Sundance Winners Blerta Basholli and Myrsini Aristidou Compete in Thessaloniki’s Meet the Neighbors+ Competition (EXCLUSIVE)

The 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival has announced its Meet the Neighbors+ and >>Film Forward competition line-ups, with Sundance award winners Blerta Basholli and Myrsini Aristidou among the filmmakers competing. Basholli’s “Dua”, a coming-of-age drama set during the Kosovo War, won the SACD Award at Cannes Critics’ Week; Aristidou’s “Hold Onto Me” received Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award.

Meet the Neighbors+ features 11 debut or second films, including Pierre Le Gall’s Zurich-winning “Flesh and Fuel”, and awards a €10,000 Golden Alexander and €5,000 Silver Alexander, alongside acting prizes and possible screenplay or artistic achievement awards. Its jury includes Cristina Cassano, Sofia Exarchou and Anne Østerud; the festival runs from 5 to 15 November, and the separate >>Film Forward section also has 10 competing films.