, the citizens of Thessaloniki are not informed enough on the subject of the underwater tunnel, and this is why he wants to cover the gap through his documentary. Speaking about the law...
On Sunday, March 9 at noon, in the Olympion’s Green Room, a press conference was given by the directors of the documentaries Gugara, Andrej Dybczak and Jacek Naglowski, and Farmer’s Wisdom, Olaf Koelewijn, in the context of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Gugara, presented in the Human Rights section, describes the strange world of a small Siberian community in decline, which is forced to abandon its traditional way of life. The directors A. Dybczak and J. Naglowski express...
"Music interests me more as a social phenomenon and less as an artistic achievement", the journalist Leonidas Antonompoulos stated during the first workshop of the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century. He is known from the State television series "Musicians of the World". The workshop was called "Music in the Documentary", and it took place on March 9, in Warehouse 1 at the port. Coordinator was the journalist and film critic Giorgos K...
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