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‘My Stolen Planet’ Wins Top Prize At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival; Controversial ‘Stray Bodies’ Earns Festival Recognition
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival has awarded prizes to 'My Stolen Planet,' the controversial 'Stray Bodies,' and other films.
Last week, Deadline premiered the trailer for the film directed by Elina Psykou, described as “a road movie about unvoluntary trips of women crossing EU borders to evade the restrictive laws of their home countries, where religion and politics have more say over their body than themselves.” As Deadline reported, the festival reacted with “anger and repugnance” to the incident on March 9, in which a crowd of 150-200 youths hurled abuse at two nonbinary people in Aristotelous Square, then threw bottles at the pair and chased them into a nearby restaurant. The members of this year’s jury are: Dimitris Papanikolaou, Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Oxford; Simon(e) van Saarloos, author and curator; Shane Smith, documentary consultant and festival strategist
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