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Thessaloniki International Film Festival

The International Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) has become the one of the Balkans

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' primary showcases for the work of new and emerging filmmakers. The event features the International Section, a panorama of Greek

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films, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film. The Festival is competitive with the International Section jury awarding several prizes each year, most notably the "Golden Alexander" for Best Feature-Length Film.

e 1992, the International Thessaloniki Film Festival has striven to present the most innovative independent films from around the world.

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The International Thessaloniki Film Festival (TIFF) has become the one of the Balkans

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Overview

Since 1992, the International Thessaloniki Film Festival has striven to present the most innovative independent films from around the world. Components of the Festival include:

The International Competition section consists of new directors' first or second films.
The non-competitive panorama of Greek films, an overview of the recent local production is followed by the presentation of the State Film Awards by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
The Independence Days non-competitive section is the cutting-edge showcase for the latest trends in independent film production.
The Balkan Survey, created in 1994, stands as a unique program which offers audiences a window on the cinema of this region of the world.

Today, president of the Thessaloniki Film Festival is the Paris

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-born Greek actor Georges Corraface

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Retrospectives and tributes look at both historic masters, and emerging artists. Since 1993, numerous directors have been represented in the retrospective/tribute programs, including:

Tirana Year Zero
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(2002)
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(1996)
John Boorman
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Michael Cacoyannis
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John Cassavetes
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Claude Chabrol
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Patrice Chereau
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Gustavo Santaolalla
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(2008)
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Oliver Stone
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Luc Dardenne
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Jules Dassin
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Atom Egoyan
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Victor Erice
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(2004)
Peter Greenaway
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Otar Iosseliani
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Takis Kanellopoulos
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Wong Kar-Wai
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Abbas Kiarostami
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Nikos Koundouros
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Akira Kurosawa
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Ken Loach
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Joao Cesar Monteiro
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Manoel de Oliveira
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Nagisa Oshima
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Lucian Pintilie
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Jean-Daniel Pollet
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Bob Rafelson
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Arturo Ripstein
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Jerzy Skolimowski
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Wim Wenders
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In addition to the rich film offerings, the Festival hosts panels, exhibitions, and other artistic events such as:

The Nam June Paik Video & Television Art exhibition
The Strange Objects of Desire of David Cronenberg Ingrid Caven's concert
Paintings & Collage
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Periplanissis Photo Exhibit by Josef Koudelka
"Peter Greenaway
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's Paintings, Drawings & Collages" exhibit
Jazz master Gato Barbieri
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in concert

Over the last five years the Festival has also spotlighted significant, leading directors and promoted the work of emerging young filmmakers from all over the world.

History

First held in 1960 as a modest "Week of Greek Cinema", the Thessaloniki International Film Festival has become, 46 years later, an annual event focused on the discovery and promotion of new directors from all over the world. For ten days in mid-November, audiences numbering approximately 70,000, as well as hundreds of Greek and foreign Festival guests, attend screenings of more than 150 films in the city's cinemas.

Newcomers in the competitive section meet veteran filmmakers whose work is celebrated through retrospectives and special screenings. All films are screened before the young, vital, cinema-loving Thessaloniki audience, while in the Festival's parallel events, such as concerts and art exhibitions, cinema is brought together with the other arts. The Festival assumed its present international character in 1992, under the direction of Michel Demopoulos, with the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Municipality of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

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and other local institutions, and with the unanimous support of the city's population. The international recognition enjoyed by the Festival is illustrated by the participation in its jury of celebrities such as Francis Ford Coppola

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, Catherine Deneuve

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, and many others.

List of Golden Alexander winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1992	Orlando Orlando (film) *Orlando* is a 1992 in film film, based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I of England....	Sally Potter Sally Potter Sally Potter is an England film director and screenwriter. Her films include Orlando , The Man Who Cried, The Tango Lesson, and more recently, Yes ....	United Kingdom
1992	Dance in the Night	Aleko Tsabadze	Georgia
1993	From the Snow	Sotiris Goritsas	Greece
1994	The Days The Days (film) *The Days* is film director Wang Xiaoshuai's Chinese films of the 1990s directorial debut. Filmed entirely in black-and-white, The Days follows the life of Dong , and Chun , married artists who have recently graduated from the Beijing Art Institute....	Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation or Urban Generation of the Cinema of China....	China
1995	Postman Postman (film) *Postman* is a Cinema of China made in 1995 and directed by He Jianjun. His second feature, Postman tells the story of a shy mailman played by Feng Yuanzheng who steals and reads the letters of people on his route....	He Jianjun He Jianjun He Jianjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, He is considered a leading voice in the so-called "Cinema_of_China#The_Sixth_Generation_and_beyond.2C_1990s_-_present."...	China
1996	Brothers in Trouble	Udayan Prasad	United Kingdom
1997	Road to Nhill Road to Nhill *Road to Nhill* is a 1997 Australian comedy-drama film....	Sue Brooks	Australia
1998	Fishes in August	Yoichiro Takahashi	Japan
1999	Shower Shower (film) *Shower* is an award-winning 1999 People's Republic of China drama film / comedy film film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Zhu Xu, Pu Cunxin and Jiang Wu....	Zhang Yang	China
2000	Last Resort Last Resort (2000 film) *Last Resort* is a film by Pawel Pawlikowski, released in 2000 and starring Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov and Paddy Considine.A young Russian woman and her son arrive in London, expecting to be met by her fianc?....	Pavel Pawlikowski	United Kingdom
2001	Tirana Year Zero Tirana Year Zero *Tirana Year Zero* , is a 2002 in film Albania film that tells the story of a young couple in post-communism Albania, at a time when many Albanians left the country in search for a better life abroad....	Fatmir Koçi	Albania
2002	Woman of Water	Hidenori Sugimori	Japan
2002	Blissfully Yours Blissfully Yours *Blissfully Yours* is a 2002 in film Cinema of Thailand romance film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival....	Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul 'Apichatpong Weerasethakul' is a Thai independent film film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Tropical Malady, which won a Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and Syndromes and a C...	Thailand
2003	The Last Train	Aleksei German Aleksei German Aleksei Yuryevich German is a Russian filmmaker, most active as a director and screenwriter. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is frequently spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion....	Russia
2004	Bitter Dream	Mohsen Amiryousefi	Iran
2005	Someone Else's Happiness Someone Else's Happiness *Someone Else's Happiness* is a 2005 in film Belgian-Netherlands film directed and written by Fien Troch. The movie was the Belgian entry for the 79th Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but failed to receive the actual nomination....	Fien Troch	Belgium
2006	Family Ties Family Ties (film) *Family Ties* is the second film by South Korean director Kim Tae-Yong, known for his debut Memento Mori . Mismarketed as a slapstick comedy through its promotional posters, the film is actually a generation-to-generation view of two families through love and life....	Kim Tae-yong	South Korea
2007	The Red Awn The Red Awn *The Red Awn* is a 2007 Cinema of China directed by first-time helmer Cai Shangjun. The film premiered at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize....	Cai Shangjun Cai Shangjun Cai Shangjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter....	China
2008	Over There	Abdolreza Kahani	Iran

External links

- official website
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival Flickr Group's Pool

Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Overview

History

List of Golden Alexander winners

See also

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