The 58^th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), running from 2-12 November, has announced the first part of its selections, including the Balkan Survey section, a full retrospective of Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, and tributes to female directors Ildikó Enyedi and Ida Lupino.

The 24^th edition of Balkan Survey, curated by TIFF’s programmer, Dimitris Kerkinos, will showcase ten of the most celebrated Balkan feature films of the year and five shorts, including many festival favourites. The former Yugoslavia is represented by the entries for the Best Foreign-language Film Academy Award from Serbia (Bojan Vuletić’s well-travelled and widely awarded Requiem for Mrs. J. [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bojan Vuletić
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intervista: Hanna Slak
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intervista: Blagoj Veselinov
intervista: Gjorce Stavreski
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intervista: Călin Peter Netzer
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intervista: Andrei Creţulescu
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intervista: Dawid Ogrodnik
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intervista: Ilian Metev
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intervista: Semih Kaplanoğlu
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This year’s Balkan Survey tribute, “From Words to Images: Balkan Literature and Cinema”, will screen 11 classic films from the region that are based on important literary works. Some of the titles included are Vulo Radev’s The Peach Thief (1964), Aleksandar Petroviċ’s Three, and Stone Wedding by Mircea Veroiu and Dan Piţa (1972).

Hungary’s Ildikó Enyedi, whose On Body and Soul [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ruben Östlund
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