Submit your film to the **66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival** by May 31st, 2025 and take advantage of the discount early-bird fee. The Festival will take place **from October 30 to November 9, 2025**.

The films of the **International Competition** section are eligible for the following awards:

* Golden Alexander “Theo Angelopoulos” – Best Full-length Feature Film Award, accompanied by a 10,000-euro cash prize
* Silver Alexander – Best Director Award, offered by COSMOTE TV, the Festival’s Grand Sponsor, accompanied by a 5,000 euros cash prize.

  
The films of the **Meet the Neighbors+** competition section will compete for the following awards:

* Golden Alexander “Michel Demopoulos”–Best Full-length Feature Film Award, accompanied by a 10,000-euro cash prize
* Silver Alexander– Best Director Award, accompanied by a 5,000-euro cash prize

  
The films of the **\>>Film Forward** competition section will compete for the following awards:

* Golden Alexander– Best Full-length Feature Film Award, accompanied by an 8,000-euro cash prize
* Silver Alexander–Best Director Award, accompanied by a 4,000-euro cash prize

66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival

The **AGORA Works in Progress** selects projects in post-production stage, which have a link to the Mediterranean regions and Southeastern Europe, and presents them to sales agents, distributors, producers, streaming platforms and festival programmers with the objective to raise finishing funds, secure sales agents, festival premieres and book meetings with potential partners.

Once a project has been selected, the director(s) and producer(s) are called to participate in the preparatory online workshop in October. The workshop is mandatory and includes pitching training, feedback on the pre-recorded pitch and film excerpts for both the online use and the live presentation as well as print presentation feedback (synopsis, director’s notes etc).

The director(s) and producer(s) are both advised to be present during the five days of AGORA Works in Progress (November 1-6, 2025). At least one representative of the project should be present.

Your project’s meetings schedule will be sent to you a few days before the program begins. The schedule will be based upon requests from the invited industry professionals. Additional meetings are scheduled and curated by the AGORA team and upon availability.

Finished film projects presented at the AGORA Works in Progress agree to mention their participation in the AGORA Works in Progress by adding the program’s logo in their credits. The following sentence should be mentioned in the credit list: "\[film title\] has been presented at AGORA Works in Progress of the \[festival edition\] Thessaloniki International Film Festival \[year\]". The logo will be sent to the filmmakers upon selection of the project.

**Jury Awards**

* **Authorwave Post-production Award -** Creative Image Post Services
* **119 Marvila Studios Award -** Sound mixing services
* **ERT AGORA Works in Progress Award -** €2.000 to a Greek project

**Independent Awards**

* **Onassis Film Award -** €10.000 to a Greek project participating in the AGORA (Crossroads Co-production Forum or AGORA Works in Progress)

AGORA Works in Progress

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival takes place every year in Thessaloniki. The Festival features the work of upcoming and leading film directors from all over the world, establishing Thessaloniki as a meeting point between filmmakers and Greek audiences. This year, the 66th Festival is to be held from the 30th of October to the 9th of November, 2025\. Part of the festival program may also be put online on a secure streaming platform for a limited number of screenings, geo-blocked to Greece. In the event of online screenings, the festival will coordinate with filmmakers or rights holders the details of including their film in this selection.

  
The open call is up for immersive cinema and XR!

The films of the **Immersive: All Around Cinema** competition section vie for the Golden Alexander-Best Immersive International Competition Award, accompanied by a cash prize of 2,000 euros.

  
The LGBTQI+-themed films vie for the Mermaid Award; the award is accompanied by a cash prize of 3,000 euros.

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