This year's festival will run from October 31 to November 10. The full line-up has yet to be announced but Panos H Koutras will receive the Golden Alexander.

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Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
Heretic
Heretic
Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.
Toxic
Toxic
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
Holy Electricity
Holy Electricity
When young Gonga and his uncle Bart stumble upon a case of rusty crosses in a scrapyard, they repurpose them into neon crucifixes and start selling them in their neighbourhood.
Santosh
Santosh
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Misericordia
Misericordia
A stranger’s appearance exposes the weird behaviour and the secret desires of a village's residents.
Vittoria
Vittoria
A hairdresser from Naples with three loving sons and a devoted husband risks everything to pursue her dream of having a daughter.
Pooja, Sir
Pooja, Sir
When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.
My Favourite Cake
My Favourite Cake
A 70-year-old decides to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
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Thessaloniki International Film Festival Features

'I’m still enjoying the process of talking about Julie and advocating for her silence'
Leonardo van Dijl on Belgian Oscar nominee Julie Keeps Quiet
'I wanted it to be meditative and poetic'
Thea Hvistendahl on her very different approach to zombies in Handling The Undead
Life lessons
Shuchi Talati on rebellion and relationships in school-set drama Girls Will Be Girls
Marriage of creativity
Husband and wife Deepak Rauniyar and Asha Magrati on their latest collaboration Pooja, Sir
Growing pains and gains
Saulė Bliuvaitė on developing and shooting Golden Leopard winner Toxic
'I think a country without movies is a country without memory'
César Díaz on bringing Mexico 86 to the screen
'I was imagining my mother in a similar situation'
Bérénice Bejo on why Mexico 86 reminded her of her own family
Movie metamorphoses
Ramon and Silvan Zürcher on change in The Sparrow In The Chimney and their filmmaking evolution
Running with the wolves
Annick Blanc on asking people to open their eyes with Hunting Daze
Collaboration and fighting dictatorship
Director Emin Alper and producer Yorgos Tsourgiannis on their working relationship
The joy of research
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala on Maria Hofstätter, the Brothers Grimm and The Devil's Bath
Breaking the mould
Memoir Of A Snail director Adam Elliot on creating textured underdogs and emotional conflict
Bigfoot challenge
David and Nathan Zellner on turning a myth into a reality for Sasquatch Sunset
Tuning into grief
Composer on collaboration and framing in Handling The Undead
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