MUMBAI: The 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival that will commence tomorrow will screen Kim Tae-gon’s Sunshine Boys ?????in competition, thus making it the first time in four years that an Asian film has competed at the Greek festival.

The South Korean drama premiered at the Busan International Film Festival last year. It screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Osaka Asian Film Festival and Durban International Film Festival. The festival is also screening Uchida Nobuteru’s Odayaka in the Open Horizons section and, in Special Screenings, Kore-Eda Hirokazu’s Like Father, Like Son and Hong Sang-soo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon.

Last year, there were six Asian films at the festival, including Abbas Kiarostami’s Japan-shot Like Someone in Love in Special Screenings and Hong’s In Another Country as the closing film. The festival which will go on till 10 November opens with Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and closes with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. Both films’ directors will attend the festival. Payne will also be President of the competition jury.