Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2025

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Yalla Parkour and The Flats
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee; Writer: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, Alison Duke; Stars: James Baley, Bobby Dean Blackburn, Rob Bowman, Sandra Caldwell, Jimmy Church, Makayla Couture, Rodney Diverlus, Andrenee Majors Douglas, Elaine Gaber-Katz, Howard Gentry, Michael Gray, Vonnie Moore, Marisa Richmond, Jackie Shane, Raymond Summerour)
Story of the trailblazing trans soul musician.
Chain Reactions (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama)
Exploration of the impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50 years after it was made.
Ernest Cole, Lost And Found (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Raoul Peck; Stars: LaKeith Stanfield)
Documentary profiling the Black freelance photographer.
The Flats (Country: France, Belgium, Ireland, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Alessandra Celesia; Writer: Alessandra Celesia; Stars: Jolene Burns, Joe McNally, Sean Parker, Rita Overend, Angie B Campbell, Gerard Magee)
Joe and his Belfast neighbors reenact childhood memories from the violent Troubles era in their Catholic district, exploring the collective experiences that shaped their lives and community.
La Guitarra Flamenca de Yerai Cortés (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Antón Álvarez; Stars: Yerai Cortés, María Merino de Paz, Miguel Cortés, Tania García)
When Antón Álvarez, C Tangana, meets Yerai Cortés, he is fascinated by his talent and intrigued by his family history. Yerai is an unusual figure in flamenco, respected by both the more traditionalist Roma and the avant-garde artists of the new wave to which he belongs. They decide to embark on a journey together.

Khartoum and Mistress Dispeller
Khartoum (Country: Germany, UK, Sudan, Qatar; Year: 2025; Director: Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Rawia Alhag, Phil Cox, Philip Cox, Anas Saeed; Writer: Phil Cox)
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum - a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two young bottle collectors - reenact their stories of survival and freedom through dreams, revolution, and civil war.
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Bruce David Klein; Stars: Judy Garland, Mia Farrow, Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Bob Fosse, Lorna Luft, Ben Vereen, Gwen Verdon, Vincente Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Kay Thompson, Peter Allen, John Kander, Michael Feinstein, Fred Ebb)
Profile of Liza Minelli.
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Shoshannah Stern; Stars: Marlee Matlin)
In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. This documentary explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.
Mistress Dispeller (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Elizabeth Lo; Writer: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Elizabeth Lo)
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair.
The Moelln Letters (Die Möllner Briefe) (Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Martina Priessner; Stars: Havva Arslan, Ibrahim Arslan, Namik Arslan, Yeliz Burhan)
Thirty years after a racist arson attack in Mölln shattered the lives of İbrahim Arslan and his family, Ibrahim finds hundreds of letters of solidarity.

Trans Memoria and Peaches Goes Bananas
Monk In Pieces (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: David C Roberts, Billy Shebar; Writer: Billy Shebar, David C Roberts, Melissa Hacker, Trish Dalton; Stars: Björk, David Byrne, Meredith Monk)
Documentary about composer and performer Meredith Monk.
Only On Earth (Country: Denmark, Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Robin Petré; Writer: Robin Petré)
A journey to southern Galicia where animals and humans are struggling to cope with the climate crisis.
Pavements (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Stephen Malkmus, Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kanberg, Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Michael Esper, Kathryn Gallagher, Violette Trotter, Keith Poulson, John El-Jor)
An hybrid examination of the iconic 1990s indie band.
Peaches Goes Bananas (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Peaches, Suri Nisker, Marlene Saldana)
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.
Riefenstahl (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Andres Veiel; Writer: Andres Veiel; Stars: Ulrich Noethen, Leni Riefenstahl, Heinrich Breloer, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Horst Kettner, Ray Müller, Hansjürgen Rosenbauer, Albert Speer)
An exploration of Leni Riefenstahl’s artistic legacy and moral ambiguity.
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore and La Guitarra Flamenca de Yerai Cortés
Timestamp (Strichka Chasu) (Country: France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Kateryna Gornostai; Writer: Kateryna Gornostai; Stars: Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets, Valeriia Hukova, Yelyzaveta Loza, Svitlana Popova, Mykola Shpak)
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to carry on learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.
Trans Memoria (Country: Sweden, France; Year: 2024; Director: Victoria Verseau)
An intimate documentary diary, which sees the director return to Thailand and to the year 2012, when she underwent gender-affirming surgery.
Yalla Parkour (Country: Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Palestine; Year: 2025; Director: Areeb Zuaiter; Writer: Areeb Zuaiter, Phil Jandaly, Johan Simonsson, Nino Kirtadze, Salwa Nakkara, Alex Szalat; Stars: Areeb Zuaiter, Ahmad Matar)
A documentarian revisits Gaza where she encounters a young athlete leading her to embark on a journey through Gaza's devastated landscape.
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