Screen can reveal the first trailer for Christos Passalis’ and Syllas Tzoumerkas’ historical drama The City And The City, which is premiering in the Berlinale’s Encounters strand.

The film explores seven decades of history around Thessaloniki – Greece’s second-largest city – and, specifically, its Jewish community. Unfolding over the course of six chapters, a prologue and an epilogue, the movie blurs the lines between documentary, narrative feature and video essay.

Tzoumerkas returns to the Berlinale this year after his third film The Miracle Of The Sargasso Sea premiered in the Panorama section in 2019.

Passalis makes his debut as writer-director with the film, having acted in The Miracle Of The Sargasso Sea as well as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth.

The City And The City is a co-production of the Greek National Opera and Homemade Films, with the collaboration of Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

It was produced by Maria Drandaki and curated by Orestis Andreadakis. Syndicado Film Sales has international rights. 

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