OPENING CEREMONY The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century enters its second decade as of Friday, March 13, with the Opening Ceremony of the 11th edition at the Olympion Theatre. Stavros Kalafatis, Minister of Macedonia-Thrace, launched the Documentary Festival, and the screening of Chao Gan’s The Red Race followed. Despina Mouzaki, Director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, welcomed the audienc...

CLOSING CEREMONY The 49th TIFF's journey which started 10 days ago reached its final destination on Sunday, November 23rd with the closing ceremony at the Olympion hall. Despina Mouzaki, director of TIFF thanked all the personnel and the volunteers of TIFF, the press, the critics, the jury and all the organizations that helped towards a successful 49th TIFF. She also thanked the film makers by saying: 'Thank you for trusting us with your films and for being present to 49t...

The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century began its journey on the night of Friday, March 7, in the packed Olympion Theater. The ceremony focused on the fact that this year's edition is an anniversary, and was attended by political and academic representatives, as well as important cultural and intellectual personalities.           The ceremony was opened by the Director of the Thessaloniki International Festival, Ms...

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century began its journey in March 1999, at the dawn of the new millennium and in the middle of profound changes in the information community as well as the international social arena. On the one hand, the rapid development of digital technology, with all this entails for artistic expression and communication - information, and on the other hand decisive multidimensional phenomena such as globalization, which marked the beginning of the ...