07/10/2015 - Featuring a Mircea Daneliuc tribute as this year's centrepiece, the section will highlight the latest from the gathering’s local area

Celebrating its 22nd year as a standalone section, the Balkan Survey programme will once again feature the latest from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival's (6-15 November) immediate vicinity, while at the same time turning its spotlight on the work of Mircea Daneliuc, a largely unacknowledged Romanian filmmaker who is, within his borders, considered as one of the country’s most important artists.

Eight features and one short selected by section curator Dimitri Kerkinos, and spanning from Daneliuc's 1975 debut with The Ride to his 1995 film The Snails’ Senator, will highlight the director's light touch and keen eye for social commentary and political satire. Daneliuc will be in Thessaloniki to introduce his films to the festival's audience.

Radu Jude's Silver Bear winner Aferim! [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Jude
film profile] and Laura Bispuri's Berlinale contender Sworn Virgin [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Laura Bispuri
film profile] will headline the section's list of features, which will this year include such titles as Dalibor Matanic's Un Certain Regard-awarded film The High Sun [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dalibor Matanic
interview: Tihana Lazovic
film profile], Emin Alper's Venice-awarded Frenzy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emin Alper
film profile] and Senem Tuzen's Thessaloniki Crossroads winner Motherland [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile].

Moreover, six shorts will be screened in the Balkan Survey section, where the Best Foreign-language Film Oscar submissions Honey Night [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Macedonia), Our Everyday Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ines Tanović
film profile] (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Mustang [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
film profile] (France) and Babai [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Visar Morina
film profile] (Kosovo) will also be featured.