Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2023

Modern Times Review at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

Mar 2

The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, a leading force in Southeast Europe, celebrates the art of documentary through a program of films, events and initiatives. TDF is an Oscars® eligible Festival.

The 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival takes place from 2 to 12 March.

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FILMS

5 Seasons of Revolution

Director: Lina

Under bombs, an aspiring video journalist finds herself facing self-reckoning as the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.

All You See

Director: Niki Padidar

Encounters with three other «new comers» to the Netherlands, the film turns the spotlight on all of us as it ponders questions of belonging, who gets exclusion, and the constant reaffirmation of outsider status.

Crows Are White

Director: Ahsen Nadeem

After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.

Eastern Front

Director: Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko

A gut-wrenching glimpse of the brutal realities of life and death on the Eastern front in Ukraine's fight to keep back Russian invaders.

Foragers

Director: Jumana Manna

The petty politics of Palestinian persecution – seen through the lens of age-old traditions of foraging for medicinal herbs.

I Like It Here

Director: Ralph Arlyck

A nostalgic love letter for the irreversible passing of time by one of the figureheads of American independent documentary.

Matter Out of Place

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Following waste across the planet and the endless struggle of people to gain control over it.

The DNA of Dignity

Director: Jan Baumgartner

We do not only find bones. We find stories. Lives once lived. Keeping an emotional distance is not always easy.

The Fledglings

Director: Lidia Duda

Three children learn to cope with their first year at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children.

The Natural History of Destruction

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’

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