The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival will have its curtain call on Sunday March 16th with the screening of the film Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025) by Shoshannah Stern that unravels the story of Marlee Matlin, the first ever deaf recipient of an Academy Award for acting.
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Illuminating stories and burning up-to-the-minute issues of current affairs are thrust into the limelight during the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, held from March 6th to March 16th, 2025. The unwavering policy of the state of Texas against abortions, a journalistic pilgrimage in northern Gaza amid Israeli bombings and violent clashes, the vast propaganda campaign of Russia’s authoritarian political system and the struggle of five women against digital control, are all chronicled in a selection of great documentaries within the framework of the 27th TiDF.
On Thursday March 6th, at 7.15pm, the film About a Hero by Piotr Winiewicz will signal the official opening of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. The Festival will call it a wrap on Sunday March 16th, with Shoshannah Stern’s Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore that unravels the story of Marlee Matlin, the first ever deaf recipient of an Academy Award for acting.
The fascinating documentary The Last Republican directed by Steve Pink unveils the struggle given by popular former Republican politician Adam Kinzinger to bring Donald Trump before justice, following the Capitol attack in January 2021, which marked one of the darkest pages in US political history. The film will be screened as part of the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, held from March 6th to March 16th, 2025.
The 30 documentaries taking part in the three competition sections – including 9 Greek productions – touch upon burning and up-to-the-minute issues, cope with transgenerational traumas, envision the emancipation from every form of oppression, contemplate on humanity’s future, map our relation with the environment and stand up against all discrimination and prejudice.
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (March 6-16, 2025) invites us to embark on a unique cinematic journey in the Greek countryside through documentaries of renowned filmmakers, most of them rare and off the radar. On the occasion of the recent discovery of the documentary Kastoria (1969) directed by Takis Kanellopoulos, a film considered lost up until now, the tribute titled Geography of the Gaze: Off-Plan Greece (1950-2000) lines up 19 documentary films that compose a multifaceted and illuminating portrait of the social, political and cultural life of Greece in the second half of the 20th century.
Vibrant and fascinating, unraveling heart-wrenching human stories and burning up-to-the-minute issues, the Greek documentaries take center stage at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, which will take place from March 6 to March 16, 2025, both in physical spaces and online. A total of 71 full-length and short documentaries from Greece will be screened in the three competition sections, International Competition, Newcomers and >>Film Forward, as well as in the Open Horizons, Platform+ and Special Screenings sections.
Up-to-the-minute and eye-opening, the work of the top-notch director and photographer Lauren Greenfield castigates the toxic side of hyperconsumerism, leaving a biting commentary on the decay of the nouveau-riche class that wastes itself in ephemeral delights. The 27th TiDF will host a tribute on the work of the American filmmaker, also welcoming her as a member of the International Competition jury.
In his movies, Philibert expresses a series of topical and fundamental social concerns, displaying loyalty, respect and sensibility towards the issue he touches upon. In his own words: “First and foremost, I am fascinated by the fragile character of the unpredictable, rather than the comfort of certainty. The unseen side is always the most intriguing.”
George Roussos 