French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert shall be awarded the honorary Golden Alexander for his contribution to cinema on the twenty seventh Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Competition, which runs March 6-16. The competition will even host a tribute to the work of the American filmmaker Lauren Greenfield.
Philibert, who “dares to permeate the innermost depths of the human psyche,” will ship a masterclass, moderated by documentarist, producer and screenwriter Marco Gastine.
Philibert received Berlin’s Golden Bear for greatest movie in 2023 for “On the Adamant” and “Être et Avoir” received the European Movie Award for European documentary in 2002.
The competition will display a trilogy of Philibert’s movies on different psychiatric approaches, together with an illuminating portrait of individuals working as nurse practitioners: “Every and Each Second” (2018), “On the Adamant” (2023), “At Averroès & Rosa Parks” (2024) and “The Typewriter and Different Complications”(2024).
Greenfield, who can be welcomed as a member of the Worldwide Competitors jury, “castigates the poisonous facet of hyperconsumerism, leaving a biting commentary on the decay of the nouveau-riche class that wastes itself in ephemeral delights,” the competition mentioned.
Greenfield’s debut documentary was “Skinny” (2006), which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2012, she received the directing award, documentary, at Sundance for “The Queen of Versailles.” Different movies embody “Youngsters + Cash” (2008), “Trend Present” (2010), “Magnificence CULTure” (2011), and “Technology Wealth” (2018).
Her most up-to-date venture, the documentary sequence “Social Research” (2024), is a social experiment exploring the consequences of social media on the primary technology of digital natives, at this time’s adolescents.
The competition additionally introduced that “The Final Republican,” directed by Steve Pink, will display. The documentary unveils the battle by in style former Republican politician Adam Kinzinger to convey Donald Trump to justice, following the Capitol assault in January 2021.
