Thessaloniki Head on Festival Opener ‘Maria,’ ‘Hope’ for New Generation of Greek Filmmakers and the Need to Showcase ‘Movies That Matter’

Despite blue skies over Greece’s second city ahead of the opening ceremony, the 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival kicks off Oct. 31 under clouds of uncertainty, with the war in Ukraine raging toward its three-year anniversary and the year-old Israel-Hamas conflict spilling into neighboring countries and threatening to engulf the entire Middle East. The U.S., meanwhile, […]