Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2023

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Bread And Salt and Remember To Blink
Black Stone (Country: Greece; Year: 2022; Director: Spyros Jacovides; Writer: Ziad Semaan, Spiros Jacovides; Stars: Eleni Kokkidou, Julio George Katsis, Achilleas Chariskos, Kevin Zans Ansong)
While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son.
Bread And Salt (Chleb i sól) (Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Damian Kocur; Writer: Damian Kocur, Marta Konarzewska; Stars: Tymoteusz Bies, Jacek Bies, Nadim Suleiman, Nikola Raczko, Bartosz Olewinski, Dawid Piejko, Malgorzata Puzio, Wojciech Walkiewicz, Nadim Shalabi)
A pianist returns to his home town, where he finds a new kebab bar in town, which begins to generate friction between the employees and local youths.
India (Country: Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Telmo Churro; Writer: Mariana Ricardo, Telmo Churro; Stars: Pedro Inês, Denise Fraga, José Manuel Mendes, João Carvalho, Lídia Franco, Maria João Pinho, Teresa Madruga, Maria Emília Correia)
Three generations of Portuguese men who live between dreams, lost glories and existential crises find their lives intertwined with a wander-woman, a warm flâneuse who sends letters that detail her wanderings.
Mammalia (Country: Romania, Poland, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Sebastian Mihăilescu; Writer: Andrei Epure, Sebastian Mihăilescu; Stars: István Téglás, Mălina Manovici. Denisa Nicolae, Steliana Bălăcianu, Rolando Matsangos, Mirela Crețan, Andreea Gheorghe)
Thirty-nine-year-old Camil embarks on a dreamlike trip where the banal and the surreal merge.
Mannvirki (Country: Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Gústav Geir Bollason; Writer: Gústav Geir Bollason)
Documentary consideration of an abandoned building on Iceland's northern coast .
Remember To Blink (Per Arti, The Family) (Country: Lithuania; Year: 2022; Director: Austeja Urbaite; Writer: Austeja Urbaite; Stars: Dovile Kundrotaite, Anne Azoulay, Arthur Igual, Inesa Sionova, Ajus Antanavicius)
A young woman engaged to help a pair of children fit into their new French family engages in a battle of wills with their new mum.
Tobacco Barns (Secaderos, Tobacco Farms) (Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Rocio Mesa; Writer: Rocio Mesa; Stars: Rocio Mesa)
A tiny rural village is a paradise for a city girl and a prison for a local teenager. Two parallel stories take place among tobacco drying rooms of a single summer.
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