Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2025

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Beachcomber (Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Aristotelis Maragkos; Writer: Hrysoula Korovesi, Aristotelis Maragkos; Stars: Christos Passalis)
Elias dreams of building a boat from scrap metal, chasing the shadow of his sailor father's legacy. But as his creation crumbles, so does the myth he’s built around himself – forcing him to confront the fragile truth of who he really is.
Bearcave (Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Krysianna B Papadakis, Stergios Dinopoulos)
Argyro and Anneta are two best friends living in the Greek mountain village of Tirna. Once Anneta reveals that she’s pregnant and planning to skip town with her cop boyfriend, Argyro, devastated, dares her to embark on a hike into the legendary Bearcave.
Cotton Queen (Country: Germany. France, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan; Year: 2025; Director: Suzannah Mirghani; Writer: Suzannah Mirghani; Stars: Mihad Murtada, Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud, Talaat Fareed, Haram Bisheer, Hassan Kassala)
In Sudan, Nafisa picks cotton and learns from her grandmother. The arrival of a young businessman, threatens to change their way of life.
Gorgonà (Country: Greece, France; Year: 2025; Director: Evi Kalogiropoulou)
In a timeless dystopian future, in a patriarchal city-state plagued by violence and environmental pollution, two women rebel and fight for their freedom and identity, transforming themselves into symbols of resistance and transformation.
Karla (Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Christina Tournatzès)
Munich, 1962. In a society bound by silence and shame, 12-year-old Karla makes a remarkable yet unusual decision: she brings her abusive father to court.
A Light That Never Goes Out (Country: Finland, Norway; Year: 2025; Director: Lauri-Matti Parppei)
In the aftermath of a personal crisis, unable to manage the weight of expectations placed upon him, 29-years-old Pauli, a talented and successful flautist, returns to his family home in a small town in Finland. There, almost unwillingly, he connects with a group of young musicians, pariahs in the suffocating, provincial environment, who, fueled by wonderful madness, compose experimental music through improvisation.
Maysoon (Country: Germany, Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Nancy Biniadaki; Writer: Nancy Biniadaki)
Egyptian archaeologist Maysoon lives in Berlin with her partner Tobi and their two children when her past catches up with her: once politically active before the Arab Spring, returning to Egypt could cost her her freedom.
Milk Teeth (Dinți de lapte) (Country: Romania; Year: 2025; Director: Mihai Mincan; Writer: Mihai Mincan; Stars: Emma Ioana Mogos, Marina Palii, Igor Babiac, Istvan Teglas)
During the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, a 10-year-old girl witnesses her sister’s disappearance.
On The Sea (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Helen Walsh; Stars: Barry Ward, Lorne Macfadyen, Celyn Jones, Liz White)
Love story about a married mussel farmer who falls in love with a handsome newcomer.
Pillion (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Harry Lighton; Writer: Harry Lighton, Adam Mars-Jones; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, Georgina Hellier, Brian Martin, Zamir Mesiti)
A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
Satisfaction (Country: US, Greece, Ukraine, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Alex Burunova)
The relationship between Lola and Philip, two young British composers, is falling apart. While spending their holiday on Antiparos, the two struggle to regain their footing as a couple, further unsettled by an encounter with a woman who brings repressed trauma to light.
Strange River (Estrany riu) (Country: Spain, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Jaume Claret Muxart; Writer: Jaume Claret Muxart, Meritxell Colell; Stars: Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz, Jordi Oriol, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell)
Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a cycling trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with another boy changes the course of the journey.
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