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Collaboration between the TIFF & Greek Film Centre with the Festival de Cannes

The second edition of the event “Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes” will take place on Monday May 14^th 2018, during the 71^st Festival de Cannes (8-19 May, 2018). This is a collaboration of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in partnership with the Greek Film Centre, and the Festival de Cannes.

Following last year’s successful pilot event, TIFF’s Agora will participate in “Goes to Cannes” of this year’s edition of Cannes’ Marché du Film by presenting 5 Works in Progress: fiction or documentary films at post-production stage from Greece or the surrounding area. These films will be showcased to the sales agents, distributors and programmers who attend this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film, one of the world’s largest film markets, discovering up-and-coming directors from all over the world.

Greece is the only country in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans that participates in the event.

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A “window” with a view to the world of the fiery artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the New York art scene in the late 1970s and the early 1980s was opened by the “high priestess” of independent cinema Sara Driver, as part of the open discussion “De(re)constructing Legends” that took place on Saturday 3 March 2018 at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, as part of the 20th anniversary edition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.