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Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-11-19
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[01] 46th Thessaloniki Cinema Festival opens
[01] 46th Thessaloniki Cinema Festival opens
The 46th Thessaloniki Cinema Festival was inaugurated on Friday night
in the presence of Deputy Culture Minister Petros Tatoulis, Deputy
Culture Minister George Orfanos, Macedonia-Thrace Minister Nikos
Tsiartsionis, Thessaloniki Cinema Festival President Georges Corraface,
Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos and Thessaloniki Prefect
Panayiotis Psomiadis.The festival began with the screening of the film
"The hell within me", of Bosnian film director Danic Tanovic. Declaring
the start of the festival, Deputy Culture Minister Tatoulis termed the
festival "as the central screen of Greek cinema" and Thessaloniki as
the place where it was born.
Macedonia-Thrace Minister Tsiartsionis in his address referred to the
important role of the festival which "constitutes an event which
greatly contributes to the development of the region and to the
establishment of a suitable climate of cooperation in all sectors."
Addresses were also made by Thessaloniki Cinema Festival President
Corraface, the festival's artistic director Despina Mouzaki and
Thessaloniki Mayor Papageorgopoulos.
It is expected that more than 220 films will be screened during the
festival which will last until November 27.
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