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Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival Underway As Event’s Leaders Acknowledge Fraught 2025 Context: “The Cries Of Hate Multiply”
The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary is underway in Greece, as festival organizers highlight threats to freedom of expression worldwide.
The festival opened Thursday night with About a Hero, directed by Piotr Winiewicz and “narrated by Werner Herzog” (quotes belong around that part of the description because the Teutonic-accented voiceover sounds like the famed German-born filmmaker, but as the Thessaloniki program notes, “our narrator… is not who he seems.”). In addition, TiDF 2025 will showcase several AI-themed short documentaries; the festival has also partnered with OpenDocs on “a pioneering program of worldwide scope, offering support, financing, AI tools and consulting services to artists from all over the world. Vera Krichevskaya’s Connected, world premiering in the Open Horizons section, “follows Dr. Dmitry Zimin who stood alone as the primary public financial supporter of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, risking everything to champion change in his homeland.”
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