cinema, an artistic director was appointed in 1986. In 1992, during its 33rd edition, TIFF became an international festival under the artistic direction of film critic Michalis Demopoulos. Film director Theo Angelopoulos was appointed president. Since then, the festival has been committed to international independent cinema and the discovery of promising voices from around the world and from the Balkans. Further to showcasing the domestic film production, the festival presents independent films, premieres and tributes to major Greek and international filmmakers while hosting a large number of sidebar events. Notable guests and tributes Leading filmmakers that have attended TIFF include Abbas Kiarostami, Nagisa Oshima, Nanni Moretti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Manoel de Oliveira, Ken Loach, Agnès Varda, Béla Tarr, Todd Solondz, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Alfonso Cuarón, Oliver Stone, Emir Kusturica, Fatih Akin, Werner Herzog, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Winterbottom, Aki Kaurismäki, Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne, Louie Psihoyos and John Waters. Acclaimed actors, actresses and artists who visited TIFF either as guests or as member of the festival juries include Catherine Deneuve, Harvey Keitel, Faye Dunaway, Isabelle Huppert, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Sam Rockwell, Michael Ondaatje and Jean Marc Barr. TIFF has held the following tributes to acclaimed auteurs, national cinemas and movements: 60th Festival – 2019 Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers Albert Serra Joanna Hogg Dušan Makavejev 59th Festival – 2018 Jaime Rosales yyyoungcut Nanouk Leopold Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña Greek Queer Cinema Iordanis Ananiadis Before the Wave Breaks: the Road to New Romanian Cinema 58th Festival – 2017 Ruben Östlund Ildikó Enyedi Armand Gatti Ida Lupino From Words to Images: Balkan Literature and Cinema 57th Festival – 2016 Philippe Grandrieux Leonardo Favio Zeki Demirkubuz 56th Festival – 2015 Arnaud Desplechin Focus on New Austrian films Mircea Daneliuc 55th Festival – 2014 Ramin Bahrani Roy Andersson Kornél Mundruczó Želimir Žilnik 54th Festival – 2013 Contemporary Argentine Cinema Claire Simon Alain Guiraudie Balkan Survey 1994-2013 53rd Festival – 2012 Aki Kaurismäki Andreas Dresen Bahman Ghobadi Cristian Mungiu Theo Angelopoulos Costas Zapas Lior Shamriz 52nd Festival – 2011 Ole Christian Madsen Sara Driver Paolo Sorentino Ulrich Seidl Erden Kıral Éric Baudelaire Dror Heller Constantine Giannaris 51st Festival – 2010 Susanne Bier Dorota Kędzierzawska Mohamed Al-Daradji Werner Schröter Apichatpong Weerasethakul Croatian Animation: from the Zagreb School to the Present Borivoj Dovniković-Bordo Martin Putz 50th Festival – 2009 Werner Herzog Jeremy Thomas Philippines Rising Pinku eiga: beyond Pink Goran Paskaljević Ljubomir