Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2023

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Melk Melk
Melk and The Vourdalak
All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Raven Jackson; Writer: Raven Jackson; Stars: Charleen McClure, Moses Ingram, Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Reginald Helms Jr., Sheila Atim, Chris Chalk)
A decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.
Camping Du Lac (Country: Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Éléonore Saintagnan; Writer: Éléonore Saintagnan; Stars: Éléonore Saintagnan, Rosemary Standley, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Wayne Standley, Anna Turluche)
Éléonore drives West. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow on a campsite with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.
Embryo Lava Butterfly (Country: Cyprus, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Kyros Papavassiliou; Writer: Kyros Papavassiliou; Stars: Maria Apostolakea, Hristos Sougaris, Makis Papadimitriou, Stephania Sotiropoulou, Yiannis Niarros)
Penelope and Isidoros live in a world where today they are lovers but the following day they scarcely know one another - a place where time doesn’t flow.
Foremost By Night (Sobre Todo De Noche) (Country: Spain, Portugal, France; Year: 2023; Director: Víctor Iriarte; Writer: Isa Campo, Víctor Iriarte, Andrea Queralt; Stars: Lola Dueñas, Manuel Egozkue, Ana Torrent, María Vázquez)
When Vera was young, she wasn’t able to take care of her son and had to give him up for adoption. Years later, when she tried to find him, the institutions told her that her file did not exist. She has continued to look for him ever since. When Cora was young, her doctor told her that she could not have children and that only by adopting could she start a family. Cora has dedicated her life to teaching piano lessons and caring for her adopted son, Egoz, about to turn 18. Now, the paths of these three characters are about to cross.
Hello Dankness (Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Soda Jerk)
Assembling hundreds of film clips and media images, artist duo Soda Jerk creates a startling narrative about the changes undergone by American society since Trump, reflecting on contemporary cultural values.
Samsara Samsara
Samsara and Remembering Every Night
The Human Surge 3 (El auge del humano 3) (Country: Argentina, Portugal, Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Peru; Year: 2023; Director: Eduardo Williams; Writer: Eduardo Williams)
Different groups of friends wander in a dark, rainy and windy world. They spend time together, trying to get away from their depressing jobs, meandering constantly towards the mystery of new possibilities.
In Water (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Hong Sangsoo; Stars: Shin Seokho, Ha Seongguk, Kim Seungyun)
A young actor decides to make a short film on Jeju Island. Searching for an idea, one day he notices a figure amid the rocks at the foot of a cliff. Finally, he has a story to tell.
Kaizo (Country: Greece; Year: 2023; Director: George Drivas; Writer: George Drivas; Stars: Angeliki Beveratou, Nikos Vlachogiannis)
The story of two children as they wander through an empty town in a bizarre game of exploration.
Little Things That Went Wrong (Country: Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Haris Vafeiadis; Writer: Haris Vafeiadis; Stars: Thanos Tokakis, Mihalis Siriopoulos, Christina Cheila-Fameli)
Fanis, after the glory as a TV celebrity, is gone downhill for good. All he needs now, is a divine sign to make it again.
Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Denis Côté; Writer: Denis Côté; Stars: Larissa Corriveau, Evelyne de la Chenelière, Olivier Aubin, Hinde Rabbaj)
Set on carrying out her task with dedication, a woman is obsessed with watching over anonymous interiors and occupying them. Both a custodian of the premises and a ghostly presence, she becomes an echo of how we relate to time, solitude and the melancholy of forsaken spaces.
Hello Dankness Hello Dankness
Hello Dankness and All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt
Melk (Milk) (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2023; Director: Stefanie Kolk; Writer: Stefanie Kolk, Nena van Driel; Stars: Frieda Barnhard, Jules Elting, Wimie Wilhelm, Marleen Scholten, Arnoud Bos, Hans Ligtvoet, Murat Toker, Aleksej Ovsiannikov, Dolores Leeuwin, Ruth Sahertian, Christophe Lowie, Monique Heijmink-Wiegman, Tanja Rozeboom, Charles Verhoeff, Maren Jebbink)
A mum who has lost her baby tries to work through her grief as she attempts to donate her milk.
Mothers Of Daughters (Country: Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Elke Lehrenkrauss, Youla Boudali; Writer: Elke Lehrenkrauss, Youla Boudali; Stars: Eleni Karagiorgi, Christina Kypreou, Marianna Bozantzoglou, Niki Papandreou, Zoe Sigalou, Aeneas Tsamatis, Miltos Tsiantos, Michalis Pizidis)
A mother loses her daughter to femicide. Instead of reacting with rage against the world, she mourns in her own different way: by going out, speaking publicly, and fighting to trade love for patriarchy for the sake of our society.
My Mother is a Saint (Country: Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas; Writer: Syllas Tzoumerkas; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Eleni Karagiorgi, Niki Papandreou, Leonidas Stamou, Artemis Zarokosta, Anastasia Anagnostopoulou, Argyris Lambrou)
The meeting of a mother with her son at her hometown takes an unexpected turn.
A Prince (Un Prince) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Pierre Creton)
Drama about a gardening apprentice.
Remembering Every Night (Subete no yoru wo omoidasu) (Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Yui Kiyohara; Writer: Yui Kiyohara; Stars: Kumi Hyôdô, Manami Ohba, Ai Mikami, Tadashi Okuno, Guama Uchida, Shintaro Yuya, Mizuho Nojima)
Drama involving the quiet pursuits of several women over a single afternoon.
Samsara (Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Lois Patiño; Writer: Lois Patiño; Stars: Amid Keomany, Toumor Xiong, Simone Milavanh, Mariam Vuaa Mtego, Juwairiya Idrisa Uwesu)
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
The Vourdalak (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Adrien Beau; Writer: Adrien Beau, Hadrien Bouvier, based on the novella by, Aleksei Tolstoy; Stars: Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider, Kacey Mottet Klein)
Historic vampire tale, adapted from a Tolstoy novella.
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