Movie buffs set to descend on Thessaloniki for 57th TIFF

Jim Jarmusch, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Turkish filmmaker Zeki Demirkubuz and local soccer club PAOK are just some of the stars of this year's Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The program for its 57th edition (November 3-11) is out and there is a new crew running the show, headed by general director Elise Jalladeau, a French film producer, and artistic director Orestis Andreadakis, a Greek film critic.

The curtain will rise on Thursday, November 3, at the flagship Olympion cinema, with Jim Jarmusch's "Paterson," which premiered at Cannes and tells the tale of a New Jersey bus driver who seeks solace in writing poetry before every shift. Jarmusch has a double bill this year, as the festival will also be showing his documentary "Gimme Danger" on influential singer-songwriter Iggy Pop, who helped collect the material for the film, and punk pioneers the Stooges. During a...