Discoveries and Rediscoveries at the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival

7 November, 2025

This year’s edition of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, as I experienced it, revolved around one central theme: family. From the opening film – Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother (winner of the Golden Lion in Venice) – to the retrospective dedicated to the writer-director duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, whose work is, to put it mildly, not exactly family-friendly.

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Film critic and journalist, UNATC graduate. Andrei Sendrea wrote for LiterNet, Gândul, FILM and Film Menu, and worked as an editor on the "Ca-n Filme" TV Show. In his free time, he works on his collection of movie stills, which he organizes into idiosyncratic categories. At Films in Frame, he writes the Watercooler Wednesdays column - the monthly top of TV shows/series.