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The Agora of the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival bestowed its awards at a special event held on Wednesday, November 8th. The head of the Agora, Angeliki Vergou, welcomed the audience and stated: "It’s been a very productive 6 days full of meetings, screenings, and hopefully new collaborations. We hope you enjoyed your stay in Thessaloniki and that you go back home happy with your experience. We are sure we will watch your wonderful films in the dark room of a theater and / or on a big or smaller screen in the comfort of our own house. We wish success on all levels and we wish to see you back here in Thessaloniki with your finished films."

As part of the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival's tribute to Storytelling, script consultant and story editor Ruth Atkinson delivered a masterclass on Wednesday, November 8th, at Pavlos Zannas theatre, titled "Writing from The Inside Out: Finding Your Voice", in collaboration with Discovery Days - Los Angeles Greek Film Festival.

The beloved director Nikos Perakis received the Golden Alexander Award of the Thessaloniki Film Festival at a special event held on Tuesday evening, November 7th, at Olympion theater. The honorary event was followed by the screening of the film Living Dangerously in universal accessible terms, with the support of Alpha Bank, accessibility sponsor of the Festival, within the framework of the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival's tribute to the work of Nikos Perakis both as a director and as a production designer.

As part of the Agora Talks of the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, on Tuesday, November 7th, the presentation of the films participating in this year's Agora Works in Progress took place at the Tonia Marketaki Hall.

The writer Dimosthenis Papamarkos delivered a masterclass within the framework of the 64th Thessaloniki Film Festival's tribute to Storytelling on Tuesday, November 7th, at Pavlos Zannas theater, titled “Around the Fire, in Front of the Lights”.