Between March 6 and 16 will take place the 27th edition of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, which has already begun to reveal its graphic image and a small advance of its program: these five documentaries reveal hidden truths after the current headlines will present enlightening stories and controversial themes. The unwavering policy of the State of Texas against abortion, a journalistic pilgrimage to northern Gaza in the midst of Israeli bombings and violent clashes, the vast propaganda campaign of the Russian authoritarian political system and the struggle of five women against digital control, are the chronicles of a selection of large documentaries in the framework of the 27th FIDT.
The state of Texas, in the United States, maintains an unwavering posture against abortion, which often endangers pregnant women. Zurawski against Texas (Open Horizons, European premiere), by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, enters us in the dispute between Amanda Zurawski, supported by a group of women and defended in court by lawyer Molly Duane, against the state of Texas.
En el transcurso de un año han muerto más periodistas en la guerra entre Israel y Gaza que en ningún otro conflicto desde que el Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas empezó a recopilar datos en 1992. Eyes of Gaza, de Mahmoud Atassi (Open Horizons) sigue a tres periodistas palestinos del norte de Gaza en un relato absolutamente desolador, dominado por el gris y el azul oscuro: el gris de los interminables escombros y cascotes de la destrozada Gaza y el azul oscuro de los chalecos antibalas que llevan los periodistas.
In the course of a year, more journalists have died in the war between Israel and Gaza than in any other conflict since the Committee for the Protection of Journalists began to collect data in 1992. Eyes of Gaza endless debris and helps of the shattered gaza and the dark blue of the bulletproof vests carried by the journalists.
In Mr. Nobody Against Putin, by David Borenstein and the co-director Pavel Talankin (special projections), we attend the attempts to show the vast propaganda campaign of Vladimir Putin after the large-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. During the first weeks of the invasion, a new policy of patriotic education is introduced trying to deal with your feeling of guilt, decide to document how war is transforming your school.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin, by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin.
Only on Earth, by Robin Petré (Open Horizons), is an enveloping and visually shocking trip to southern Galicia, one of the most vulnerable European areas to forest fires, which shows the wild beauty and the delicate balance that nature governs. Through the eyes of wild horses, which have ancestrally played a crucial role in fire prevention, a young cowboy, an experienced fire analyst, an equine veterinarian and a family of farmers in the front line, the film reflects on the fragile balance of our natural world and relations between humans and animals.
Teenagers who are connected to their smartphones more than 5 hours a day have 66% more likely to suffer suicidal symptoms than those who use it 1 hour a day. 44 US states have sued a goal, blaming it for the discomfort of an entire generation. For the first time in history, US state legislators and parents and Europe unite their strength to fight digital giants. The five protagonists of The Social Trap: 5 Women vs The Big 5, by Elisa Jadot (Open Horizons), try to make visible and neutralize the digital control that target, Tiktok, Snapchat, X and Discord.
On the other hand, we have also known the new image of the festival. The artist Dimitris Anastasiou has designed the posters of the 27th International Documentary Festival of Thessaloniki, which represent figures traveling through the landscape of Greece and also towards the cities of the future. We do not see their faces in any of the three paintings, since they look forward, forward. In the words of the artist: “The three paintings compose a three-fold narrative. If placed aligned, each serves as a continuation of the previous one. The two first (that depict a field of land and a provincial Greek town of the 1960s) allude to the Greek landscape. The third one (that portrays an absurd and imaginary city, whether utopian or dystopian) nods to Artificial Intelligence. Viewers, like time travelers, move within these landscapes”.
The Athenian painter has participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions in Greece, Russia and Chipre, as well as international fairs in Greece, Spain, Switzerland and Germany. His graphic novel entitled α = -α, published in Greek by Kaleidoscope Publications, and in English by the Jonathan Cape publishing house, has reaped great international success. This is not the first time that Dimitris Anastasiou collaborates with the festival, since he participated with his work Three murders (or perhaps none), a comic drawn by him, in the exhibition of the 63 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, titled Anaparastasi: Reconstruction, recreation, reconstitution, where twelve artists created works inspired by Theodoros Angelopoulos.
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