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Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival · 2024

Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival 2024

Special Screenings

Programme

3 films · 3 reviews

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Agent Of Happiness

Review preview for Agent Of Happiness

As the surveys continue, different ideas of happiness emerge along with moments of shared humanity.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Amber is one of the many agents working for the Bhutanese government to measure people’s happiness levels among the remote Himalayan mountains. But will he find his own along the way?

(Country: Bhutan, Hungary; Year: 2024; Director: Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó)

Full review See: Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó on their latest documentary collaboration

Navalny

Review preview for Navalny

And so we get a very engaging, often suspenseful movie in Navalny, a record of the dangers that come with pissing off an authoritarian regime.

Jeremy Mathews · 3.5 out of 5
Profile of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in the wake of survival of an assassination attempt.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Roher; Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Dasha Navalnaya, Zakhar Navalny, Mariya Pevchikh, Christo Grozev, Leonid Volkov, Kira Yarmysh, Georgy Alburov, Anna Biryukova, Fidelius Schmid, Tim Lister, Clarissa Ward)

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Pictures Of Ghosts (Retratos Fantasmas)

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These are the nooks and crannies where the ghosts still hang out, whistling in the dark, eager to haunt anew a crowd.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
A portrait of the city of Recife, re-envisioned in its 20th Century glory through the remains of the cinema palaces which were central to its busy social milieu.

(Year: 2023; Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Full review See: Kleber Mendonça Filho in conversation on Pictures Of Ghosts, the films of Agnès Varda, Manoel de Oliveira and Martin Scorsese