I have not missed the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival once in the last nine years. The brain child of utopian-minded Dimitris Eipedes, who conceived it as a means to "make the world a smaller place" and "hear each other's stories," it offers a chance to go--via an exhilarating viewing adventure--from Janis Joplin's aching music to a train ride with a Syrian refugee trying to get residency in Italy, all in the course of an evening. I particularly liked nine films this year:Amy Berg's "