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Thessaloniki International Film Festival · 2026

Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2026

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8 films · 3 reviews

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As In Heaven, So On Earth (Come In Cielo, Così In Terra)

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A film unlike anything else you’ll see this year.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
1275 a.C. - A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments. Only a young amanuensis will try to free her at any cost. 2011 a.C. - A couple of young teenagers, Cris and Jessy, go missing in the woods while a young woman comes out from the middle of nowhere.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2020; Director: Francesco Erba; Writer: Francesco Erba; Stars: Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, Ania Rizzi Bogdan, Federico Cesari, Daniele Di Matteo, Philippe Guastella, Margherita Mannino)

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Be My Cat: A Film For Anne

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It's difficult to know how much acting is involved in this film - and that, of course, is part of what makes it work.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A filmmaker sets out to impress the actress Anne Hathaway, with disturbing results.

(Country: Romania; Year: 2015; Director: Adrian Tofei; Writer: Adrian Tofei; Stars: Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe)

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Evil (Το κακό)

Bulldozers digging at a construction site in the heart of Athens uncover a cave–a cave that appears on no blueprint or map.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2005; Director: Yorgos Noussias; Writer: Yorgos Noussias; Stars: Meletis Georgiadis, Pepi Moschovakou, Argiris Thanasoulas, Stavroula Thomopoulou, Mary Tsoni, Andreas Kontopoulos, Nikos Sabalis, Yannis Katsambas) , Trailer

Idyll (Idila)

Slovenia's first true horror film opens like a fashion shoot and ends like a folk nightmare.

(Country: Slovenia; Year: 2015; Director: Tomaž Gorkič; Writer: Tomaž Gorkič; Stars: Nina Ivanišin, Nika Rozman, Lotos Vincenc Šparovec, Sebastian Cavazza, Jurij Drevenšek, Manca Ogorevc, Damjana Černe, Ajda Smrekar, Liza Marija Grašič, Damir Leventič) , Trailer

Jinn: Evil Eye (Üç Harfliler: Nazar)

In Turkish folklore, you never say their real name out loud: you call them “the three-lettered ones” instead, out of respect, or fear, or both.

(Country: Türkiye; Year: 2024; Director: Melodi Tözüm; Writer: Melodi Tözüm; Stars: Elçin Atamgüç, Hatice İrkin, Gülderen Güler, Elis Sezgin, Berfin Naz Uzar, Alperen Çavdar, Batuhan Gülcemal, Melike Balçık)

Motherwitch

Eleni, a painter in Cyprus in 1882, reaches into the shadows to resurrect her lost children, but instead summons the ancient Kalikantzari of Cypriot lore. She must now confront the storm of her grief and anger, and lift the curse.

(Country: Cyprus, North Macedonia, US; Year: 2026; Director: Minos Papas; Writer: Evripidis Dikaios, Nikolas Kouroumtzis, Minos Papas; Stars: Margarita Zachariou, Miltos Yerolemou, Danae Katsameni, Dimitri Andreas, Athos Antoniou, Marina Makris)

T.T. Syndrome (T.T. Sindrom)

Nobody leaves this bathhouse clean.

(Country: Yugoslavia; Year: 2002; Director: Dejan Zečević; Writer: Dejan Zečević; Stars: Sonja Damjanović, Nikola Đuričko, Branko Bane Vidaković, Nebojša Glogovac, Feđa Stojanović, Dušica Žegarac, Ljubinka Klarić, Boris Komnenić, Džemail Maksut)

You Won't Be Alone

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It presents a radically different cinematic language, childlike, initially amoral, lyrical.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep-seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

(Country: UK, Serbia, Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Goran Stolevski; Writer: Goran Stolevski; Stars: Alice Englert, Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimoska, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Arta Dobroshi, Verica Nedeska, Irena Ristic, Predrag Vasic, Nikola Ristanovski, Kamka Tocinovski, Daniel Kovacevic, Djordje Misina, Djordje Zivadinovic Grgur)

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