The latest works by prominent documentary filmmakers, Oscar-nominated films and intimate portraits of renowned artists are some of the highlights of the 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, set to be showcased in the country’s top documentary gathering this March. This will be Dimitri Eipides’ last time at Thessaloniki, as the outgoing artistic director and pioneering leader of the documentary festival has already announced that he will be stepping down after this year’s edition. 

Racing Extinction, Oscar-winning director Louie Psihoyos’ new documentary, will depict the horror of the mass extinction of endangered animal species, while Arto Halonen’s White Rage will focus on school bullying, with records of a victim’s poignant testimony of childhood trauma, rage and violence.

In Claire Simon’s The Woods Dreams Are Made of [+leggi anche:
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Adam Benzine’s and Courtney Marsh’s two short documentary Oscar contenders will be screened during the 18th TDF, with the former’s Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah chronicling the titular French filmmaker’s struggle as he made his milestone Holocaust documentary Shoah, and the latter’s Hyperlink, introducing us to a Vietnamese Agent Orange-afflicted teenager determined to be a professional artist.

Moreover, Amy Berg’s Janis: Little Girl Blue will present a rocking portrait of legend Janis Joplin, Aaron Brookner’s Uncle Howard [+leggi anche:
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