The 22^nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) was one of the first events in Europe that was forced to make the decision not to run during its original dates (see the news). The festival, which was originally postponed to a later date, has decided to run online instead, as the pandemic situation is still critical. With 210 documentaries from around the globe set to screen, the TDF will run online from 19-28 May, and users from Greece can register on the festival’s website to watch the selection. Each film will be available for 400 screenings.

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Ten documentaries are competing for the Golden Alexander in TDF’s Feature Length International Competition, and all films but one are European co-productions, including three Greek documentaries. The selected docs are Acasă - My Home [+lee también:
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entrevista: Radu Ciorniciuc
ficha de la película] by Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Finland/Germany), King of the Cruise [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Sophie Dros (Netherlands), Meanwhile on Earth [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Carl Olsson (Sweden), Sing Me a Song [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Thomas Balmès (France/Germany/Switzerland), Slow News [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Alberto Puliafito (Italy), The Prophet and the Space Aliens [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Yoav Shamir (Israel/Austria/South Africa), Welcome to Chechnya by David France (USA), and the local docs The Fourth Character [+lee también:
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entrevista: Katerina Patroni
ficha de la película] by Katerina Patroni (Greece), The Music of Things [+lee también:
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entrevista: Menios Carayannis
ficha de la película] by Menios Carayannis (Greece) and The Unknown Athenians by Angeliki Antoniou (Greece/Germany).

Furthermore, 12 first-time and sophomore filmmakers are competing in the “Newcomers” International Competition, with the selection featuring #387 by Madeleine Leroyer (France/Belgium), Always Amber [+lee también:
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entrevista: Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hi…
ficha de la película] by Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen (Sweden), Everything Must Go by Gianluca Matarrese (Italy/France), Express Scopelitis by Emilia Milou (Greece/UK), Lady Time [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Elina Talvensaari (Finland), The Marriage Project [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Atieh Attarzadeh Firozabad and Hesam Eslami (Iran/France), The Pace of Water by Antonio Di Biase (Italy), Self Portrait [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Katja Hogset, Margreth Olin and Espen Wallkin (Norway), Spiros and the Circle of Death by Dimitrios Kafidas and Lino Kafidas (Greece/Belgium), Sundays by Alethea Avramis (Greece/France), Walchensee Forever [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Janna Ji Wonders (Germany), and Zumiriki [+lee también:
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entrevista: Oskar Alegría
ficha de la película] by Oskar Alegria (Spain).

The third international competitive section is >>Film Forward, in which nine films will partake, while eight more documentaries are featured out of competition. Some of the docs are Birds (Or How to Be One) [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Babis Makridis (Greece), Days of Cannibalism [+lee también:
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entrevista: Teboho Edkins
ficha de la película] by Teboho Edkins (France/South Africa/Netherlands), The House of Love [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Luca Ferri (Italy), The Metamorphosis of Birds [+lee también:
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entrevista: Catarina Vasconcelos
ficha de la película] by Catarina Vasconcelos (Portugal), Ouvertures [+lee también:
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entrevista: Louis Henderson
ficha de la película] by Olivier Marboeuf and Louis Henderson (UK/France), and The Year of the Discovery [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Luis Lopez Carrasco (Spain).

As always, there will be a special focus on Greek documentaries, and a total of 77 productions have been selected in various sections, including the international competitions.

Regarding the tributes organised by the TDF, one of them is dedicated to animated documentaries, a hybrid subgenre that is evolving very rapidly, and as part of the Anthropocene Epoch tribute, various geological, environmental, social, philosophical, political and cultural aspects will be explored, while memes will be examined through a special batch of documentaries.

Finally, a series of live, open discussions will be streamed on Thessaloniki’s YouTube channel, including a talk with renowned war correspondent Robert Fisk, the protagonist of the documentary This Is Not a Movie [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], as well as the film’s director, Yung Chang (21 May), while memes will be explored on 27 May by Matthias Fritsch, the director of The Story of the Technoviking, the vice-president of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), Yiannis Ioannidis, and The Real Ancient Memes.