Spanish director Fernando Souza’s dark hybrid feature “Tonight Is Forever” and Serbian filmmaker Stefan Djordjević’s docu-drama “The Leaves Hang Trembling” took home the top honors at the Thessaloniki Film Festival ’s industry awards Wednesday night.

Set in the world of Tokyo’s red-light district, Souza’s feature debut won the 119 Marvila Studios Award, the top prize in the Agora’s Works in Progress section, offering sound mixing services in post-production. The Crossroads Co-Production Forum, meanwhile, gave its top honors — the Two Thirty-Five Co-Production Award, offering full post-production image and sound to a film that’s currently in development — to Djordjević for the follow-up to his 2025 Rotterdam-premiering debut “ Wind, Talk to Me. ”

“Tonight Is Forever,” which follows an

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