Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2026

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Below The Clouds Below The Clouds
Below The Clouds and Boorman And The Devil
Below The Clouds (Sotto Le Nuvole) (Country: Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Gianfranco Rosi; Writer: Gianfranco Rosi)
Documenting Vesuvius, featuring traces of history, the excavation of time, the remains of everyday life.
Boorman And The Devil (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David Kittredge; Writer: David Kittredge; Stars: John Boorman, Louise Fletcher, Karyn Kusama, Mike Flanagan, Joe Dante, Linda Blair, Simon Abrams)
After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was offered to direct The Exorcist II. The film became a massive failure, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value.
Broken English (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard; Writer: Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth, Ian Martin; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, George MacKay, Tilda Swinton)
Portrait of Marianne Faithfull.
Cuba & Alaska (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Yegor Troyanovsky)
Documentary following the friendship of two paramedics on the frontline in Ukraine.
Imago (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Déni Oumar Pitsaev)
After the director receives some land in Georgia by the Chechnyan border, he contemplates building a house but asks - 'How could I live in such a place?'
Cuba & Alaska Cuba & Alaska
Cuba & Alaska and Natchez
I Want Her Dead (Il quieto vivere) (Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Gianluca Matarrese)
A darkly comic and emotionally charged tale of a Southern Italian family on the verge of implosion.
Natchez (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Suzannah Herbert; Writer: Suzannah Herbert, Pablo Proenza)
A consideration of the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past.
Nova '78 (Country: Portugal, UK; Year: 2025; Director: Rodrigo Areias, Aaron Brookner; Writer: Aaron Brookner; Stars: Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Anne Waldman, James Grauerholtz, Peter Orlovsky, Merce Cunningham, Julia Heyward, Robert Anton Wilson, John Giorno)
A journey into the heart of 1970s counter-culture, built around never-before-seen footage from the legendary Nova Convention.
Remake (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Ross McElwee)
The filmmaker revisits footage of his life as he works through the grief of losing his adult son.
Wax & Gold (Country: Austria, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Ruth Beckermann)
Starting from a hotel in Addis Ababa built by Emperor Haile Selassie, Ruth Beckermann reflects on Ethiopia's history and current state.
Broken English Broken English
Broken English and Imago
Who Is Still Alive (Country: Switzerland, France, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolas Wadimoff; Writer: Nicolas Wadimoff; Stars: Jawdat Khoudary, Mahmoud Jouda, Adel Altaweel, Haneen Harara, Malak Khadra, Hana Eleiwa, Feras Elshrafi, Eman Shannan, Ghada Alabadla)
Nine refugees who escaped Gaza tell their stories.
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