The 61^st Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will unspool entirely online from 5-15 November, screening a total of 177 films available to local audiences, who can purchase their tickets on the festival’s website. TIFF’s artistic director, Orestis Andreadakis, underlines: “As we wheel out the Festival’s online version, we don’t cease to seek new theoretical tools to interpret not only cinema and the arts, but also the very reality that surrounds us. We set up visual art events in Thessaloniki’s public space; we plan alternative solutions for all our Festival’s upcoming actions. Our motto ‘Cinema, no matter what’ is a means for love and understanding, a way for us to lay down some rules of our own, over the ones imposed by the new coronavirus, a reaction against the reversed world we have immersed in”.

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The 61^st TIFF will open with Philipp Yuryev’s feature debut and Giornate degli Autori winner, The Whaler Boy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Philipp Yuryev
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interview : Małgorzata Szumowska et Mi…
fiche film] by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert (Poland/Germany).

For the fourth consecutive year, the TIFF selection follows an artistic concept. This time, it is “Intimacy, a Modern Tyranny”, inspired by the book “The Fall of Public Man” by American sociologist Richard Sennett. The 12 films selected in the international competition, three of them Greek, are feature debuts or sophomore films and will be setting their sights on the Golden Alexander. The selection includes: After Love [+lire aussi :
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interview : Aleem Khan
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interview : Christos Nikou
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interview : Georgis Grigorakis
fiche film] by Georgis Grigorakis (Greece/France), Gaza mon amour [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser (Palestine/France/Germany/Portugal/Qatar), Ghosts [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Azra Deniz Okyay (Turkey/France/Qatar), Identifying Features [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Fernanda Valadez (Mexico/Spain), Kala azar [+lire aussi :
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interview : Janis Rafa
fiche film] by Janis Rafa (Netherlands/Greece), My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To by Jonathan Cuartas (USA), Night of the Kings [+lire aussi :
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interview : Philippe Lacôte
fiche film] by Philippe Lacôte (France/Côte d'Ivoire/Canada/Senegal), Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period of Time [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lili Horvat
interview : Natasa Stork
fiche film] by Lili Horvát (Hungary), Shorta [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anders Ølholm et Frederik …
fiche film] by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid (Denmark), and Sow the Wind [+lire aussi :
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interview : Danilo Caputo
fiche film] by Danilo Caputo (Italy/France/Greece).

For the second consecutive year, the Meet the Neighbours competition is welcoming ten films from Southeast Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, with three of them hailing from Greece. The films of this edition are 200 Meters [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ameen Nayfeh
fiche film] by Ameen Nayfeh (Palestine/Jordan/Italy/Qatar/Sweden), All the Pretty Little Horses [+lire aussi :
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interview : Michalis Konstantatos
fiche film] by Michalis Konstantatos (Greece/Belgium/Germany), Amercement [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Fokion Bogris (Greece), Daniel ’16 [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Dimitris Koutsiabasakos (Greece), The Death of Cinema and My Father Too [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Dani Rosenberg (France/Israel), Luxor [+lire aussi :
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interview : Zeina Durra
fiche film] by Zeina Durra (UK/Egypt/UAE), Oasis [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ivan Ikic
fiche film] by Ivan Ikić (Serbia/Netherlands/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/France), Should the Wind Drop [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nora Martirosyan
fiche film] by Nora Martirosyan (France/Belgium/Armenia), Spiral [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Cecília Felméri (Hungary), and Unidentified [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Bogdan George Apetri (Romania/Latvia/Czech Republic).

For the Greek Film Festival of the 61^st TIFF, 15 established and first-time filmmakers will be competing in the First Run and Crossing Borders sections. In addition to six titles which are also in the International Competition or in Meet the Neighbors, First Run comprises A Simple Man by Tassos Gerakinis (Greece/France/Serbia), Green Sea by Angeliki Antoniou (Greece/Germany), Gym by Alexandros Voulgaris (The Boy) (Greece), Sarmako – A Tale of the North by Marco Papadopoulos (Greece), Senior Citizen by Marinos Kartikkis (Cyprus), Tailor [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sonia Liza Kenterman
fiche film] by Sonia Liza Kenterman (Greece/Germany/Belgium), and Who Will Be Eaten by Elpiniki Voutsa-Rentzepopoulou (Greece). Meanwhile, the Crossing Borders section includes Sisters Apart [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Daphne Charizani (Germany/Greece) and Vasy’s Odyssey by Vasilis Papatheocharis (Spain).

As for the Balkan Survey, which every year focuses on the most important works from the region, seven feature-length films and five shorts are included: Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus [+lire aussi :
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interview : Dalibor Baric
fiche film] by Dalibor Barić (Croatia), Exile [+lire aussi :
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interview : Visar Morina
fiche film] by Visar Morina (Germany/Belgium/Kosovo), Father [+lire aussi :
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interview : Srdan Golubović
fiche film] by Srdan Golubović (Serbia/France/Germany/Croatia), February [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria/France), Malmkrog [+lire aussi :
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interview : Cristi Puiu
fiche film] by Cristi Puiu (Romania/Serbia/Switzerland/Sweden/Bosnia and Herzegovina/North Macedonia), Mare [+lire aussi :
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interview : Andrea Staka
fiche film] by Andrea Štaka (Switzerland/Croatia), and Uppercase Print [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Radu Jude (Romania).

Finally, three special tributes are being organised: a special focus on science fiction films in the section “Prophecies from another world: Sci-fi and Cli-fi (1950-1990)”, as well as retrospectives about two prominent voices of European cinema, Anja Breien and Vĕra Chytilová (read the news).