The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival kicks off its 25th edition Thursday at a time when the nonfiction genre has arguably reached unprecedented heights. This year’s festival, which takes place Mar…
“It’s no coincidence,” says Thessaloniki festival director Orestis Andreadakis, of the dramatic ascent of documentary films at world cinema’s most prestigious fests. “Documentary, the last 10 years, 20 years, it’s a different genre. And I think it’s much more important than fiction films.
The festival opens with the world premiere of “La Singla,” by Spanish filmmaker Paloma Zapata, which tells the story of the groundbreaking flamenco dancer Antonia Singla, who was born deaf and revolutionized the world of flamenco, before disappearing from the stage before her thirtieth birthday. It concludes with the international premiere of Johan Kramer’s “My Pet and Me,” a light-hearted and heart-warming exploration of the loving bonds between humans and their pets.
The festival will also honor the memory of the city’s once-thriving Jewish community with the homage “Adio Kerida: From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz – 80 Years,” which will take place eight decades after the first train departed the city bound for Nazi concentration camps.
Among the selections from the international competition celebrating their world premieres is “The Last Seagull,” from veteran docmaker Tonislav Hristov, whose portrait of a male escort on Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach offers a multilayered allegory on life in the Balkans and the modern world.
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