Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival will be held from Thursday 6th to Sunday 16th March 2025 both in physical spaces and online.




A total of 261 documentaries will be screened as part of the 27th TiDF, among which an impressive number of 72 world, 40 international and 11 European premieres.

The Festival will take place in its time-honored home ground, the movie theaters Olympion and Pavlos Zannas at the Olympion complex, the movie theaters Frida Liappa, Tonia Marketaki, John Cassavetes and Stavros Tornes at the Port of Thessaloniki, as well as Makedonikon theater. Moreover, the audience will have the chance to watch movies online, through the Festival’s digital platform, online.filmfestival.gr.

The opening of the 27th TiDF will take place on Thursday March 6th 2025, with the film About a Hero by Piotr Winiewicz, an adaptation of a script written by an AI trained on Herzog’s body of work. The Festival will call it a wrap on Sunday March 16th 2025, with Shoshannah Stern’s Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore that unravels the story of Marlee Matlin, the first ever deaf recipient of an Academy Award for acting.

The 27th TiDF hosts a grand tribute titled AI, an Inevitable Intelligence, a tribute on the acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, and also features a spotlight to the renowned documentary filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, who will attend the Festival.

Check out the full programme here.

All films are screened with Greek and English subtitles, unless otherwise stated.