Thessaloniki Film Festival

Thessaloniki Film Festival building European bridges

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) teams up with prestigious partners to build bridges between European cinema and young audiences. The Nextus platform and ‘We are filmmakers’ are two internationally oriented initiatives that recently boosted the festival’s educational programme.

nextus/Learning by documentaries

TIFF participated in the design and implementation of the educational platform “Nextus”, carried out within the framework of the Creative Europe Media programme (‘Support to Education’ Sub-programme), in collaboration with Plan Slu (Spain) and DOK.Fest Munich (Germany). Nextus promotes new forms of learning by fostering a critical spirit. As part of the educational community, we suggest new, more challenging and active methods that promote innovative learning experiences.

The main goal of the programme is to contribute the tuition of 20th Century History in the classroom, and to bring young audiences in touch with European documentaries by promoting their transnational circulation. The online platform contains 31 documentaries and is addressed to students aged 12-18. You can access the platform with different types of permission depending on whether you are a teacher or a student and the user will be able to watch either an individual clip or a collection of clips related to a specific topic or even an entire movie. Nextus is available in five languages (Greek, English, German, Spanish, Catalan).

Erasmus project ‘We are Filmmakers’

The We are Filmmakers educational programme is implemented by three cultural institutions, the Marseille documentary Film Festival, the Thessaloniki international Film Festival, the Madrid Film archive and three different schools in the respective cities.

We Are Filmmakers aims to support film education through actions both at a national and European level. During the programme, students and teachers from each country follow an identical model, aimed at familiarising students with film critique and film production.

Within this context, students aged 1518 participated in the three festivals, not only as spectators but also as jury members under the guidance of renowned critics. First they enjoyed the films in the youth programmes of the three festivals, then – thanks to real and virtual mobility – students joined forces in transnational teams to carry out projects supervised by cultural trainers and to create a joint film team aiming to film a documentary on the urban landscape.

Check the We Are Filmmakers programme.

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Maria Papasotiri