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Thessaloniki International Film Festival

30 October – 9 November 2025

The 66th edition of the festival will run from October 30 to November 9. Full details have yet to be announced but there will be a grand tribute to plot twists as the retrospective.

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  • Bouchra
    Review preview for Bouchra

    This isn’t about rejection but about navigating the difficulties full acceptance bring.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A New York-based filmmaker writes an autobiographical script about a fictional double, while also appearing in animated form as a coyote moving through a city of furry creatures.
  • The Last One For The Road
    Review preview for The Last One For The Road

    Blends a shaggy dog story with a road trip.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke fiftysomethings with a “never skip the last drink” philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains.
  • Roqia
    Review preview for Roqia

    Supernatural possession is closely intertwined with the idea of radicalisation, evil jinn with distorted ideology.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    After a car crash, a man returns home to his family with his face covered in bandages, suffering from amnesia. As mysterious and threatening events accumulate, he fears that he is possessed.
  • La Gioia
    Review preview for La Gioia

    This is a movie layered with meaning. A lipstick smudge turns into stigmata, a kiss can make you float and strangle you at the same time.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known love beyond the suffocating grip of her parents, with whom she still lives. Her life shifts when she encounters Alessio, a student who uses his body as a means to get a few hundred euros to help his struggling mother.
  • Feels Like Home
    Review preview for Feels Like Home

    Feels Like Home avoids the usual traps of a thriller-chamber drama genre combination such as unnecessary repetitions that are the product of laying out the cards too soon.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 4 out of 5
    A woman is kidnapped by a family who claim that she is their missing daughter. She must impersonate this other woman in order to survive while she tries to find a way out of her nightmare.
  • Rose Of Nevada
    Review preview for Rose Of Nevada

    Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
  • OBEX
    Review preview for OBEX

    If you’re looking for a witty and heartfelt story with characters you can care about, you may find yourself falling head over heels.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.
  • Pillion
    Review preview for Pillion

    The constant contrast is the trick, which later extends to the emotional stakes.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A man is taken on as a motorbike club's leader's submissive but begins to question that role.
  • Kokuho
    Review preview for Kokuho

    The performances are thrilling, emotionally direct and physically exacting, but they function as narrative instruments too.

    Edin Custo · 4.5 out of 5
    A boy born into a family of gangsgters is taken in by a kabuki theatre actor and finds a talent for the craft.
  • All That's Left Of You
    Review preview for All That's Left Of You

    Dabis controls revelation with discipline, letting meaning accumulate rather than announcing itself, so that what finally emerges feels earned rather than engineered.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.

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