Thessaloniki Docs Festival Sets 2025 In Progress Projects

EXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki Worldwide Documentary Pageant’s industry-focused AGORA part has chosen 10 tasks from 12 nations for this 12 months’s Agora Docs in Progress sidebar alongside 4 tasks from Greece for the Agora Increase program. Scroll down for the total checklist of tasks.

The Agora Docs in Progress sidebar screens documentaries near completion by filmmakers from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean areas for patrons, co-producers, competition representatives, VOD platforms, and gross sales brokers. Latest titles from this system embody Savanna and the Mountain, which premiered in Quinzaine ultimately 12 months’s Cannes Movie Pageant; Diaries from Lebanon, which premiered in Berlin’s Panorama Dokumente sidebar; and IDFA 2022 title Notes on Displacement.

Throughout this system, the filmmakers are mentored by In-Docs program director and Scorching Docs programmer Gugi Gumilang, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker and editor Ema Ryan Yamazaki. Chosen titles embody Degree co-directed by Dutch artist Anna Berkhof and Spanish filmmaker Carlos Mora Fuentes. There may be additionally Six Letter From a River by Markos Holevas, who can also be Head of the Greek Movie Centre. 

The tasks compete for the next awards: The Two Thirty-5 (2|35) Award for post-production picture and sound and the Hellenic Movie and Audiovisual Middle’s Artistic Greece Award, which comes with a 3,000 EUR money prize and is handed to a Greek undertaking. There may be additionally the Neaniko Plano Subtitling Award and the 5,000 EUR Onassis Movie Award for a Greek undertaking collaborating within the Agora program. 

Elsewhere, Αgora Increase, the competition’s consultancy workshop, has chosen 4 tasks. Scroll right down to see the tasks. This system focuses on tasks from Greece. Agora Increase bestows two prestigious awards upon chosen tasks: The Steering Award by Paradiddle Footage (Denmark) and the Crew United Prize, which features a 5-year premium membership to Crew United’s on-line networking platform for audiovisual professionals in Europe. This 12 months’s counseling workforce options Ethnofest director Konstantinos Aivaliotis, producer Arkaitz Basterra, inventive producer Ieva Ūbele, and Zeynep Güzel, Head of Doc Station at Berlinale Skills. 

The Thessaloniki Worldwide Documentary Pageant will happen from March 6 – 16.

Agora Docs in Progress tasks:

DEAR FUTURE

Director: Christiana Cheiranagnostaki, Manufacturing: Christiana Cheiranagnostaki – Tartaruga Movies, Yorgos Tsourgiannis – Horsefly Movies, Co-production: Aylin Gökmen – A Vol d’Oiseau, Greece, Switzerland

FUTURE TENSES

Director: Christos Karakepelis, Author: Natasha Segou, Manufacturing: Maria Drandaki – Selfmade Movies, Co-production: Julie Paratian – SISTER Productions, Greece, France

HOME COURT

Administrators: Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez, Manufacturing: Yuri Averof, Rea Apostolides – Anemon Productions, Co-production: Maaike Neve, Esther Van Driesum – Bind Movie, Victor Ede – Cinephage, Boris Despodov – Arthouse Blockbusters, Greece, Netherlands, France, Bulgaria

JANA

Director: Mohammad Reza Azadi, Manufacturing: Ali Haider – Filmkhaana, Maaria Sayed – Draw4Films, Mohammad Reza Azadi – Sarv Movie, Pakistan, Italy, Iran

LEVEL

Administrators: Anna Berkhof, Carlos Mora Fuentes, Manufacturing: Carlos Mora Fuentes, Spain

MAGMA

Director: Mia Bendrimia, Manufacturing: Kira Simon-Kennedy – Nazar Movies, France, Algeria

SIX LETTERS FOR A RIVER

Director/Author: Markos Holevas, Manufacturing: Leonidas Liambeys – Lengthy Run Productions, Greece

A SONG WITHOUT HOME

Director: Rati Tsiteladze, Manufacturing: Olga Slusareva – ArtWay Movie, Georgia

TOWER, SUN AND THE SEVEN OF WANDS

Director: Tanya Vikhreva, Author: Aleksander Rodionov, Manufacturing: Maria Gavrilova – Marx Movie GE, Georgia

YOU DON’T DIE TWO TIMES

Director: Ager Oueslati, Manufacturing: Raouf Oueslati, Ager Oueslati – Taswir Manufacturing Version, Co-production: Thomas Kaske – Seera Movies, Algeria, Germany

Agora Increase tasks:

THE GROUNDSKEEPER

Route: Io Chaviara & Michalis Kastanidis, Manufacturing: Alexis Anastasiadis – FRENEL, Co-production: Io Chaviara & Michalis Kastanidis – Fabula Productions, Greece

MAGIC WHISTLE

Route: Avraam Goutzeloudis & Alexandros Katsis, Manufacturing: Photini Economopoulou – OhMyDog Productions, Greece

UNDERDOG

Route: Dimitris Delinikolas, Manufacturing: Photini Economopoulou – OhMyDog Productions, Co-production: Dimitris Delinikolas – Emptyfilm, Greece

WHO KILLED ZACKIE OH?

Route: Sofia Farantatou, Manufacturing: Maria Sidiropoulou – Thunderbird Manufacturing, Co-production: Nicolas Wadimoff, Annick Bouissou – AKKA movies, Greece, Switzerland