{"id":2288869,"date":"2026-02-19T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288869"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:40:18","slug":"thessaloniki-intl-documentary-festival-unveils-international-competition-lineup-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/thessaloniki-intl-documentary-festival-unveils-international-competition-lineup-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival Unveils International Competition Lineup (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The lineup for the International Competition section of the 28th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, which runs March 5-15, has been unveiled.<\/p>\n

The 14 films taking part will be vying for a series of prizes, among them the Golden Alexander, accompanied by a cash prize of 12,000 euros, and the Silver Alexander, accompanied by a cash prize of 5,000 euros.<\/p>\n

Tidf is an Oscars qualifying festival and the film that wins the Golden Alexander will automatically be eligible to submit for Academy Awards consideration in the Documentary Feature category.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the lineup of the International Competition (descriptions courtesy of the festival):<\/p>\n

\u201cBugboy\u201d Courtesy of Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival<\/p>\n

\u25cf \u201cBugboy,\u201d Lucas Paleocrassas<\/a>, Greece-Denmark-France, 2026 (World premiere)<\/p>\n

George, a shy teenager with misaligned eyes, struggles to connect with others after his parents\u2019 divorce. Finding refuge in the world of insects, he bonds with a cricket named Isabella. Through a portrait of transformation and self-discovery, the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lineup for the International Competition section of the 28th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, which runs March 5-15, has been unveiled. The 14 films taking part will be vying for a series of prizes, among them the Golden Alexander, accompanied by a cash prize of 12,000 euros, and the Silver Alexander, accompanied by a cash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2288869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Thessaloniki-Intl-Documentary-Festival-Unveils-International-Competition-Lineup-Exclusive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288871,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288869\/revisions\/2288871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}