Thessaloniki opens among Greek turmoil

'The Descendants'The Thessaloniki Film Festival starts today like a vacation in a holiday in greece wrestles having its decision to just accept an $18 billion bailout within the EU rather than go under and face expulsion within the eurozone. No matter the economical turmoil, the fest is always that rare local phenom -- a cultural event getting the next guaranteed for an additional couple of years by EU funding. Carrying out a year beneath the leadership of prexy Dimitri Eipides, Thessaloniki remains completely sleek while not with techniques that website site visitors might find, according to him. Still offers honours different from 10,000 ($13,800) to $41,200. Fest opens with Alexander Payne's family drama, George Clooney starrer "The Descendants," and occasions will unspool in Thessaloniki's harbor arts space, a location now being reclaimed from years of disuse. It possesses a new Open Horizons section praising indie photos. It provides Iranian exile Amir Naderi's "Cut," of a Japanese filmmaker trying to create his next movie fellow Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof's "Goodbye" and helmer Dorota Kedzierzawska's Polish/Japanese "Tomorrow Will Improve,Inch three Russian immigrant children. Photos by Gaul's Bruno Dumont, Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne plus options from Russia's Alexander Sokurov and Andrey Zvyagintsev and Spain's Montxo Armendriz complete the section. Site visitors prone to draw crowds include company company directors Payne, Ole Christian Madsen and Ulrich Seidl plus roundtables on comparative production in Israel, Romania along with a vacation in a holiday in greece. Agora market and Crossroads co-production forum can have rising Greek talent. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com