Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2026

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Alexander The Great And The Accursed Dragon (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Dimos Avdeliodis; Stars: Konstantinos Passas, Yorgos Nikopoulos, Veronika Argentzi, Themistocles Karpodinis, Danae Roussou)
In Karagiozis's dream, a man‑eating Dragon seizes control of the city's aqueduct. In order to prevent panic, Rigas persuades him to accept his victims by lottery. When the lot falls on Rigopoula, twelve‑year‑old Alexandre, searching for the horse he adores, unexpectedly comes upon the Dragon. He does not panic. Selfless love completely conquers fear.
Angel Downtown (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Freddy Vianellis; Stars: Aggelos Papadimitriou, Sofia Kokkali, Katia Leclerc O'Wallis, Myrto Makri)
The path to performance runs through life. Aggelos shares stories, encounters, and small adventures on his way to the theatre. As he wanders through downtown Athens, everyday life becomes a stage, and the people he meets illuminate the delicate relationship between art, care, and life itself.
Apart (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Stelana Kliris)
1974. When Turkey invades Cyprus, young Eleni escapes through an arranged marriage to a fellow Greek-Cypriot in apartheid South Africa. They begin to build a life together but a secret from her past forces her to make a decision that could change her life forever.
A day In The life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Country: Greece, Romania, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Jacqueline Lentzou; Writer: Jacqueline Lentzou)
Jo, melancholic, wild and only 15 feels shy to listen to music she truly likes, yet with Phaedra’s etheric song, her heart skips a beat and all quietly shifts. It's a day of changes.
Don't Forget the Sunshine (Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Marco Papadopoulos; Writer: Marco Papadopoulos; Stars: Lydia Maria Makrides, Stefania Goulioti, Alexandros Nikolaidis, Moritz Zielke, Joan Pascu)
After six years in Germany, Maria gradually loses touch with who she is, trapped between the routine of her work and the intensity of her nights in the techno scene. When her ailing mother and older brother come to visit from Greece for the first time, old wounds reopen and long-suppressed conflicts rise to the surface.
Elena's Shift (Country: Greece; Year: 2025; Director: Stefanos Tsivopoulos)
Elena, a Romanian single mother in Athens, dreams of a better future and becomes determined to seek justice after losing her job.
The Flaw (Country: Greece, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Theophilos Papastylianos; Writer: Theophilos Papastylianos; Stars: David Dawson, Arthur McBain, Ralf Little, Angela Brouskou, Lyne Renee, Sarah Akokhia, Georgia Small)
In a bleak future where the Regime decides who belongs and who doesn't, the Line divides everyone. Now, a ruthless Interrogator is ordered to prove a Suspect’s guilt. A game of psychological manipulation unfolds as the Plan advances with cold precision. Every word or action is cast in a new light. Reality itself becomes twisted. But just as the puzzle seems complete, a single flaw changes everything.
Foreign Blood (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Adonis Lykouresis; Writer: Nikos Panayotopoulos; Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Andri Theodotou, Thodoris Kampitsis, Marlene Kaminsky)
Dennis, a man in his late fifties, leads a quiet life in Zakynthos, running a bar with Vera, his Bulgarian partner, and her 20-year-old son, Alex, whom he regards as his own. One winter night, Alex takes a mysterious foreign girl on a ride and causes an accident. Dennis rushes her to hospital, only to discover she is his estranged daughter. Dennis must confront his past.
Game Theory (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Karolos Zonaras; Writer: Karolos Zonaras; Stars: Georges Corraface, Dimitris Passas, Katia Leclerc O'Wallis, Pavlos Evagelopoulos, Harrys Tzortzakis, Pantelis Dentakis, Alexia Kaltsiki)
​Trapped in a forbidden affair with his stepmother, a man under the growing influence of an AI companion enters a deadly game.
The Gleaner (Year: 2025; Director: Panagiotis Rappas; Writer: Panagiotis Rappas)
On Christmas Eve, on a small snow-covered Aegean island in the late 19th century, Ahtitsa, a poor elderly woman, struggles to raise her two orphaned grandchildre. A cheque from her long-lost son in America brings hope but she faces exploitation from a local.
Happy Beginning (Country: Greece; Year: 1954; Director: Dinos Dimopoulos; Writer: Asimakis Gialamas, Giorgos Economidis, Costas Pretederis; Stars: Giorgos Economidis, Katia Linda, Vasilis Avlonitis, Margarita Papageorgiou, Georgia Vasileiadou, Nikos Rizos, Stavros Xenidis, Hristos Tsaganeas, Nitsa Tsaganea, Nikos Fermas, Dinos Iliopoulos, Rena Stratigou, Yorgos Damasiotis, Margarita Labrinou, Linda Alma)
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.
Hold Onto Me (Κράτα Με) (Country: Cyprus, France, Denmark, US, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Myrsini Aristidou; Writer: Myrsini Aristidou; Stars: Hristos Passalis, Maria Petrova, Jenny Sallo, Aulona Lupa, Achilleas Grammatikopoulos, Giorgos Kyriacou)
Eleven-year-old Iris learns her estranged father, Aris, is back in town for his own father’s funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he’s been keeping to himself. What begins as a stubborn attempt to reconnect slowly unfolds into a fragile bond.
The Lion At My Back (Country: Cyprus, Luxembourg, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Tonia Mishiali; Writer: Tonia Mishiali, Dianne Jones, Simona Nobile; Stars: Sokhna Diallo, Elena Kallinikou, Prokopis Agathokleous, Herodotos Miltiadous, Giorgos Kyriacou, Dimitris Antoniou, Giulio Filippo D'Errico, Andreas Patsias)
Mariama, an asylum-seeker from Senegal, has just turned 18. Stella, at first glance a withdrawn woman in her 40s, has recently decided to break free from the clutches of addiction and to give her life a fresh start. In their attempt at finding their place in a world where nothing comes for free, the two women meet and form an unexpectedly strong bond.
The Megalomaniacs (Country: Greece, Cyprus, Colombia; Year: 2025; Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos)
A collaboration between an archaeologist and a potter begins as scholarly curiosity and evolves into a seductive duel of wit, vanity, and power.
Particles Of Dust (Country: Greece, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Argyris Germanidis; Stars: Sofia Kokkali, Nikolas Papadomihelakis, Giorgos Efthimiou)
The corpse of a young man washes up on the shores of Atalante, marking Isidore’s return to the land of the living. As he follows the traces of his past lives in search of lost memories, Isidore finds himself caught in a deceptive web of stories within stories.
Titanic Ocean (Country: Spain, France, Greece, Japan, Romania; Year: 2026; Director: Konstantina Kotzamani; Writer: Konstantina Kotzamani)
Kyoko, a young Japanese girl training to become a professional mermaid, is saved by her coach's mouth-to-mouth "kiss of life". Desire awakens within her, she finds her mermaid voice and discovers the devastating effects of her singing, which will lead her to face the other side of the world.
Under The Judas Tree (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Christos Houliaras; Writer: Christos Houliaras, George Zafeiropoulos; Stars: Eleni Vergeti, Giorgos Dambasis, Vasilis Siafis, Tasos Karlis, Alexis Kalofolias, Marina Argyropoulou)
In a remote village, Elias, a self-exiled father, reconnects with his best friend, a local police officer. When a young woman is found murdered outside the village, solving the crime becomes an obsession for him.
A Whole Person Almost (Country: Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis; Writer: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis)
Ilias arrives on a remote island to claim his late father’s inheritance. But the longer he is forced to stay on the island, the more his initial indifference begins to fade.
Worthy (Country: Cyprus, Greece; Year: 2026; Director: Christos Georgiou; Writer: Christos Georgiou, Giorgos Kousouris; Stars: Makis Papadimitriou, Marina Argyridou, Andreas Vasileiou, Andreas C. Tselepos, Lenia Sorokkou, Marina Makris, Stella Fyrogeni, Ioanna Siafkali, Elena Kallinikou)
The discovery of an icon, which Ilias believes to be crying, sets him on his journey from cemetery caretaker to the chosen one. While he is on his quest to bring the icon to the people of the small town, we also follow three other stories of people who could do with a little help from a miraculous icon.
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