Balkans. Thessaloniki. Human Rights. Youth Participation.
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 […]
It is said that “whatever is perceived as real may be real in its consequences”. This claim is -I believe- strongly related to mental health and I cannot easily think of other such insightful and profound phrases. The thing is that every single individual is unique and, whereas we may know a lot about the […]
A fight against diseases, family troubles, drug addiction, tears, mental illnesses but also pure love, youthness, joyness, lightheartedness… Babyteeth is the new movie of the australian director Shannon Murphy, presented at the last “Mostra Internazionale dell’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia”. A troubled love story The plot is a teenager love story between Milla, a young girl […]
Agnieszka is out of town, so boys are talking about weird stuff ? I mean … Sci-Fi stuff. Movies, books, dreams, laws of robotics + cool music. Spend hour of your life in our awesome company. Random Radio team.
Remember: today, on 27 January, it is International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. We can use movies as a way to spread information. Here, I suggest ten movies to watch about this topic.
From the 1st till the 11th of November, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) took place. Balkan Hotspot was there to talk to some of the movie makers. This third and final article is about our encounter with Yannis Veslemes, one of the directors of the movie The Field Guide to Evil.
From the 1st till the 11st of November, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) took place. Balkan Hotspot was there to talk to some of the movie makers. This second article is about our encounter with Meryem Benm’Barek, the director of the movie Sofia (2018).
Today the 59th edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival starts. The Festival takes place from the 1st till the 11th of November and film highlights from all over the world are waiting for you. To guide you through this colourful spectacle, we collected some of the Festival’s highlights for you!
