Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024

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Your Fat Friend Your Fat Friend
Your Fat Friend and An Asian Ghost Story
An Asian Ghost Story (Country: Netherlands, Hong Kong; Year: 2023; Director: Bo Wang; Writer: Bo Wang; Stars: Michael de Roos, Sydney Vereycken, Sai Wang Lau)
Documentary exploring the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernisation through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War.
Catching Fire: The Story Of Anita Pallenberg (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill; Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss, Anita Pallenberg, Angela Richards, Keith Richards, Marlon Richards)
Documentary about rock ‘n’ roll icon Anita Pallenberg.
Cinéma Laika (Country: France, Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Veljko Vidak; Writer: Emmanuelle Felce, Veljko Vidak; Stars: Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, Maustetytöt, Nuppu Koivu, Toshitake Shinohara, Amy Taubin, Simon Al-Bazoon, Herra Ylppö)
In a small village in Finland, which has relied solely on metallurgical activities for the past two centuries, Aki Kaurismäki and his friend, the poet and writer, Mika Lätti are constructing their own cinema theatre within an old foundry.
The Dmitriev Affair (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2023; Director: Jessica Gorter; Writer: Jessica Gorter; Stars: Joeri Dmitriev)
Historian Yuri Dmitriev searches for unmarked and lost graves. His singular efforts have uncovered mass burial sites of those who were killed under Stalin’s “Great Terror” of 1937.
The Gullspång Miracle (Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Maria Fredriksson)
A pair of sisters' encounter with a woman who looks like their dead sibling proves to be just the start of a whale of a tale.
The Gullspång Miracle The Gullspång Miracle
The Gullspång Miracle and Woolly
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Michael Selditch)
With idiosyncratic style and an eye toward the future of fashion, Patricia Field has always been shaping culture. This documentary examines the costume designer's life.
Hidden Master: The Legacy Of George Platt Lynes (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Sam Shahid; Writer: Sam Shahid, Matthew Kraus, John MacConnell; Stars: George Platt Lynes)
George Platt Lynes began his career photographing celebrities, and it's those portraits along with his extravagant fashion work that he's best remembered for today. However, George's heart, his passion, and his greatest talent lay elsewhere: in his work with the male nude. This work, sensuous and radically explicit for its time, has only recently begun being fully discovered and appreciated for the revolution that it represents — a man capturing his fantasies as a gift, a window to a future his camera saw coming before anyone else.
Homecoming (Máhccan) (Country: Finland, Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Suvi West, Anssi Kömi; Writer: Suvi West)
A personal story about the return of Sámi artefacts — long held in a museum — to their homeland.
Hotel Metalurg (Country: France, Georgia; Year: 2023; Director: George Varsimashvili, Jeanne Nouchi)
Survivors of the Abkhaz-Georgian war find themselves under pressure to leave the disused luxury hotel where they have lived for more than 30 years.
Intercepted (Country: Canada, France, Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Oksana Karpovych; Writer: Oksana Karpovych)
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.
Nocturne For A Forest Nocturne For A Forest
Nocturne For A Forest and Last Song From Kabul
In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Alex Gibney; Stars: Paul Simon)
A documentary which follows Paul Simon as he makes his new album Seven Psalms, while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds Of Silence to Graceland.
In The Rearview (Skąd dokąd) (Country: Poland, France, Ukraine; Year: 2023; Director: Maciek Hamela)
This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.
Last Song From Kabul (Country: UK, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Afghanistan; Year: 2023; Director: Kevin Macdonald, Ruhi Hamid; Stars: Marzia Anwari, Shugofa Safi, Zohra Ahmadi, Wajiha Kabuli, Sevinch Majidi, Fazila Zamir, Huma Rahimi)
The story of music students and members of Afghanistan's only all-female orchestra, and what happened to them after the return of the Taliban.
Let The Canary Sing (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alison Ellwood; Stars: Cyndi Lauper)
A documentary portrait of musician and activist Cyndi Lauper.
Mediha (Country: Iraq; Year: 2023; Director: Hasan Oswald; Writer: Hasan Oswald; Stars: Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad)
Mediha is a member of the Yazidi ethnic and religious minority. She’s also the survivor of an ISIS-orchestrated genocide in 2014. Through video diaries, Mediha provides an intimate account of her grief and trauma.
Mediha Mediha
Mediha and Intercepted
Nocturne For A Forest (Nocturno para uma floresta) (Country: Portugal; Year: 2023; Director: Catarina Vasconcelos; Writer: Catarina Vasconcelos; Stars: Paula Guedes, José Aguiar, Mariana Veloso)
The souls of women forbidden from entering a monastery debate the destiny of a painting inside it.
Pelikan Blue (Kék Pelikan) (Country: Hungary; Year: 2023; Director: László Csáki; Writer: László Csáki; Stars: Nóra Trokán, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Renátó Olasz, Vivien Rujder, Miklós Kapácsy, Börcsök Olivér Benjámin, Gábor Csöre, Ágoston Kenéz, Vilmos Vajdai, Norman Lévai, Tegyi Kornél, István Kálmánczhelyi, Judit Csoma)
Realm Of Satan (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Scott Cummings; Writer: Scott Cummings)
An experiential portrait depicting Satanists in both the everyday and in the extraordinary as they fight to preserve their lifestyle: magic, mystery, and misanthropy.
Songs Of Earth (Fedrelandet) (Country: Norway; Year: 2023; Director: Margreth Olin; Writer: Margreth Olin; Stars: Jørgen Mykle)
Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.
Woolly (Sau) (Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Rebekka Nystabakk; Writer: Rebekka Nystabakk)
A year in the life of a sheep farm that a woman is taking over from her father.
Realm Of Satan Realm Of Satan
Realm Of Satan and Homecoming
Your Fat Friend (Country: US, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Jeanie Finlay; Stars: Aubrey Gordon)
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
Zinzindurrunkarratz (Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Oskar Alegria)
Filmmaker Oskar Alegría and donkey Paolo embark on a journey to bring provisions to the last shepherd of the Andia Mountains.
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