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Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2026

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I Am Not Your Negro I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro and State Funeral
The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu (Country: Romania; Year: 2010; Director: Andrei Ujica)
A biopic of former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, assembled from his own archive footage.
B-Movie: Lust And Sound In West-Berlin (Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Jörg A Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck; Writer: Jörg A Hoppe, Heiko Lange, Klaus Maeck, Mark Reeder, Mark Reeder; Stars: Blixa Bargeld, Gudrun Gut, Annette Humpe, Mark Reeder)
Documentary examining the cultural life of West Berlin in the 1980s.
FILM IST. A Girl & A Gun (Country: Austria, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Gustav Deutsch; Writer: Gustav Deutsch)
Vision of relationships explored through 'found footage'.
I Am Not Your Negro (Country: US, France, Belgium, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: James Baldwin)
Essay film based on James Baldwin's writing about the story of race in modern America.
Full Review See: Interview with Gay Talese about James Baldwin and I Am Not Your Negro
, Gay Talese in conversation on James Baldwin and I Am Not Your Negro
, Article about the 89th Academy Awards Oscar Best Documentary Feature Film nominees
My Mexican Bretzel (Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Nuria Giménez; Writer: Nuria Giménez)
Uses onscreen subtitles, taken from the diaries of one Vivian Barrett, to accompany and narrate silent images of her life with her husband Léon, a Second World War pilot who damaged his hearing in a plane accident.
State Funeral (Country: Netherlands, Lithuania; Year: 2019; Director: Sergei Loznitsa; Writer: Sergei Loznitsa)
Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
Full Review
Trains (Country: Poland, Lithuania; Year: 2024; Director: Maciej J Drygas)
Archival documentary charting the cyclical nature of war.
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