Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2026

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Jaripeo Jaripeo
Jaripeo and Barbara Forever
American Doctor (Country: US, Palestinian Territory, Malaysia, Qatar, Denmark, Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Poh Si Teng)
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Ask E. Jean (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ivy Meeropol; Stars: E Jean Carroll)
Charting E. Jean Carroll's life, including her court case showdown with Donald Trump.
Opening night gala
Barbara Forever (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Brydie O'Connor)
An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story (Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Yemi Bamiro; Writer: Otto Burnham, Yemi Bamiro; Stars: Alicia Keys, Gabrielle Union, Jesse Williams)
Documentary about the photographer, freedom fighter and activist.
Cookie Queens (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alysa Nahmias; Writer: Alysa Nahmias)
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide.
The Marbles The Marbles
The Marbles and Everybody To Kenmure Street
Everybody To Kenmure Street (Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra)
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
Jaripeo (Country: Mexico, US, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rebecca Zweig, Efraín Mojica)
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
The Marbles (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: David Wilkinson; Writer: Emlyn Price, David Wilkinson)
The story of the Parthenon marbles and the controversy surrounding their potential return.
Nuns Vs. The Vatican (#NunsToo) (Country: Italy, US; Year: 2025; Director: Lorena Luciano; Writer: Lorena Luciano; Stars: John Allen, Gloria, Nicole Winfield, Hans Zollner, Laura Sgro)
A small group of nuns reveals an agonising truth about the Catholic Church: the terrifying accounts of predatory priests torturing nuns.
The Oldest Person In The World (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Sam Green)
A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
Ask E. Jean Ask E. Jean
Ask E. Jean and The Oldest Person In The World
Reality Is Not Enough (Am I Irvine Welsh) (Year: 2023; Director: Paul Sng)
Documentary about the Trainspotting author.
Silenced (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Selina Miles)
After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gender violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.
Traces (Country: Ukraine, Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk)
Documentary shines a light on Ukrainian women who, after surviving conflict-related sexual violence and torture during the Russian war of aggression, refuse to remain silent.
Tristan Forever (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Tobias Nölle)
For 30 years, a doctor from Paris has maintained a friendship with a fisherman on Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Now he travels back one more time, with the plan to stay there for good.
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