Theo Angelopoulos

In a warm, convivial and intimate atmosphere, the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival awards were bestowed on Sunday afternoon in one of the port's scenic warehouses. 

Four Golden Alexander Awards were bestowed as part of the four main competition categories. 

Acclaimed composer Eleni Karaindrou, whose soaring melodies have graced the silver screen for some three decades and who has performed at prestigious events and venues around the world, did a single show last year at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center just before the November lockdown.

"Landscape in the Mist" by late Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos has been voted among BBC Culture's 100 greatest foreign-language films.

The 1988 film, a coming-of-age story about two young souls in search of their father, won the 1988 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion.

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos’ Chair in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney.

Five years to the day after his death in a traffic accident while filming, acclaimed director, screenwriter and producer Theo Angelopoulos is being honored with an exhibition at the Kaplanon Gallery in Athens, featuring works inspired by his cinematic oeuvre.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven's 'Mustang,' an award-winning coming-of-age tale with strong female characters, was released on Oct 23 in Turkish theatersAlready seen by close to half a million people in France, Deniz Gamze Ergüven's eagerly anticipated debut film, "Mustang," premiered in Turkey on Oct. 23 following high praise on the festival circuit.

SOFIA - Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic will receive the Sofia award for contribution to the world cinematography at the 18th international film festival in Sofia which will take place from March 6 to 16.