Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024

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Desire Lines (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jules Rosskam; Writer: Nate Gualtieri; Stars: Theo Germaine, Aden Hakimi, Grant Carriker, Larry Dane, Chevon Dortch, Mike Geraghty, Emilie Modaff, Brandon Rivera, Emj Saab, Steve Silver, Diego Torrado)
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Holding Back The Tide (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Emily Packer; Writer: Josh Margolis, Emily Packer; Stars: T.L. Thompson, Robin Laverne Wilson, Katharine Antonia Nedder, Hilary Asare, Marlena Ospina, Thomas Annunziata, Hannah Rego, Meghan Dolbey, Avery Nusbaum, Aasia Taylor-Patterson, Hannah Lennon)
The story of oysters in NYC.
Reas (Country: Argentina, Germany, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Lola Arias; Stars: Yoseli Arias, Ignacio Amador Rodriguez, Estefy Harcastle)
A group of prison inmates re-enact their lives and sentences, balancing memories with fantasy.
Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat (Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2024; Director: Johan Grimonprez; Writer: Johan Grimonprez; Stars: Dag Hammarskjöld, Nikita Khrushchev, Patrice Lumumba, Andrée Blouin)
In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
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