Μake us preferred on Google It’s always a good day when one of Greece’s most-anticipated film festivals is underway!
Thessaloniki is officially in cinephile mode since this past weekend kickstarted TiFF. Movies from all over the world, highly-acclaimed and newly-released, are screening throughout the week — but that’s not all TiFF has to offer.
TO VIMA International Edition highlights some of the parallel events, art exhibitions and workshops to put time aside for during the 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
TiFF Talks: A masterclass with filmmaker Renos Haralambidis on the grand return of analog
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In the aptly titled TiFF talk “The Analog World Strikes Back”, acclaimed Greek actor and filmmaker Renos Haralambidis urges young creatives to slow down. The beauty of analog lies in that necessity to take things one step at a time, think and explore your medium rather than automate every step you can.
The creator of cult favorites like Cheap Smoke and The Heart of The Beast invites the audience to find freedom through flawed or even “inconvenient” film practices.
09/11/2026 at 17:00
Venue: Ypsilon, Edesis 5, Thessaloniki 54625
Admission is free and people will be accommodated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Event will be held in Greek.
Exhibitions to watch: HU/هُوَ
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“Welcome to the Desert III” directed and conceptualized by Oliver Laxe is debuting for the first time outside of Spain, and brings with it spirituality and an air of mystery.
The work grew out of the creative process, research and recordings behind Laxe’s film Sirāt, which received the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The audiovisual installation explores the relationship between the physical and the divine through Islamic spiritual symbolism.
“Welcome to the Desert III” will be exhibited until the end of TiFF, namely November 15.
Venue: MOMUS Museum Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Pier A, Thessaloniki Port)
Open 10:00 – 22:00
Admission is free
Premiere of The Classic Masterpiece by Renos Haralambidis
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Following his talk on analog filmmaking in the afternoon, Haralambidis’ newest project will be premiering in this year’s festival. The Classic Masterpiece centers around a film critic who gets the chance to make his first movie from a screenplay he wrote when he was younger. The catch? It needs to be a classic.
The film is described as an “existential comedy” touching on themes of time, redundancy and our innate inability to escape who we once thought we would become.
Screening at 19:00 in Cine Apollon, Sarantaporou 4
Picture to Pick: Game Theory, dir. Karolos Zonaras
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A modern film that’s got it all, including AI meddling in affairs of the heart!
Our protagonist, the 40-year old Tom, is emotionally contorted to a degree you wouldn’t believe. He seeks the love and approval of his father while also sleeping with his father’s wife, and is jealous of what I understand is his half-brother? In a moment of weakness and existential crisis, he gets a chatbot to guide his choices through this maze of sentimental madness.
A weird premise that brings about curiosity as to how it will ultimately unfold.
Screening at 22:00 in Pavlos Zannas theater.
