Institution : Thessaloniki International Film Festival
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s library of film books is an invaluable legacy for all lovers of the history and evolution of cinema. The library’s books cover the following thematic categories: film theory and aesthetics; film director monographs; actor biographies; national cinemas; the history of film; dictionaries and annual guides; film genres (film noir, Westerns, etc.), screenplays, and the technical side of film. The publications are an integral part of its activities, as well as a point of reference for the art and history of cinema. They have created a new cinematic chapter in terms of Greek reference books, bringing together original and never-before-published texts, in-depth interviews with film directors, detailed filmographies and a wealth of photographs. The Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s collection includes post-war film journals from the “Studio – Parallel Circuit” library that are no longer published. Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, Orson Wells, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, Reiner Werner Fassbinder and so many other great filmmakers from different eras. Some of the most beloved masterpieces of world cinema, part of the “Studio – Parallel Circuit” film collection, the archive of which comprises films of unparalleled cultural value, are waiting for you to discover them. The HELLAFI collection, whose giant movie posters adorned the facades of cinemas in Greece, is considered unique in the world. It includes original painted giant movie posters produced by most of the painters who turned to this type of art and representing various eras; preparatory sketches used to paint the giant movie posters; lithograph posters dating to the 1950s made by different artists; preparatory sketches used for printing lithograph posters; pencil sketches; and watercolor, ink and crayon works painted between 1950-1975.
