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Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025

Focusing on the limitations that demarcate the fragile human nature. The tribute is part of the renewed and extended Survey Expanded section of the Meet the Neighbors+ competition section, which includes films from the wider neighborhood of Greece.

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Dry Leaf and All That’s Left Of You
All That’s Left Of You (Ally Baqi Mink) (Country: Cyprus, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Cherien Dabis; Writer: Cherien Dabis; Stars: Saleh Bakri, Cherien Dabis, Mohammad Bakri, Adam Bakri, Maria Zreik, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Sanad Alkabareti, Salah El Din)
After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.
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Dracula (Country: Romania, Austria, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude; Stars: Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, Neil Young. Alexandra .Harapu.)
Gonzo exploration of the Vlad the Impaler mythos.
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Dry Leaf (Country: Germany, Georgia; Year: 2025; Director: Alexandre Koberidze; Writer: Alexandre Koberidze; Stars: David Koberidze, Irina Chelidze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Otar Nijaradze, Vakhtang Panchulidze)
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
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Eagles Of The Republic (Country: France, Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Tarik Saleh; Writer: Tarik Saleh; Stars: Fares Fares, Cherien Dabis, Lyna Khoudri, Zineb Triki, Sherwan Haji, Hassan El Sayed, Pedram Hajigholi, Suhaib Nashwan, Mohammed Nehmi, Haitham Elsaadani)
Everybody Loves Touda (Country: Morocco; Year: 2024; Director: Nabil Ayouch; Writer: Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani; Stars: Nisrin Erradi, Jalila Talemsi)
A singer plans to build a better future for her son.
Dracula Dracula
Dracula and Eagles Of The Republic
Growing Down (Minden Renben) (Country: Hungary; Year: 2025; Director: Bálint Dániel Sós; Writer: Bálint Dániel Sós, Gergö V. Nagy; Stars: Szabolcs Hajdu, Ágoston Sáfrány, Anna Háy, Zoltán Friedenthal, Rita Kerkay, Eliza Sodró, Kati Zsurzs, Róbert Kardos, Attila Kosztor)
Sándor, a widower, is the only witness to a serious accident involving his stepdaughter and youngest son. Now he faces a dilemma: should he tell the truth and live with the consequences? Or lie and save his son from juvenile detention?
Stepne (Country: Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Slovakia; Year: 2023; Director: Maryna Vroda; Writer: Maryna Vroda, Kirill Schuvalov; Stars: Oleksandr Maksiakov, Nina Antonova, Oleg Primogenov, Radmila Schegoleva)
A man who comes back home to take care of his dying mother finds a meeting with his brother and a woman he loves makes him reflect on the choices he made along the way.
Trust (Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Daniele Luchetti; Writer: Domenico Starnone, Daniele Luchetti, Francesco Piccolo; Stars: Elio Germano, Pilar Fogliati, Vittoria Puccini, Isabella Ferrari, Federica Rosellini, Giordano De Plano, Roberto Latini, Luca Gallone, Bruno Orlando, Elena Arvigo, Elena Bouryka, Sofia Luchetti)
A teacher becomes romantically entangled with a former pupil.
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