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The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival hosts a series of exhibitions and visual events in the heart of the public space. Art works, installations, and video mapping take center stage at the streets, the squares and the Port of Thessaloniki, within the framework of 61st TIFF’s main concept “Intimacy: a Modern Tyranny”, inspired by Richard Sennett’s book The Fall of Public Man, and out of the need to re-appropriate public space. On account of the pandemic, we were driven to consume art privately; therefore, it is necessary for art to recapture its place in the public space.

The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s initiative Meet the Future focuses on eight up-and-coming cinematographers from Greece.

We would all meet at Olympion theatre, on the opening night of the 61^st Thessaloniki International Film Festival. However, our plans have changed due to the coronavirus pandemic conditions. Therefore, we have decided, as a token gesture, to give life to the theatre, hosting a closed-door screening of the opening film, with no audience.

The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival goes online and presents 177 films from all over the world, original tributes and exciting filmmakers. From Thursday, November 5 to Sunday, November 15, 2020, users from Greece will be able, with a simple registration to our website www.filmfestival.gr, to watch the films of the 61st TIFF.

Following the latest briefing by the Ministry of Health on the critical developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Greece, and with the assent of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the administration of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, with a sense of responsibility and having in mind the safety of the staff and the viewers, has decided that the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival will take place online from November 5 – November