Thessaloniki’s Film Fest Turns 50!

Soul searching is a necessary process when you reach a certain age of maturity. Greece’s most important cinematic event in the cultural calendar of the year, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, reached this point and is asking itself and followers as it turns fifty: Why cinema now? It’s more of a rhetorical question of course to prepare us all for the idea that the festival in the northern Greek is not just about watching movies. It is rather an occasion for thought, dialogue, communication, interaction in a jubilee reaching its peak from 13 to 22 of November.
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