Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2023

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Divinity Divinity
Divinity and The Animal Kingdom
The Animal Kingdom (Le Règne Animal) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Thomas Cailley; Writer: Thomas Cailley; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher)
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
Divinity (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Eddie Alcazar; Writer: Eddie Alcazar; Stars: Stephen Dorff, Moises Arias, Jason Genao, Karrueche Tran, Bella Thorne, Scott Bakula)
Two mysterious brothers abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery.
Infested (Vermines, Vermin) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Sébastien Vanicek; Writer: Florent Bernard, Sébastien Vanicek; Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Sofia Lesaffre, Théo Christine, Jérôme Niel, Lisa Nyarko)
Kaleb, passionate about exotic animals, accidentally lets his new eight-legged pet slip away.
The Invisible Fight (Nähtamatu võitlus) (Country: Estonia, Latvia, Greece, Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Rainer Sarnet; Writer: Rainer Sarnet; Stars: Ursel Tilk, Ester Kuntu, Indrek Sammul, Kaarel Pogga)
A kung-fu comedy set in an Orthodox Monastery in 1970s Soviet Union.
Mars Express (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Jérémie Périn; Writer: Jérémie Périn, Laurent Sarfati; Stars: Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie Bouvet, Sébastien Chassagne, Marthe Keller, Geneviève Doang, Thomas Roditi, Thierry Jahn, Serge Faliu, Eilias Changuel, Bárbara Del Sol, Nathalie Karsenty, Angéline Henneguelle, Charlotte Juniere)
In the near future, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. Animation.
Infested Infested
Infested and Superposition
Monolith (Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Matt Vesely; Writer: Lucy Campbell; Stars: Lily Sullivan)
Recently disgraced and desperate for a story, a young journalist holes herself up in her parents’ luxurious home and gets to work on the only job she can get - hosting a clickbait investigative podcast. Then she discovers a strange artefact and begins to convince herself it is evidence of an alien conspiracy.
Property (Propriedade) (Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Bandeira; Stars: Malu Galli, Zuleika Ferreira, Tavinho Teixeira, Samuel Santos, Edilson Silva)
When rebelling workers occupy Teresa’s family estate, she flees at the last minute into an armoured car. She is trapped, but refuses to negotiate.
She is Conann (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Bertrand Mandico)
Gender-flipped version of Conan The Barbarian.
Superposition (Country: Denmark; Year: 2023; Director: Karoline Lyngbye; Writer: Karoline Lyngbye)
A couple and their young son choose to move to a remote cabin in the Danish Forest for an experiment in off-grid living, with no human contact for a year. When they encounter another family in the forest, identical to themselves in almost every way, the fabric of their identities faces a test.
Triggered (Topakk, Trigger) (Country: Philippines; Year: 2023; Director: Richard Somes; Stars: Arjo Atayde, Julia Montes, Sid Lucero, Kokoy De Santos)
A Special Forces operative suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is discharged from the army due to his extreme medical condition. Finding employment as a security guard his world is turned upside down when he finds himself embroiled in a different kind of urban war after a young woman seeks his protection from a corrupt police death squad working for one of the most brutal drug cartels.
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