Renowned Greek festival programmer Dimitri Eipides, the man who established the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 1999 and directed it ever since until 2016, is given a carte blanche at the 19^th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival to select
10 documentaries that will be screened in this year's event.

The festival thus honours a special person that has been devoted to cinema for many decades; “a godfather of interesting cinema”, as the director Jim Jarmusch put it during his attendance at the 54^th TIFF. 

Dimitri Eipides selected 10 documentaries of recent production (2005-2013) that have been presented in previous festival editions. These films touch upon various aspects of human reality, resembling a huge puzzle that brings together images of our world, then and now.

The films:

Blockade, Sergei Loznitsa, Russia, 2005, 52’

Kinbaku - Art of Bondage, Jouni Hokkanen, Finland, 2009, 29’

Music Partisans, Miroslaw Dembinski, Poland, 2007, 53’

My Sweet Canary, Roy Sher, Israel-France-Greece, 2011, 89’

Steam of Life, Mika Hotakainen & Joonas Berghall, Finland-Sweden, 2010, 84’

The Imposter, Bart Layton, UK-Spain-USA, 2011, 91’

The Last Days of Shishmaref, Jan Louter, Netherlands, 2008, 93’

The Mother, Antoine Cattin & Pavel Kostomarov, Switzerland-France-Russia, 2007, 80’

The World According To Ion B., Alexander Nanau, Romania, 2009, 61’

Where Is My Son?, Chaimin Ahn, South Korea, 2013, 52’

The 19^th TDF is financed by the European Union - European Regional Development Fund under the ROP of Central Macedonia 2014-2020.