-TIFF PRESS RELEASE-52nd TIFF: Agora Awards (11/12/2011) AGORA AWARDS The Agora/Market section of the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival concluded on Friday, November 11 at Warehouse C, with the Works in Progress and Crossroads 7th Co-Production Forum awards ceremony. The ceremony took place in a festive atmosphere in the presence of TIFF director Dimitris Eipides. Mr. Eipides warmly
TIFF PRESS RELEASE-52nd TIFF: Agora Awards (11/12/2011) AGORA AWARDS The Agora/Market section of the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival concluded on Friday, November 11 at Warehouse C, with the Works in Progress and Crossroads 7th Co-Production Forum awards ceremony. The ceremony took place in a festive atmosphere in the presence of TIFF director Dimitris Eipides. Mr. Eipides warmly thanke
-TIFF PRESS RELEASE-52nd TIFF: Agora Awards (11/12/2011) AGORA AWARDS The Agora/Market section of the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival concluded on Friday, November 11 at Warehouse C, with the Works in Progress and Crossroads 7th Co-Production Forum awards ceremony. The ceremony took place in a festive atmosphere in the presence of TIFF director Dimitris Eipides. Mr. Eipides warmly thank
-TIFF PRESS RELEASE- 52nd TIFF: Agora Awards (11/12/2011) AGORA AWARDS The Agora/Market section of the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival concluded on Friday, November 11 at Warehouse C, with the Works in Progress and Crossroads 7th Co-Production Forum awards ceremony. The ceremony took place in a festive atmosphere in the presence of TIFF director Dimitris Eipides.
The Agora Market Awards TIFF 2011 -TIFF PRESS RELEASE- 52nd TIFF: Agora Awards (11/12/2011)AGORA AWARDS The Agora/Market section of the 52nd edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival concluded on Friday, November 11 at Warehouse C, with the Works in Progress and Crossroads 7th Co-Production Forum awards ceremony. The ceremony took place in a festive atmosphere in the presence of TIFF director Dimitris Eipides. Mr. Eipides warmly thanked all Agora participants. Taking the floo...
SARA DRIVER PRESS CONFERENCE TIFF PRESS RELEASEAmerican director, scriptwriter and producer Sara Driver gave a press conference on Thursday, November 10, at Warehouse C, in the framework of the Thessaloniki 52nd International Film Festival. Present at the panel was TIFF director Dimitris Eipides. The TIFF is hosting a tribute to the work of Sara Driver, who is the Jim Jarmusch’s partner in both filmmaking and life
TIFF PRESS RELEASE!
52nd TIFF: Crossroads opening (11/9/2011)
CROSSROADS OPENING
The launch of the 7th Crossroads Co-Production Forum, which is part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Agora / Market section, took place on Wednesday, November 9, at the Electra Palace hotel.
“This is an important day for both you and the Festival”, said TIFF director Dimitris Eipides in his short welcoming speech, addressing the Forum’s participants. The Festival gives great emp...
Opening film at 52nd TIFF, The Descendants (2011) by Alexander Payne. TIFF PRESS RELEASE52nd TIFF: Opening ceremony (11/5/2011)52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 4-13 November 2011 OPENING CEREMONYA modest ceremony raised the curtain on the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Friday, November 4th, 2011, at a packed Olympion theater. The event was accompanied by the music of the four-member Basement band. In his opening speech, TIFF director Dimitris Eipides did not fail ...
Alexander Payne at TIFF 2011 TIFF PRESS RELEASE!52nd TIFF: Alexander Payne Press Conference (11/5/2011)ALEXANDER PAYNE PRESS CONFERENCE On Saturday, November 5th, a Press Conference was given by the Greek-American director Alexander Payne during the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, at Warehouse C. Present were the Festival’s Director, Dimitri Eipides and Mr. Payne’s director of photography Phedon Papamichael, also a Greek-American. Alexander Payne’s new film The Descendants ...
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52nd THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL will run November 4 - 13, 2011
With less than a week to go before the start of the event, we have the pleasure to contact you with the latest news from this year's 52ND Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, November 4th.
A complete list of this year's line-up can be found at the end of this pres...
Cultural Resistance
In a successful and festive atmosphere, Patras International Film Festival & Culture - "13th International Panorama" ended on Saturday, 8th of October, organized by the non-profit organization "International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Creators" in collaboration with the Editorial Committee of the online magazine «Cineek magazine-online magazine of Alternative Culture», www.cineek.gr. The festival started on 1st of October 2010 and ...
– Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) has announced the 2011 line-up of films for its 5th annual Festival, which runs June 9-12 at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 in West Hollywood. Seven feature films, five documentaries and nine shorts, including three world premieres, ten US premieres and eight LA premieres will be presented during the 4-day Festival. The Festival has also added an industry panel “Crossing Borders: Foreign Films in Hollywood” to the schedule this year."This year's films rep...
MY SWEET CANARY (Israel, Turkey, Greece, 2011) opened the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival to a full enthusiastic audience and standing ovations. Director Roy Sher and two singers featured in the film, Mehtap Demir and Martha D. Lewis, attended a Q and A after both screenings of the film.
In response to a question from the audience of how his fascination with Roza began, Roy explains: ‘My first interaction with Roza was through hearing her and her Jewish...
MY SWEET CANARY (Israel, France, Greece, 2011) by director Roy Sher opened the 13th Thessaloniki Film Festival at the Olympian theater to a sold out audience on March 11th, 2011 and screened again on March 15th. The energy and excitement of the audience began with the presentation of the film by the director and sustained right to the end.
Filmed in Turkey, Greece, Israel and England, MY SWEET CANARY is a purely captivating story about history, love, art, passion and vibrant radian...
MY SWEET CANARY (Israel, Turkey, Greece, 2011) opened the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival to a full enthusiastic audience and standing ovations. Director Roy Sher and two singers featured in the film, Mehtap Demir and Martha D. Lewis, attended a Q and A after both screenings of the film.
In response to a question from the audience of how his fascination with Roza began, Roy explains: ‘My first interaction with Roza was through hearing her and her Jewish...
MY SWEET CANARY (Israel, France, Greece, 2011) by director Roy Sher opened the 13th Thessaloniki Film Festival at the Olympian theater to a sold out audience on March 11th, 2011 and screened again on March 15th. The energy and excitement of the audience began with the presentation of the film by the director and sustained right to the end.
Filmed in Turkey, Greece, Israel and England, MY SWEET CANARY is a purely captivating story about history, love, art, passion and vibran...
film still from MY SWEET CANARY (2011), opening film for 13th TDF
13th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Images of the 21st Century
March 11 – 20, 2011
The 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 220 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program (previously announced on February 25).
OPENING FILM
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On March 15, 2011, Thessaloniki performed a real-time digital broadcast of the doc film MY SWEET CANARY.
13 TDF PRESS RELEASE!
The Festival’s innovative project «real-time documentary broadcast through live streaming” enjoyed great success for a second day in the evening of Tuesday, March 15, with the screening of Roy Sher’s My Sweet Canary at a packed Olympion theater.
The project is a new initiative by the TDF in collaboration with...
Director Roy Sher presents his film, MY SWEET CANARY (2011) to a packed cinema in Thessaloniki, Greece on March 15, 2011.
Director Roy Sher presents his film, MY SWEET CANARY (2011) to a packed cinema in Thessaloniki, Greece on March 15, 2011.
Director: Nikos Labot.
A tale of rage, hate, love and passion. Of guilt and revenge.
A middle-aged father lives with his daughter, whom he treasures more than everything else in the world. He has one aim in life: to protect her, whatever the cost, and anyone who dares approach her will have him to deal with. When a young tramp wandering the area with his dog dares just that and the girl and the youth fall in love, it means war…
Athens, Jan. 17, 2011 PRESS RELEASE – GREEK FILMS PARTICIPATING IN THE BERLINAND ROTTERDAM IFFAmnesty, the first feature by Bujar Alimani,an Albanian, Greek and French co-production, will hold its world premiere in the Forum of the 2011 Berlin IFF. The announcement follows the second one in a period of exceptional news for local filmmaking, as Greek production Wasted Youth by Argiris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel will screen in the competition section of the 2011 Rotterdam IFF...
Film still from 'Time to Die' 51st TIFF: Dorota Kedzierzawska honorary ceremony (12/10/2010)DOROTA KEDZIERZAWSKA – HONORARY CEREMONY Polish director Dorota Kedzierzawska was awarded the Golden Alexander for the entire body of her wok at a special honorary ceremony held on Thursday, December 9th at Olympion Theater, in the presence of the Festival Director, Mr. Dimitris Eipides, within the framework of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival. “The Festival, this feast of independe...
The film 'Black Swan' closed the night. 51st TIFF: Closing ceremony (12/12/2010)The closing ceremony of the 51st Thessaloniki International Film FestivalThe curtains came down on the 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival on Saturday, December 11th, with a closing ceremony that took place at Olympion Theater. Snapshots, faces and clips of the city during this 10-day cinematic feast were depicted in the short film of Emmanouil Papadopoulos entitled Stereosis, which welcomed the audience ...
Three of the jury members on stage to present awards.
The International Jury of the 51st Thessaloniki Film Festival comprised of:
Michel Demopoulos, Jury President, Film critic (Greece)
Mohamed Al-Daradji, Director (Iraq)
Scandar Copti, Director (Palestine)
Behrooz Hashemian, Producer (Iran/USA) and
Martin Schweighofer, Managing Director of the Austrian Film Commission (Austria)