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	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Thessaloniki International Film Festival
		Aesthetically, the films wandered from pastoral landscapes and sedate compositions to the avant garde and visual pyrotechnics.
		The film focuses on a single day in the lives of Adolph Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun while they stayed at the Fuhrer's Alpine retreat in Berchtesgaden during the late spring of 1942, a few months before the German defeat at Stalingrad.
		Thessaloniki International Film Festival is held annually in mid-November in Greece's second largest city, located on the Thermaikos Gulf of the northern Aegean Sea.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /31/thessaloniki.html (937 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thessaloniki’s film festival has a long history, stretching back to 1960, in the golden age of Greek film.
		Filmfestivals.com met with Demopoulos, still at the festival’s helm, to discuss the contradictions of being both a national and an international festival, the state of Greek film-making and the danger that there may be political interventions in the festival.
		Thessaloniki deliberately avoided being a so-called “Class A” festival, and you’ve tried to be more of a film-maker’s event.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=27022 (960 words)

	Thessaloniki Film Festival, Part II -- Greek Independents
		Although the festival still has a ways to go in achieving Locarno status, the international competition is restricted to only 1st or 2nd time filmmakers, giving lesser known films and filmmakers a chance to be showcased.
		The film ran away with the Silver Alexander, a cash purse of 7.5 million drachmas (roughly US $27,000) giving support to a talented new director whose simple drama and use of non-actors harkens back to the days of Italian neorealism.
		Although international critics found many of the Greek competition films disappointing and even some of the international films conventional, the international festival is still in its formative years and its purpose of bringing worldwide independent films to Greece is surely successful.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_97Thessaloniki_971202.html (671 words)

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		It's a film where a radical professor ("I think all authority should be undermined") is played by Gianvito himself, whereas his antagonist - the father of a boy in his class, who thinks him a bad influence on his son - is a bull-necked redneck type simmering with violence ("You son of a bitch!").
		It's a film which finally gives up on characters altogether, getting real-life peace activists to play themselves, reciting poems with titles like "War Poem Autobiography" and sharing their stories for the benefit of a mixed-up youngster ("I feel I've learned by listening," he says thoughtfully when the session is over).
		The film is set in the Georgian community of Israel, making it (I suspect) something like a hillbilly movie in the US - characters are 'colourful' and obviously backward, with their superstitions and arranged marriages - yet the eccentric relatives and high-volume family quarrels co-exist uncomfortably with a hard, cutting sensibility.
	leonardo.spidernet.net /Artus/2386/thess01.htm (3873 words)

	FILMMAKER MAGAZINE \| Spring 1998: FESTIVAL ROUNDUP
		Visitors to this year’s Festival – and Europe’s 1997 cultural capital – were invited on set to watch Angelopoulos direct as his small crew moved around the town, from the overcast seaside to the neon-lit ouzeris, keeping watch over the Festival during its ten-day proceedings.
		Thessaloniki is not much of a business festival, although its careful programming and beautiful location draws a larger group of European producers and distributors than one would expect.
		Sundance Film Festival Sundance Film Festival by Noah Cowan
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /spring1998/fests/tff.php (1211 words)

	FILMMAKER MAGAZINE \| Spring 1999: FESTIVAL ROUNDUP
		And the 39th International Thessaloniki Film Festival was enhanced by an immodestly favorable exchange rate, absurdly temperate weather, and of course, food and drink.
		Most of the events at the festival – which drew a record 62,000 admissions this year – are within a few minutes walk of the waterfront.
		Thessaloniki also continued its famous "3x3 series," in which a new film by an emerging director such as Spain’s Ventura Pons or France’s François Ozon is shown with two earlier examples of their work.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /spring1999/fests/tiff.php (715 words)

	Kinoeye \| Albanian film : Fatmir Koci's Tirana Year Zero
		It would be hard, then, for an Albanian film set in the present to avoid the topic of emigration and how the country's inhabitants view the opulence of cities such as Paris, Milan and New York.
		The film, however, caused something of a scandal when it premiered in Albania (on 26 October), and he was widely accused by the media of flening the country's name.
		Hints at reasons for the film's popularity can be gained from a press conference held by the international jury at Thessaloniki before the results were announced (and, indeed, before they had seen all the competition films).
	www.kinoeye.org /01/07/horton07.php (1257 words)

	FIPRESCI - Festival Reports - Thessaloniki 2003
		The Balkan Fund initiative for supporting the development of screenplays in the Balkan countries, launched last year at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, showed the first results at this year's editioon of the festival edition.
		The only condition for the awarded scripts is that when they are made into films they should have their world premiere at the Thessaloniki festival, if they are not selected for Cannes, Berlin or Venice.
		The first competition was announced last year in November right after the end of the festival, and by the deadline, the end of April this year, there were 23 applicants from all the Balkan countries, except the Republic of Macedonia.
	www.fipresci.org /festivals/archive/2003/thessaloniki_2003/thessaloniki_2003_mkostova.htm (555 words)

	Greece's Thessaloniki film award to go to Iran's Kiarostami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Athens, Oct. 18, IRNA -- The Thessaloniki international film festival of Greece is to present its `golden alexander' award to the renown Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami for his life-time achievements in cinema.
		The prize is to be awarded to the Iranian director in a ceremony to be held at the sideline of the festival.
		The 40th thessaloniki international film festival will be held November 12-21 in the town of Thessaloniki which is 520 kms north of Athens.
	www.payvand.com /news/99/oct/1049.html (122 words)

	kamera.co.uk - feature article - Festival Report - 45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival by John Gorick
		The biggest film festival in Greece and the most cosmopolitan film festival in Southeast Europe, Thessaloniki serves up a broad spectrum of world cinema, with the usual mixture of retrospectives, tributes and regional specialisms.
		Featured in the Balkan Survey section of the festival, the film functions as an allegory for Balkan politics and conflict and feels tinged with a degree of xenophobic sentiment but the direction is compelling and the cinematography (by Vladimir Samoilovski) superb.
		Thessaloniki is a Greek film festival and it would be nice to report that there were also some good Greek films on view.
	www.kamera.co.uk /features/45th_thessaloniki_international_film_festival.php (1139 words)

	FILMMAKER MAGAZINE \| Online Features: Thessaloniki Film Festival
		Originally the capital of Macedonia, Thessaloniki soon became a Roman capital — that is, until it was overrun by the Turks and swept into the Byzantine Empire and finally liberated by the Greeks.
		And while such imperial takeovers are now a thing of the past, modern Thessaloniki must ride the tumultuous economic waves of the European Union, as well as weather the instability of the Balkan nations that surround it.
		But if the festival must promote Greek film to the world, its secondary and equally potent agenda is to bring world film to Greece, or at least to the seaside theaters that harbor the festival.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /archives/online_features/thessaloniki_fest04.php (553 words)

	Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Greek Horizons
		And of course, there are films, films, films -- at least 28 per day, screening at various theaters across the mini-metropolis.
		Beyond the films in the International and National Competitions, reputed for their cash prizes of $35,000 and $50,000 respectively, there are a host of other programs catching the eyes of international critics, Greek audiences, and distributors alike.
		Described as "autonomous" and "liberating," likened to the work of poets and painters, and said to be the "most important technological event since the early 60's innovations with lighter camera and sound equipment," everyone on the panel shared a hopeful outlook on the future of digital filmmaking.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_97Thessaloniki_971126.html (645 words)

	GREECE TRAVEL:THESSALONIKI, A GUIDE TO GREECE'S HIPPEST CITY
		Thessaloniki was the second most important city of the Byzantine Empire, next to Constantinople, and is full of beautiful examples of Byzantine art and architecture.
		In the 15th Century Thessaloniki became a haven for Jews exiled from Spain, who became an important part of the culture, until they were sent to the concentration camps during the Nazi occupation, thus ending a period of four hundred years of Jewish influence both socially and economically.
		Thessaloniki is also the birthplace of modern Greek basketball, home of the team Aris and Greece's superstars Nick Gallis (former Seton Hall), Panagiotis Yannakis, Panagiotis Fassoulis (NC State), Yannis Ioandidis and others.
	greecetravel.com /thessaloniki (1131 words)

	Isabelle Huppert: La Vie Pour Jouer - Journal 2004 (2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the difficult role of her film “The Piano Teacher” in 2001, she transformed the dark heroine with incredible intensity and competence, amazing the audience and critics alike and receiving the best actress award at Cannes in 2002”.
		Though she has two films presented at this year's Toronto Film Festival, Isabelle was unable to attend for either of the premieres, except for the regret sent from her to the audience after the screening of I Heart Huckabees.
		The film is scheduled to release in the States on October 1st in select cities.
	mjf.smsu.edu /faculty/wang/ih/journal/2004_2.htm (1759 words)

	Outsider Cinema - Thessaloniki Film Festival
		The Festival has staked its reputation on promoting unconventional, innovative works by mostly young, independent directors (the Festival's international competition section is open to first and second features only).
		Through his dedicated efforts to seek out films that are "marked by their originality, and even risqué," the works of such original and thought-provoking filmmakers as Aleksander Sokurov, Lea Pool, Charles Burnett, Florian Flicker, and Rosa von Praunheim have been introduced to Greek audiences.
		The film cuts back and forth between a group of women released from prison, a young mother who abandons her daughter, and an unmarried woman desperately seeking an abortion.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/festivals/00/11/tiff.html (1574 words)

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		Highlight of each film - esp. during the daytime - is leaving the cinema afterwards : on a sunny day, light scuds the clouds and shimmers on the water ; on a grey day, mist seems to rise up from the sea, shrouding the cranes and hawsers.
		I think festival directors have replaced critics to some extent - the role of the critic used to be to travel and bring back stuff, now they sit in their chairs waiting for the festival directors to bring them the films.
		Festival directors are critics in their own right - they don't write but they choose, and their selections influence public taste : what they choose will be seen, what they don't choose won't be.
	leonardo.spidernet.net /Artus/2386/essays6.htm (13649 words)

	Thessaloniki International Film Festival
		Films must be over 60 minutes and must have been produced during the 18 months before festival.
		If you are the administrator for this festival, you can update this information online.
		This site is produced by the Film Department of the British Council.
	www.britfilms.com /festivals/browse/?id=D5FD9B440ed832751FtNo2651E1E (160 words)

	village voice > film > The 42nd Thessaloniki Film Festival by Mark Peranson
		The 42nd Thessaloniki Film Festival strove for topicality with a workshop on digital cinema and a competition entry on anthrax (the U.K.'s blasé Gas Attack).
		The Golden Alexander, the richest festival prize in Christendom (12.5 million drachmas; next year, 36,700 euros), was awarded by the John Boorman-led jury to Fatmir Koçi's Tirana Year Zero, a work of energetic Albanian nationalism that's more Kusturica than Rossellini.
		Especially the final, a rhyming re-creation of the initial image from de Oliveira's debut, in which a flickering lighthouse becomes a metaphor for his art, one capable of illuminating the souls of a Europe darkened in the 20th century.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0148,peranson,30261,20.html (639 words)

	Press conference at 41st International Thessaloniki Film Festival
		This text was originally published at the website of the Thessaloniki Film Festival at http://www.filmfestival.gr/2000/press/interviews4_uk.html, but disappeared a year afterwards.
		In the actor's press conference in the framework of the 41st Thessaloniki Film Festival, he described his experiences from the film "Ulysses' Gaze", which took him to Serajevo, Vukovar and other cities torn by war.
		He noted how he considered it a great privilege to have experienced the reality of war: "it was sort of a divine command that urged me to see how I could narrate the story of war and therefore help in any way I can but especially the children", he said characteristically.
	www.miscellanea.de /Harvey_Keitel/Archive/PressThessFF.htm (553 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| International film jury looks at young directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		THESSALONIKI - It is all starting to come together here as the Thessaloniki International Film Festival enters its second half and the bitter cold of the weekend gives way to the welcoming November sun.
		Their role is an educational one, as they bring films that rarely see domestic distribution to audiences and organize events and activities to help the public understand art cinema better.
		On the other hand, the festival acts as a mediator, boosting art-house filmmakers so that they may one day insinuate themselves, and their ideas and style, onto the international arena of cinema.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_1663744_25/11/2004_49924 (648 words)

	Festival Details: Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thessaloniki seems to be doing just fine without many Yanks in attendance -- it's just a shame more Americans don't take advantage of this festival (and this vibrant Greek city) -- it could provide the perfect festival stop during the lull between AFM and Sundance.
		Greece's biggest film event, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival took place in the northern port city of Thessaloniki from November 21-30.
		Tribeca Film Festival executive director Peter Scarlet also traveled to Greece for the fest, as well as actress Tamila Koulieva.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/festivals/thessaloniki_international_film_festival.html (289 words)

	Travel blog :: Virtual Countries Travel
		More than 150 films are screened in the various cinemas across the city and films are chosen and honored according to several different categories.
		The festival of film in Thessaloniki provides the perfect atmosphere wherein newcomers to the industry can meet veteran filmmakers and discuss ideas and projects.
		The festival takes place at the Olympion Cinema Complex, which has two cinema theatres and is the official home of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
	www.virtual-countries-travel.com /blog (755 words)

	Film festival, latin american film festival, underground film festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 10th Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival invites you to a week a fun-filled events for the family, seminars and discussion groups for the film...
		Films screened prior to the festival in the Denver metro area are not eligible.
		Film summaries and screening times are provided, along with details of sponsers, industry events and hotels in...
	www.integralphotography.com /film-festival.html (915 words)

	Today's Home News
		The film "Bitter Dream" by 32-year-old Iranian director Mohsen Amiryousefi on Sunday won the top prize for best full-length film in the international competition of the 45th Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Gold Alexander, along with a cash prize of 37,000 euros.
		The award ceremony for the international competition of the film festival took place on Sunday at 20:30 in Thessaloniki's Olympion cinema and was followed by the screening (out of competition) of the film "House of Flying Daggers" by renowned Chinese director Zang Yimou.
		Parallel awards were given by the FIPRESCI jury to the film 'Lu Mao Tze' (The Green Hat) by Chinese director Liu Fendou in the international competition and the film 'Delivery' by Nikos Panayotopoulos of Greece in the Greek Films 2004 competition.
	www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=2347929&service=8 (382 words)

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	www.brightlightsfilm.com /filmfestivals.html (1338 words)

	Ophelia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		note: all films* begin at 3:45 unless otherwise noted and will be followed by an open discussion.
		This beautifully filmed, sweet film is directed by Colombian-born Patricia Cardoso, and highlights the superb talent of 17-year-old Ferrera in the role of Ana.
		This film was included in the 31st New Directors/New Films 2002 series presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Department of Film and Media of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
	free.hostdepartment.com /o/opheliafilmfest/films/flash.html (850 words)

	Costas Ferris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moved to Greece in 1957 where he studied film and worked as assistant director in about sixty Greek and foreign productions.
		In 1961 he made his first short-length film and in 1965 his first feature.
		Returned to Greece in 1973, directed for television (documentaries, musicals, serials, etc.) and was film critic for the newspaper "Mesimvrini" for two years.
	www.culture.gr /2/22/222/22200/directors/e222d10.html (106 words)

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