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How Thessaloniki’s Industry Arm Stays True to Its Mission to ‘Nurture Talents’ and Remains a Vital Launching Pad for Region’s Filmmakers
The Agora celebrates two decades as one of the most influential meeting points for filmmakers from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region.
The forum returns this year with 15 projects from 17 countries, including a new feature from Romanian multi-hyphenate Adrian Sitaru (“ Fixer ”), as well as sophomore films from Kosovo’s Kaltrina Krasniqi (“ Vera Dreams of the Sea ”), Greece’s Yorgos Goussis (“Magnetic Fields”) and Lebanon’s Ahmad Ghossein (Venice Critics’ Week winner “All This Victory”). This year’s event is headlined by “Unorthodox” creator Anna Winger, who will appear in conversation with Rachel Eggebeen of Amplify Pictures (“Fleabag,” “100 Foot Wave”) to discuss the work of the showrunner in TV production and explore how a role created by the U.S. television biz can be adapted within the European context. As the Agora looks ahead to the future, Vergou points to initiatives like Bridge to the North — a program launched last year that hosts a different guest country from either Scandinavia or the Baltics — as indicative of how the industry event plans to evolve by constantly tinkering with a time-tested formula while broadening its horizons.
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