Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2026

Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival which will take place from the 5th till the 15th of March is full of potential… including two accessible documentaries. ATLAS E.P. has subtitled for accessibility purposes the documentaries “Etel Adnan: Words in Exile” and “Heracles, Acheloos and My Granny”. Further accessibility services will be provided for the above-mentioned documentaries. You can read more information on the Festival’s website.

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

by Vouvoula Skoura

Synopsis

Α unique portrait of the poet and painter Etel Adnan through a multiplicity of visual fragments, languages, peoples and their identities. The film is based on Adnan’s correspondence with Professor of History Fawwaz Traboulsi and on fragments of her conversations with Vouvoula Skoura as recorded in Paris and the Greek island of Skopelos.

Screening information: https://vp.eventival.com/thessaloniki/tidf28/film/1219778

Heracles, Acheloos and My Granny

by Dimitris Koutsiabasakos

Synopsis

In Armatoliko, a mountain village in Trikala Province, high in the Tzoumerka mountain range, on the banks of the Acheloos, the 89-year-old Mrs Dimitra lives alone. She is the beloved grandmother of director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos, who visits her with a small crew of friends. The result of the visit is Hercules, Acheloos and My Granny, one of the most iconic Greek documentaries of recent decades. Through the unforgettable, laughing, down-to-earth figure of his grandmother, Koutsiabasakos’ lens captures the rugged and indomitable, inexpressibly tender and loving spirit of the Greek countryside, as well as the dark and turbulent history of the 20th century, the wounds of which are inscribed on the old woman’s body. Wounds which not only still gape, but on which new wounds are being piled up, as Armatoliko is shortly to be flooded by the waters of the Acheloos, due to the controversial dam being built in the area. Rarely has a short film captured the spirit of a place, and of a century, so vividly, bursting with emotion and love.

Screening information: https://vp.eventival.com/thessaloniki/tidf28/film/1219778