Athens Open Air Film Festival 2022 is still running

The Athens International Film Festival and cinemagazine.gr are putting together a cinematic event that aims to link the life in the city with the art of cinema. Special spots at archaeological sites, parks, squares, beaches, museums and other places around the city are set to turn into open-air cinemas with free entrance for everyone!

The Athens Open Air Film Festival organizes outdoor events against the backdrop of the most distinctive monuments of Athens, touristic destinations as well as more unexpected locations, which showcase the urban landscape (squares, parks, pedestrian areas) for its residents as well as its visitors. Central areas of the city are transformed in order to host film screenings, concerts, premieres of short films and many more interactive events, as always free of charge for everyone.

The primary goal of this event, which will run from June until late August, is to draw attention towards the centre of Athens and its suburbs, so that the residents and the visitors are reacquainted with the city that we love to dislike as a city that is both a modern European city and a unique touristic destination.

Out of a wide selection of films, ranging from the most popular ones to the most uncommon, from short to feature-filmmaking attempts by representatives of Greek cinema and subversive artistic suggestions of “mixed media” fusing cinema with music, Athens Open Air Film Festival offers three uplifting artistic months, full of passion, and love for cinema and art.

Free movie screenings of great classics at some of Athens’ most enchanting locations. Track down your ideal combination of film and location below

27/06: Zabriskie Point, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970, Gardens of the Italian Embassy in Athens 29/06: Modern Times, Charles Chaplin, 1936, Roman Agora 01/07: Lolita, Stanley Kubrick, 1962, AB summer cinema 02/07: Depeche Mode: 101, David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1989, Technopolis 03/07: Wild At Heart, David Lynch, 1990, Technopolis 05/07: Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir, 1937, Gardens of the French School at Athens 12/07: Summer Light, Jean Grémillon, 1943, Gardens of the French School at Athens 14/07: L’Atalante, Jean Vigo, 1934, Greek Film Archive 21/07: Confidentially Yours, François Truffaut, 1983, Gardens of the French School at Athens 23/07: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992, Palace of the Duchess of Plaisance 29/07: The Before trilogy – Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013), Richard Linklater, Plato’s Academy 24/08: The Great Escape, John Sturges, 1963, Riviera 30/08: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964, Gardens of the French School at Athens