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Greece’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival Announces 2025 Competition Lineups
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival has announced its slate of films in three competition categories.
Stunningly filmed, visually captivating, and quite evocative, Kick-Off demonstrates how athletics has the power to break taboos, opposing the norms of traditionalism, while promoting gender quality in rigidly patriarchal societies, where women are left with no choice but to occupy the margins of solely inflexible, highly restrictive roles. With masterful aesthetics, cinematic power, and a splendidly fluid directorial approach, clear of any pretentiousness, this riveting film by Roser Corella and Stefano Obino, introduces us to a faraway world that is simultaneously so near us in our need for freedom, self-determination, and revolution. By capturing the complicated process of the library’s restoration, the bureaucratic hurdles, and the precariousness of the project in the face of political change, the filmmakers, Maia Lekow and Christopher King, simultaneously manage to explore another pivotal question; when are compromises justified in the wider debate on acknowledging and offering restitution for colonial heritage?
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