Life from AI to the Greek country: Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025
Now, with the algorithms that dictate our choices and artificial intelligence leaked to our private life, our technology and concern about this issue – this year’s Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival was on the agenda. However, the TEMA was the least convincing about a hero in the festival opener. Piotr Winiewicz’s film, a AI The model (called Kaspar) was trained in the work of Werner Herzog, but although the German Auteur seems to be the narrator of the film, it does not look like it, nor seems to be something to do.
The rope of the festival is much more interesting AIAn inevitable intelligence, especially Henri Poulain’s belly film AINow is a judicial documentary that reveals a darker side of the technology everywhere. How to Poulain and his team AI Data study is often external to countries that are often faced with economic crises. Some references in the film is one of the data workers in the global South, who develops psychological problems and emotions of isolation after working with content containing verbal and physical abuse.
Five women acting against social media sites are the focus of meta, tiktok, x, snapchat and élisa jadot’s social trap: 5 women are examined from a false adolescent Instagram account created to show how young children and even young children are wisely exposed to young children. Jadot follows a lawyer who struggles to change the law that protects the law that protects the laws of digital technology that uses a three -person mother, a psychiatrist, a psychiatrist, a cyber criminal police officer and children as a pawn for snow.
Brittany Shyne’s first directing seeds were a remarkable discovery by bringing his international premiere here. Shyne’s film follows the story of a farmer in Georgia to describe the story of black American farmers and the ongoing wars for a fair game in the unfair agricultural system. The fascinating black-and-white photography is accompanied by a series of jazz rhythm and echoes of surgical harvesting machines-a transcendental image and vocal unity add an emergency reflection on ongoing systemic racism WE.
A year after his mother’s death, Lo in Lo, director Thanassis Vassilou, director of the film, returned to the empty athens of his childhood to solve a complex heritage. This deep personal article about family ties and neglect sees that he is involved in photographs, books and memories of a father who has no father. Despite the general grieving ambiance of the film, the touching relationship between the director and his mother and his grandfather grows in the 70s, while the film emotionally resonates. Vassilouou takes his camera to the streets of Athens to express collective trauma of the 1967-1974 military junta.
Another remarkable output in the program was the documentary of Grace Hughes-Hallett, who grew up as a girl named Grace Hughes-Hallett’s Kristi, but discovered shocking facts about her upbringing during her 19-year-old feminist college. Hughes-Hallett’s film examines the harmful long-term effects of a medical policy that promotes surgery on intersex children.
On the contrary, Gianluca Matarresese’s Gen_, the winner of the festival’s mermaid award, provided a fascinating hope for adults. In Milan’s Nigar State Hospital, the charismatic doctor, who is desperate for change, consults Maurizio Bini. The film includes thought -provoking conversations between Doctor Bini and his patients and discovering his love for music, nature and languages.
A special screening of David Borentein and Pavel Ilyich Talankin, who recently premiered in Sundance, presented a special screening against Mr. Putin in a country washed by propaganda. Shortly after Russia’s military Ukrainian invasion, the Kremlin implemented a federal policy that restructured the curriculum in schools and forced teachers to support the war. Pasha, a video and event coordinator in a primary school in Karabash, begins to record the changes applied and shows its effect on children for three years.
During the run of the festival, French director Nicolas Philibert was honored with the Golden Alexander Prize for his contribution to the cinema. The event in the Olympion venue, Adamant, Paris Day Care Center and the healing nature of art, including the Berlin Golden Bear Winning Documentary, including the latest films launched a spotlight. The festival also presented a full retrospective of Lauren Greenfield, a filmmaker and young culture chronicizer, who started with Thin (2006), a strong feature of the four girls who entered a special center in Florida and four girls who entered a special center in Florida.
Another yarn, the geography of the view: Non -Plan Greece was a popular program of rare and non -radar documentaries from rural Greece between 1950 and 2000.
It is a last word for Bull’s Heart, the last film of Eva Stefani, who was shown as a ongoing work last year but has been completed now. The choreographer is Dimitris Papaiioannou, Stefani’s film rehearsals and the transverse orientation tour, which took the stage in more than 30 cities from 2021 to 2022, including London.
Bull’s Heart, who was shot during Covid and went to the final show in San Francisco, follows his various construction difficulties and speeches with his dancers. Papaioannou’s art is shown as a special form of resistance to blend the dance and theater with striking stage sets and to inspire mythology and art history.
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival He ran to 6 to 16 March.
