Thessaloniki Agora Awards: ‘African Grey’ By Greek Filmmaker Yorgos Goussis Among Top Winners — Full List

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Feature title African Grey by Greek Filmmaker Yorgos Goussis has picked up the ThessalonikiFilm Festival’s Onassis Film Award, the largest cash prize handed out by the festival’s industry section.

The award comes with a €10,000 prize. Discussing their choice, the Agora awards jury said: “The Onassis Film Award goes to a project that redefines a beloved genre and promises a satisfying cinematic story with a surprising protagonist.

A project which shows that sometimes ideas for films can be found as easily as knocking on our neighbor’s door.” Elsewhere, The Hunchback by Turkish filmmaker Ahu Ozturk won the festival’s Two Thirty-Five (2|35) Award, which comes with image and sound post-production services while the 8,000-euro award for script development handed out by France’s CNC was picked up by Rakan Mayas’s feature Passport.  “We wish success on all levels and we wish to see you back here in Thessaloniki with your completed films,” Angeliki Vergou, head of the Festival’s Agora, said at the awards ceremony. “Let’s live a little bit longer in cinematic denial and forget for a while the results of the American elections, and enjoy this night of friendship and collaboration”.

Angeliki Vergou went on to call on stage Elise Jalladeau, general director of the Festival, and Orestis Andreadakis, the Festival’s artistic director.