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‘My Stolen Planet’ Wins Thessaloniki Documentary Festival After Emotionally Charged Week of Protest, Defiance
Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi's 'My Stolen Planet' won the Golden Alexander award at the 26th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Iranian filmmaker Farahnaz Sharifi ‘s “ My Stolen Planet,” an intimate family portrait of life during Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on Sunday, bringing a close to an emotional and politically charged week in Greece’s second city. Accepting an honorary Golden Alexander award this week, Greek filmmaker Panayotis Evangelidis — whose work has long focused on the visibility of the queer community — praised the progress his country had made in the fight for LGBTQ rights, while also lamenting last weekend’s transphobic attack, insisting that “reality calls for us to take a stand before evil knocks on our own door.” Meanwhile, a separate controversy erupted amid protests from far-right groups over Psykou’s “Stray Bodies,” whose provocative poster — which features a bare-breasted pregnant woman nailed to a cross — was branded “blasphemous” by church officials and right-wing politicians in Greece.
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