Summary
- The 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival will screen 53 Greek films. Nineteen will have their premiere at this edition.
- Nine entries feature across the international competitions.
- Twenty-three Greek films will offer adapted subtitles.
Event Details
With 53 Greek films on the programme, 19 premieres and nine entries across its international competitions, the 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival puts Greek cinema firmly in the spotlight.
The festival takes place on 5–15 November 2026. Its Greek Cinema programme includes 26 feature-length and 27 short films. For directors, cinematographers and production teams, the screenings offer a chance to present new work to audiences and film professionals.
The films in the international competitions
The International Competition includes A Whole Person Almost by Efthymis Kosemund-Sanidis, A Day in the Life of Jo: Phaedra Chapter by Jacqueline Lentzou, and Titanic Ocean by Konstantina Kotzamani.
Meet the Neighbors+ features Elena’s Decision by Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Crucified Again by Thodoris Papadoulakis, alongside two Cypriot productions with Greek co-production: The Lion at My Back by Tonia Mishiali and Hold Me by Myrsini Aristidou.
Film Forward features Dust Particles by Argyris Germanidis and The Judas Tree by Christos Chouliaras. The total of nine competition entries includes the two Cypriot co-productions.
New filmmaking voices
In A Whole Person Almost, a debt-ridden young man travels to a remote island hoping to inherit from his estranged father, a doctor. He encounters the community his father served and meets a local woman who dreams of leaving. Inspired by several real incidents, the film stars Orfeas Avgoustidis, Maria Nafpliotou, Giorgos Benos, Dimitris Lalos and Renia Louizidou.
The spread across three competitions provides an opportunity to discover different approaches to storytelling and form. For filmmakers and cinematographers, that makes the line-up a useful occasion to examine how emerging directors construct characters and use locations to shape their work.
Restoration and accessibility
The programme also highlights Eva (1953), directed by Maria Plyta, the first restored Greek film to screen in the Cannes Classics section in 2026. Its restoration was carried out by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, with the partners credited by the festival.
Accessibility is another substantial part of the announcement: 23 Greek films will screen with adapted dialogue-based subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. After the event, the festival plans to provide processed subtitles and audio description to producers for potential reuse in future screenings and distribution.
The event also builds on the city’s year-round film culture, with the Thessaloniki Film Festival cinemas having reopened for the new season on 1 October.
The 26 feature-length films by section
The Festival groups the films as follows. The Meet the Neighbors+ selection includes two Cypriot films with Greek co-production.
International Competition
- A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra — Jacqueline Lentzou
- A Whole Person Almost — Efthimis Kosemund-Sanidis
- Titanic Ocean — Konstantina Kotzamani
Meet the Neighbors+
- Elena’s Shift — Stefanos Tsivopoulos
- Recrucified — Theo Papadoulakis
- The Lion at My Back — Tonia Mishiali
- Hold Onto Me — Myrsini Aristidou
>>Film Forward
- Particles of Dust — Argyris Germanidis
- Under the Judas Tree — Christos Houliaras
Other First Run premieres
- Apart — Stelana Kliris
- The Megalomaniacs — Spiros Stathoulopoulos
- Angel Downtown — Freddy Vianellis
- Worthy — Christos Georgiou
- The Gleaner — Panagiotis Rappas
- Game Theory — Karolos Zonaras
- Foreign Blood — Tonis Lykouressis
- Don’t Forget the Sunshine — Marco Papadopoulos
- Alexander the Great and the Accursed Dragon — Dimos Avdeliodis
- The Flaw — Theophilos Papastylianos
A Second Viewing
- Uchronia — Fil Ieropoulos
- Maralinga Maningrida Mantamaru — Alexandros Voulgaris (The Boy)
- Last Call — Sherif Francis
Restorations and special screenings
- Eve (1953) — Maria Plyta
- Happy Beginning (1954) — Dinos Dimopoulos
- Sea of Glass (2026) — Alexis Alexiou
- The Classic Masterpiece (2026) — Renos Haralambidis
All 27 Greek short films
The shorts are selected from the award-winning films of the Drama International Short Film Festival.
- (HOME) — Nellie Evaggelidou
- Find Fenia — Lila Barba
- Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection) — Alexandra Matheou
- Holterline — Alexandra Ntelitheou
- Meltdown — Evgenia Papazisi
- Multi Family Garage Sale — Jacques Simha
- Shift — Ioanna Skylogianni
- The Great Organ — Roxanne Krimizi and Michalis Kimonas
- Wheel to Live — Vicky Anastasiadou
- Strays — Anastasia Gkivalou
- Amaranth — Anthie Daoutaki
- From 1 to Blue — Sofia Priovolou
- Arkansas — Yannis Karpouzis
- Game Farm — Vasilis Georgoulas
- Desert, She — Ioanna Digenaki
- Loutropolis — Anna Papadopoulou
- Good Friday — Loukia Tzortzopoulou
- Remember Julia — Diamantis Anastasiadis
- A Moment in Her Life — Nicolas Costes
- My Cousin’s Wedding — Silva Tsoumana
- The Dog — Konstantinos Demis
- Horizon — Afroditi Tavri
- Before the Meal Got Cold — Alkistis Kafetzi
- Solountrania — Akis Stavropoulos
- The Monsters of the City — Yorgos Vlassis
- The Rooster’s Gospel — Thanos Tokakis
- Hot Wax — Krysianna Papadakis
What we think
The significance of this programme goes beyond its numerical scale. Nineteen premieres give Greek production teams a meaningful opportunity to put new work in front of an audience and begin a conversation about their artistic decisions. For independent filmmakers, this direct encounter can matter just as much as a competition berth.
It also matters that the competition films are distributed across different strands. That creates space for distinct cinematic styles and approaches rather than judging every film against a single set of expectations.
Accessibility deserves attention from the start of the filmmaking process, not only when a film reaches a festival. Making captioning and audio-description assets available to producers afterwards could help the work remain accessible beyond one screening, extending its reach to more viewers.
Frequently asked questions
When is the 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival?
It takes place in Thessaloniki on 5–15 November 2026.
How many Greek films are on the programme?
Fifty-three films: 26 features and 27 shorts.
How many Greek films are premieres?
According to the festival, 19 Greek films will have their first screening at this edition.
