A Port City’s Cinema Dreams: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Turns 20

The boundaries between these two genres [fiction and documentary] are porous.

One must feel a documentaristic texture in fiction and create characters in documentaries.

– Agnès Varda It’s at once deceiving and heartening to attend a film festival in a gloriously beautiful place that appears to be thriving, not only with arts and culture galore, but what appears to be a robust consumer culture as well — plenty of high-end shops, bars, restaurants and clubs filled to capacity.

Especially when the sun goes down, in typical Balkan fashion, everyone comes out to promenade, eat, smoke, drink and debate until the […]

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