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The 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) launched virtually on Thursday, as the opening film was projected onto a screen in an empty room in the Olympion theater due to the coronavirus. Organizers of TIFF recognized the importance of film...

This year the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year, but organizers have pledged to look forward into the future, rather than looking back into the past. The gala anniversary will also feature the addition...

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival will be running its 57th edition from November 3-11. The line up of talent to be showcased at the flagship Olympian cinema will start off with the hit film Paterson which recently premiered at Cannes...

The winner of the 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival was Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson with his film 'Rams'. Hákonarson wrote and directed the film. The movie celebrates the bonds between man and animal, especially in isolated areas, and is based with authenticity on...

The 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival was completed yesterday in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece. The festival ended with the traditional award ceremony, celebrating the best films of the year. “Perpetual Sadness,” directed by Mexican Jorge Perez Solano, took the...

The 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival began with films and ceremonies in the Olympion Theater, on Friday the 4th until Saturday the 12th of November. The opening film of the festival is "The Descendants" the fifth film directed by Greek-American...

The 52nd International Film Festival proudly announces the participating Greek films. More than 20 films will participate in individual sections (International Competition, Greek films 2011, Greek Co, Special Screenings, Market), and among them, twelve are going to make their debut...

The 51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival will begin on December 3rd with the film "127 hours" by Danny Boyle.  It is a true, shocking real life story. The director of the Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” based his production...

The Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) is a commercial exhibition event of great importance in Greece and Southeastern Europe, taking place annually in Thessaloniki, Greece. This year, the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center will host the from September 9th to September 17th. Thousands...

Kostas Voutsas, one of the best actors of his generation and an icon for Greek cinema and television, dies early on Wednesday. He was 88. Voutsas was rushed to the Attikon hospital on Friday, February 7, and admitted to the...

Greek film director and screenwriter Stavros Tsiolis died early on Tuesday in Athens, according to a post his family shared on Facebook. He was 82 years of age. Tsiolis, best known in Greece for his film "Women Can Wait," was a...

The 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, running from November 1 to November 11, will present a large tribute to the Greek queer cinema, with a selection of 38 short and feature films dating from the late 1960's to the...

Thessaloniki has just wrapped up its 58th International Film Festival and this year’s celebration was again filled with stellar selections from the works of new and first-time directors around the world. “Ravens” directed by Jens Assur won the Golden Alexander,...

The idea of building an attractive environment for Hollywood studios to shoot movies in Greece has been floating around in the Greek government for more than a year. Now that the country has lost the production of Mamma Mia 2...

The Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) is the most important international annual fair for the entire Balkan region and the largest in Greece. Thousands of visitors from Greece and across the world, flock to Greece’s second city to be entertained, to...