Greece’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Set To Cancel Closing Ceremony As Country Continues To Mourn Victims Of Fatal Train Crash
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Northern Greece will cancel its closing ceremony Sunday as the country continues to mourn following a fatal train crash that killed at least 57 people, Deadline can reveal.
The winners from the festival’s competition strands will be announced virtually on Sunday afternoon through a press release.
The competition winners will be photographed with their awards, but there will be no closing ceremony. Last week, festival organizers also canceled the opening ceremony following the train crash and said the festival would continue, but all “festive events and concerts” would be canceled. “In these hours of grief and pain, our thoughts are with the families of the victims, to whom we express our most sincere condolences,” the festival said in a statement at the time.
The fatal crash took place in Tempe, north of Athens, and involved a packed commuter train colliding head-on with a freight train at high speed.
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