Yahoo Lifestyle Berlin Winner Nicolas Philibert, Sundance Winner Lauren Greenfield to Be Honored at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert will be awarded the honorary Golden Alexander for his contribution to cinema at the 27th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, which runs March 6-16. The festival will also 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 deliver a masterclass, moderated by documentarist, producer and screenwriter Marco Gastine.
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Philibert won Berlin’s Golden Bear for best film in 2023 for “On the Adamant” and “Être et Avoir” won the European Film Award for European documentary in 2002.
The festival will screen a trilogy of Philibert’s films on alternative psychiatric approaches, along with an illuminating portrait of people working as nurse practitioners: “Each and Every Moment” (2018), “On the Adamant” (2023), “At Averroès & Rosa Parks” (2024) and “The Typewriter and Other Headaches”(2024).
Greenfield, who is also welcomed as a member of the International Competition jury, “castigates the toxic side of hyperconsumerism, leaving a biting commentary on the decay of the nouveau-riche class that wastes itself in ephemeral delights,” the festival said.
Greenfield’s debut documentary was “Thin” (2006), which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2012, she won the directing award, documentary, at Sundance for “The Queen of Versailles.” Other films include “Kids + Money” (2008), “Fashion Show” (2010), “Beauty CULTure” (2011), and “Generation Wealth” (2018).
Her most recent project, the documentary series “Social Studies” (2024), is a social experiment exploring the effects of social media on the first generation of digital natives, today’s adolescents.
The festival also announced that “The Last Republican,” directed by Steve Pink, will screen. The documentary unveils the struggle by popular former Republican politician Adam Kinzinger to bring Donald Trump to justice, following the Capitol attack in January 2021.
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