19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
3-12 March, 2017
19th TDF FILM LINE-UP, JURIES & SIDEBAR EVENTS
3-12 March, 2017
19th TDF FILM LINE-UP, JURIES & SIDEBAR EVENTS
The 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, presents approximately 213 films (shorts and features) by directors from all over the world, as well as a full parallel events program.
FILM PREMIERES
The 19th TDF presents 1 world, 14 international, 4 European and 183 Greek premieres:
World Premieres:
Upon The Shadow, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh, Tunisia, 2017, 80’ – Human Rights
International Premieres:
78/52, Alexandre O. Philippe, USA, 2017, 91’ - Cinema
Buba & Sharon, Chiel Aldershoff, The Netherlands, 2016, 16’ – Docs for Kids
Deltas, Back To Shores, Charlie Petersmann, Switzerland, 2016, 77’ – International Competition
Foreign Local, Moriya Ben Avot, Israel, 2016, 12’ - Kaleidoscope
Jesser and the Sugarcane, Godelieve Eijsink, The Netherlands, 2016, 15’ – Docs for Kids
Koropa, Laura Henno, France, 2016, 19’ – Human Rights
Spotlight on Merna, Mirjam Marks, The Netherlands, 2016, 15’ – Docs for Kids
Stories Our Cinema (Did) Not Tell, Fernanda Pessoa, Brazil, 2017, 80’ – International Competition
The Social, Gilles Perret, France, 2016, 84’ - Kaleidoscope
Transitioning: Transgender Children, Roser Oliver I Olivella & Lluis Montserrat I Satorre, Spain, 2016, 52’ – International Competition
Vergot, Cecilia Bozza Wolf, Italy, 2016, 60’ - Kaleidoscope
Woman on Fire, Julie Sokolow, USA, 2016, 84’ – Minorities tribute
Zaatari Djinn, Catherine Van Campen, The Netherlands, 2016, 90’ – Human Rights
Zooland, Pary El-Qalqili, Germany, 2016, 33’ - Kaleidoscope
European Premieres:
Death By A Thousand Cuts, Juan Mejia Botero & Jake Kheel, USA-Dominican Republic, 2016, 73’ - Habitat
It's Not yet Dark, Frankie Fenton, Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, 2017, 81’ –International Competition
Rumble, the Indians Who Rocked the World, Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana, Canada, 2017, 90’ – International Competition
To The Moon and Back, Susan Morgan Cooper, Russia-USA, 2016, 85’ – Kaleidoscope
INTERNATIONAL JURY
This year for the first time the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival will feature an International Competition section with 12 films of over 50’ will compete for the Golden Alexander and the Special Jury Award. The Golden Alexander award is accompanied by a €5,000 cash prize, sponsored by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Τhe Special Jury Award is accompanied by a €2.000 cash prize, sponsored by ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.
The five-member International Jury called to judge the films of the International Competition section is composed of:
Paul Pauwels, director of the European Documentary Network (EDN), Belgium - Jury President
Dina Iordanova, professor of film studies, Bulgaria
Laurent Rigoulet, journalist, France
Talal Derki, film director, Syria
Marianna Economou, film director, Greece
FIPRESCI JURY
An international FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) jury will hand out one award to a film of the International Competition section.
The three-member FIPRESCI Jury is composed of:
Roberto Tirapelle, Italy, President
Bettina Hirsch, Germany
Christos Skyllakos, Greece
OPENING FILM
The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America
by Paul Dugdale, UK, 2016
The 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival opening film (Friday March 3rd, Olympion theatre) celebrates rock & roll. Paul Dugdale’s euphoric documentary The Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America focuses on the legendary band’s tour in Latin America, while they visit Cuba for the first time and rock an entire continent.
SIDEBAR EVENTS
EXHIBITION “JOHN BERGER: A RADICAL HUMANIST”
March 4 – April 13, 2017, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Warehouse B1, Port) // Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-18:00 // Entrance: 3 euro, 1,50 euro reduced, 1,00 euro for groups & free access to certain individuals and groups with valid ID
Thirty drawings and paintings by John Berger complement the tribute on his work held by the 19th TDF. These works are presented for the first time only two months after his passing. Most of them were lent to the Festival exclusively for this exhibition by John Berger’s son, Yves, while others are part of private collections. The exhibition will also include screenings of films, video extracts and TV shows about Berger, as well as copies of Berger’s books. The event is organized by the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki – State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Curation: Orestis Andreadakis, Syrago Tsiara).
*Official Opening: 8 March, 19:30 – A round-table discussion about Berger’s work will take place with the participation of Tom Overton (writer, curator and researcher, British Library) and Antonis Kotidis (Professor, Department of the History of Art, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
EXHIBITION “WITHOUT A KNIFE AND FORK”
March 3 – August 30, 2017, Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki (Warehouse A, Port)
// Opening Hours: 10.00 – 20.00 // Entrance: 2 euros
On the occasion of the festival’s new section “Food vs. Food”, an exhibition dedicated to the role of food in the Greek cinema will take place at the Cinema Museum of Thessaloniki. The exhibition focuses on food as highlighted in films like A Touch of Spice by Tassos Boulmetis (2003), Htypokardia sto Thranio by Alekos Sakellarios (1963) and The Fear by Kostas Manousakis (1966), inter alia. The event is organized by the TDF and the Museology Laboratory of the University of the Aegean (curation: Anastasia Chourmouziadi, Assistant Professor of Museology, University of the Aegean).
CARTOON EXHIBITION: “MICHAEL KOUNTOURIS, MADE IN EUROPE: DESCRIBING THE REFUGEE CRISIS WITHOUT WORDS”
March 4 – 19, 2017, MOB Cafe (Ionos Dragoumi & 2 Papadopoulou str.) // Opening hours: 10:00 - 02:00 (Sundays 11:00 - 02:00) // Opening: March 4, 19:00
The exhibition presents works by the Greek cartoonist Michael Kountouris, all of them generated by the refugee crisis, xenophobic Europe and societies of closed borders and wars. The artist expresses the pain and desperation of the people who were forced to abandon their home and family, in search of a new life. All these topics are highlighted without words, but through the power of the universal language of image and symbolism. The exhibition is organized by the Greek street magazine “Schedia” and MOB Cafe, with the support of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
MOVING SILENCE EVENT
March 10 – 11, 2017, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (Warehouse B1, Port) // Entrance: free with voluntary contribution // info & screenings: www.cact.gr
Moving Silence, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary silent film, presents an international program of short films accompanied by live music by musicians based in Thessaloniki, as well as a GIF exhibition. The event is organized by Moving Silence, the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki – State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, with the support of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (program curators: Matthias Fritsch, Co-Founder & Co-Director Moving Silence and Eirini Papakonstantinou, Music Program Curation and coordination, Art Historian, SMCA Curator).
“HOME NEW HOME” PROJECT: REFUGEES AND CITIZENS FROM 6 WELCOMING COUNTRIES FILM THE REFUGEE CRISIS
March 10, 12:00, Pavlos Zannas theatre (free entrance)
Cultural Institutions, Universities and NGOs from Germany, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, participated in an intercultural film project titled “Home New Home”, in which Syrian refugees and citizens from six welcoming countries took part in documentary filmmaking workshops in Athens, Lesvos, Izmir, Tyr, Ramallah and Amman. The project is supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the main partners are StoryDoc (Greece), Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey), Theater House (Tyr, Lebanon), Palestinian Young Filmmakers’ Association (Palestine) and Arab Women Media Center (Amman, Jordan). Three short documentaries will be screened during the 19th TDF, presented by the Greek directors/producers Marco Gastine, Angelos Kovotsos and Kostas Spiropoulos, tutors of the project. The event is organized by StoryDoc, with the support of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
MUSIC AT THE KAPANI MARKET
March 4, live 12:00-15:00 (Kapani Market) & dj set 22:30 (Uberdooze)
On the occasion of the new “Food vs. Food” segment, the 19th TDF in collaboration with the cultural organization “Kapani project”, invite you to a special music event. From 12:00 to 15:00 there will be live performances by two Thessaloniki-based bands -Τhe Coconaut Rockers and Deep in the Top- at the Kapani Market in Thessaloniki, while a dj set will take place at 22:30, at Uberdooze (Danaidon & Sfetsiou str).
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
“Techni” in Thessaloniki: The Film Club 1955-1967
March 9, 12:00, Pavlos Zannas Theater, free entrance
On the evening of November 11, 1955, the “Techni” Film Club was founded. Its soul was the acclaimed Greek author, translator and intellectual Pavlos Zannas, who was 26 years old at the time. The last screening of the Club took place on Sunday April 16, 1967, after showcasing approximately 300 films and tributes. The introductions to these screenings are presented half a century later by Ermis Publishers and the “Techni” Macedonian Arts Society, in a book edited by Alekos Zannas. The speakers of the event are: Chryssoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli (Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Art, Faculty of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Alecos Zannas (editor), Yannis Bakoyannopoulos (film critic) and Ioanna Manoledaki (painter-set designer, Professor Emeritus, Theater Department, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
“Small Adoptions” by Stavros Psillakis
March 11, 12:00, Pavlos Zannas theatre, free entrance
“Making a documentary film is like an act of adoption. It’s like waking up one morning and finding a baby on your doorstep. It’s up to you to decide what to do: ignore it or adopt it”, notes the Greek director Stavros Psillakis about his book “Small Adoptions”. The edition, an initiative of the Chania Film Festival, is presented during the 19th TDF in an event that features the following speakers: Orestis Andreadakis (Director of the Thessaloniki IFF), Electra Venaki (General Director of the Greek Film Centre), Matthaios Frantzeskakis (Director of the Chania FF, publisher), Angelos Kovotsos (film director), Stratos Kersanidis (journalist), Kostis Mavrakakis (architect) and Stavros Psillakis.
JUST TALKING
5-11 March (inclusive), 16.00–17.30, Olympion Complex, “Room with a view” Cafe
The Just Talking event, introduced in 2006, brings filmmakers from various parts of the world together and creates a platform of communication, promoting creativity and collaboration. Daily discussion groups of directors and producers revolve around issues that concern documentary filmmakers. Apart from the groups, all other accredited festival attendees are admitted and can either simply listen or participate.
THESSALONIKI CINEMATHEQUE LIBRARY
Inaugurated in March 2013, the Thessaloniki Cinematheque Library, yet another institution of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is the largest film library in the country, containing Greek and international books and magazines that cover a wide range of topics regarding information, study and research on the art of film. The collection consists of approximately 15,000 books, as well as Greek and international magazines about film. Part of the collection is available in digital form which allows easier access to the Library’s public. The Thessaloniki Film Library is hosted at the Cinema Museum – Cinematheque, in Warehouse A’ (City Port).
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