Shining diamond found on the street

Also yesterday it was the  a press conference presenting the LUX Film Prize.

The Festival is screening the three finalists for this year's LUX Prize:  Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland), Class Enemy by Rok Bicek (Slovenia) and Girlhood by Celine Sciamma (France).

This prize is awarded annually by the European Parliament.

Present at the event were the head of the European Parliament press office in Greece, Leonidas Antonakopoulos; emeritus professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and former European Parliament Member (MEP) Chrysoula Paliadeli; film critic  Michel Demopoulos — who is also a member of the film industry professionals comprising the selection panel — and actress Karidja Toure, who stars in Girlhood. 

George Krassakopoulos was the moderator of the event. 

Of the three movies, wich are in the screening program, yesterday we could watch the Grilhood, from Celine Sciamma.

The story is about teenagers. Black teengers. The movie is drawing a frame. No license for white personage in the movie. The movie doesnt use banal ways to show the integration. Great.

The protagonist is the 16 year old Vic. The role plays young actress, Karidja Toure. It is her first film, they were found her in the street and she was very excited to be a part of it.

„It is so good to wake up and know that I need to go for shooting. Because it is something special, it is not a morning when I’m going to the shcool.”- said Karidja Toure on the press conference.

The new experience were not just about having fun:

„The most important and the hardest scene was in the end, when I needed to cry. Celine needed it very much. But the scences with the girls, and when we were singing the Shine like a diamond, it was very funny.”

For the question as a teeneger and the actress of the movie, what she thinks about open ending, she said: „ Vic is just a teenager, she has a lot of time to decide what she want-need to do. Maybe she will go back to her family, or find a job……”

If the movie will winn the prize of this year, you will have oppurtunity to decide personally it has a happy end or not. 

Screen icon on the 55th TIFF

Hanna Schygulla gave a press conference on Thursday, 6 November 2014. With her, also were answering the questions, director Dimitri Eipides.

This year, the Festival is paying tribute to the emblematic artist, who will receive the Golden Alexander for her motion picture achievements. 

The press conference were not just about movies and festivals. We could know more about the actress, about her life and about the secret of the success. 

More details on http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/
And on Friday, 14 of November at 3 p.m. on Rodon FM.

Take what you need!

Today, on 5 November, The jury of the International Competition section of the 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival held a press conference.

This year’s jury president is Austrian director Götz Spielmann, who is joined by Rasha Salti, (festival programmer), Joanna Lapinska, (artistic director at the New Horizons Film Festival in Poland), Miroljub Vuckovic (head of international relations at Serbia’s Film Center) and producer Thanassis Karathanos.

Today also were a lot of people in the port and big lines infront of the cinemas. The visitors are not only greek speakers. There are a lot of foreign spectators.
„The festival is an oppurtunity to give us something, what we can not get enough from home.”- belives Miroljub Vuckovic.

Some members of the jury, were also judged before in other film festivals.
The president, Götz Spielmann was also a lot of times in competitions, and now he don’t think that he became an enemy for competitors: „I’m in the same side, I’m an artist.”

From the International Competition, on Thursday( November 06.) You can watch four movies: Perpetual Sadness, Forget Me Not, Int he Crosswind and Norway.

Details about the screening and the festival on http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/.