Balkans. Thessaloniki. Human Rights. Youth Participation.
For our last interview from the festival, we met director @valentina_maurel, who came in Thessaloniki to present her beautiful movie “I Have Electric Dreams”. Our volunteer @giovannistanislao talked with her about childhood and adulthood, about the way to become an adult and, of course, her movie and the main character, Eva. Take a look! Interview: Giovanni StanislaoSound: Carolin […]
We met Simon Reith, director of Summers Scars, presented during the 63th Thessaloniki Film Festival. They talked about his movie but also about the difference between a short and a long feature film, about fantasy and genre movies. Take a look! All out interviews from this year festival: Aida Begić- A BalladEmin Alper- Burning DaysValentina […]
A story about a woman who leaves her country with two of her sons in order to have a better life in France. At the end of the 80’s, an Ivorian woman leaves her country, but life in France is more complex than she thinks. Also, even if she tries her best, she makes many […]
In today’s interview, our volunteer Giovanni Stanislao talked with “A Ballad” director Aida Begić. They discussed about female represantation, bosnian cinema, comedy and a new approach on arthouse cinema to reach a larger audience. Take a look! The movie was presented during the 63th Thessaloniki Film Festival. Audio: Yusuf Taskiran All out interviews from this […]
For Tiff Encounters, our volunteer Giovanni Stanislao had a conversation with turkish director Emin Alper. They talked about his movie, Burning Days, presented in this year Thessaloniki Film Festival, but also about influences, turkish cinema, rising populism and arthouse films. Sound: Yusuf TaskiranTake a look! All our interviews from this year festival: Aida Begić- A […]
Ukraine. In a temporary shelter for children who are waiting to go back to their family or to be brought to an orphanage, we follow the stories of a few of these kids and their personal events.They live in a building that is only a place of passage, they are not supposed to stay there […]
“I really wanted to make a movie about the media, showing how we use and consume videos and footage from the war front”, the director Florian Hoffmann explained during the Q&A session after the screening. And his purpose is clear from the very first scene, when we follow a group of students to whom the […]
Every year, the Thessaloniki Animation Festival is organized in the city of Thessaloniki. It showcases artists and animated film enthusiasts from the Balkans. 2020 is no exception. Despite the current health crisis, the festival will take place. From the 22nd of October to the 30th of October, you will be able to access online the […]
Everyone who reads this blog, can easily relate to the assumption on which Ulrich Köhler’s and Henner Winckler’s movie A voluntary year is based. We are all familiar to leave everything behind and seize one of our possible futures. And the movie is exactly about that. The main character Jette is a twenty-something German girl […]
1997, the Algerian Civil War, the social climate becomes more conservative, new bans are set by the radicals. They want to make women to cover up, literally from head to toe. Women are forbidden from going to work and from being educated at university. If not, fundamentalists are ready to show up and violently convince […]
