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Photo Op: Director of ATTENBERG/ Greek foodie Athina Rachel Tsangari

You zig. I zag. You go to Toronto. I go to Montreal.

50th TIFF- Exhibition: Signs of Life, Werner Herzog and the Cinema

One of the highlights mentioned in my dispatch from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, published last Monday in indieWIRE, was a multimedia exhibit on Werner Herzog in the port city's old Ice Chambers. Here's what I wrote:

50th TIFF- Snapshots from the Modiano Market

The covered market near the Thessaloniki Film Fest is a welcome respite from days of watching movies and filing stories. Here are just a few of my pics.

50th TIFF- Fashionable film folk

The university city of Thessaloniki is full of students in casual garb, but at the film festival, actors and filmmakers wear a range of looks.

50th TIFF- NO SMOKING humor

When I arrived in Greece earlier this week for the 50th Thessaloniki Int'l Film Festival, I was greeted with a big surprise. In past years, this was a smoker's paradise. Now, in line with the rest of the EU, public smoking is banned in Greece (except for designated areas in eating/drinking establi...

Thessaloniki Recap- Best of the Fest: "The Hourglass"

In my first dispatch from the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival for indieWIRE, I mentioned a film called, "The Hourglass," a Serbia-Hungary-Montenegro co-production, directed by Szabolcs Tolnai. THIS IS A SPECTACULAR FILM!

Thessaloniki Recap- Dardennes early films

Thessaloniki Recap- Market food

There's nothing like eating in one of the tavernas in the Modiano Market, where fresh meat and produce are steps away. And this is Sesame City. I packed bite-sized sesame crackers and a jar of black tahini in my luggage.