Jim Jarmusch

The 72nd Cannes Festival opened this week with a disappointing 'Zombie' picture, "The Dead Don't Die" of the American indie director, Jim Jarmusch. Despite some of its laughable scenes, the pic added nothing new to the "genre," which is mostly used as a metaphor to criticize the consumer society of today.

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 Transylvania International Film Festival TIFF offers concerts, debates with special guests and thematic films in several sections - HBO Day, EcoTIFF, Hungarian Day, plus '25 Years After', a new programme dedicated to the major change in 1989.