Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

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The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is a film festival specialising in documentary films which takes place in Thessalonika.

The festival was launched in March 1999 and was inspired by Dimitri Eipides. It has benefited from the local public's enthusiastic response - 22,000 plus admissions were registered last year - and from the extensive coverage in the local and international press.

The main programme focuses on documentaries that explore the social and cultural developments in the world, introducing at the same time a number of new side sections and events based on important works by new documentary makers. Films of the main programme will be candidates for the Fipresci and also the Audience Awards.

The Festival attracts a film-going public which discovers, year after year, images of the new century, new film ecritures, new directors, new technologies, but also representatives of the film world who find here a reliable organisation, appropriate for promoting their work. The event revolves around the standard sections: stories to tell, views of the world the recording of memory, and portraits but every year's programme is being enriched by several other sections.

The images of 21st Century make a date every March in Thessaloniki with a film-going public that seeks an in-depth reading of the human landscape through a journey into the art of documentary.