Save a seat! This is the detailed program of the 6th Athens Open Air Film Festival!

Τhe 6th Athens Open Air Film Festival begins its screenings which this year too are realized with the kind support of the GNTO for the 4th consecutive year. Co-organizer of the greatest outdoor film fest of the town is the City of Athens Cultural, Sport and Youth Organization, which keeps strengthening this summer institution.
    
The biggest film celebration in Athens returns with more than 20 screenings in the city’s most beautiful spots, from June to September, with free entrance!

For the 6th consecutive year, special places in Athens, archeological sites, parks, squares, and a few of the most beautiful Museums in town, are turned into outdoor «open air cinemas». From the Festival’s location selection, there could not be missing few of the best open-air cinemas of Athens.

The Athens Open Air Film Festival collaborates this year with the British Council and the British Embassy and participates in the world celebration for the 400-year anniversary since the death of the great British playwright. The tribute under the title «Shakespeare in the City» will «bring to life» Shakespeare’s plays through six films that drew inspiration from the theatrical tradition of the British bard and are based on historical dramas, creative fantasy, but also the «chillingly» comic side of his plays. 
The collaboration that the Festival launched last year with the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, is consolidated this year with the screening of three films, in the 260 Peiraios garden. 

In this big film celebration Fischer beer also participates. Fischer is the beer that loves good cinema and ideally complements the special moments of the 6th Athens Open Air Film Festival, delightfully refreshing and buying the Festival’s audience a drink. 

Here is the detailed program:

JUNE

1. Tuesday, June 21st
European Music Day Celebration
«Purple Rain» by Albert Magnoli (1984)
Avdi Square (35 Leonidou Street, Athens)

The almost autobiographical film that fired Prince’s star to its zenith, represents one of the biggest ticket revenues of the '80s and gave birth to one of the top soundtracks of all time. 

2. Friday, June 24th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«Richard III» by Richard Loncraine (1995)
Baroutadiko Park (290 Iera Odos Street, Aigaleo)

Ian McKellen gives acting lessons in this modernized, impressive in set design and most unorthodox version of the violent shakespearean play.

3. Tuesday, June 28th
Official Premiere (entrance upon invitations and entry passes only)
«West Side Story» by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961)
Temple of Olympian Zeus (entrance by Vasilissis Olgas Av. & Amalias Av. for the Disabled)

The musical-dancing triumph of 10 Oscar awards with the unforgettable melodies of Leonard Bernstein and the brilliant libretto by Steven Sondheim, in an anniversary screening for the 55 years since this radical film’s first release.

JULY

4. Friday, July 1st
«The Innocents» by Jack Clayton (1961)
Petralona Park (inside the basketball court, Petralona)

Jack Clayton adapts in an amazing way Henry James’ «The Turn of the Screw» into a masterpiece with ambiance and submission, which CINEMA Magazine proclaimed as one of the best horror film of all times.

5. Tuesday, July 5th
«Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes» / «Aguirre, the Wrath of God» by Werner Herzog (1972)
Kolonos Open – Air Theatre (Ippeiou Kolonou Hill, Athens)

An expedition to the Amazon becomes a compelling thesis on the madness of greatness   which is vibrated by the demonic, provoking presence of Klaus Kinski. It is without a doubt Werner Herzog’s artistic peak.

6. Thursday, July 7^th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«Macbeth» by Roman Polanski (1971)
260 Peiraios Street (260 Peiraios Street, Saint John Rentis)

Polanski presents a nightmarish version of the famous Shakespearean tragedy on the gory consequences of the relentless lust for power, set against the rugged landscape of the North of Wales.

7. Friday, July 8th
«The Thing» by John Carpenter (1982)
Attikon Park Theatre (Galatsiou Regional Road, entrance by Karpenisioti Street)

In one of the most classic sci-fi films, the director of «Halloween» invites everybody to a mass imagination exercise, suspense and unspeakable horror that will freeze your blood.

8. Monday, July 11th
«Kisses to the Children» by Vassilis Loules (2011)
Ermou Pedestrian Precinct (150 Ermou Street, opposite the Kerameikos Museum entrance)

Five elderly Greek-Jewish people tell on camera the story of their childhood hardships during the German Occupation in Greece.  Vassilis Loules retrieves memories from the Nazi invasion, the desperate flee, the rescue of children in generous houses of other Greeks and the burden of personal loss in one of the most touching Greek documentaries of the recent years.

The film will be screened on July 11^th, the day which marks the official mass persecution of the Jewish people in Thessaloniki in 1942, in Eleftherias Square. This day has gone down in history as the «Black Saturday».

9. Wednesday, July 13th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«The Tempest» by Derek Jarman (1979)
260 Peiraios Street (260 Peiraios Street, Saint John Rentis)

Jarman takes on Shakespeare’s last work and puts his own heretical signature in one of the most charmingly paradox play metaphors of the British the bard in the big screen.

10. Thursday, July 14th
Within the framework of the French National Day
«Diva» by Jean-Jacques Beineix (1981)
Cine Dexameni (Dexameni Square, Athens)

One of the audience’s favorite 80’s films, this magical combination of noir and romance attributed in eminent cinema terms that which until today we still call modern cinema.

11. Tuesday, July 19th
«Aliens» by James Cameron (1986)
Train at Rouf Theatre (Kallitheas-Olympiadas Provincial Road, Athens)

Impressive effects, action barrage, scenes of unbearable suspense and merciless pace in a glorious sequel which stands deservingly next to Ridley Scott’s original film and places its heroine in the list with the most enduring figures of cinema.

12. Wednesday, July 20th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«King Lear» by Peter Brook (1970)
260 Peiraios Street (260 Peiraios Street, Saint John Rentis)

Two sacred legends of the English theatre, director Peter Brook and actor Paul Scofield, transform the «King Lear» tragedy in a high quality cinema spectacle.

13. Friday, July 22nd
«The Verdict» by Sidney Lumet (1982)
Cine Trianon (21 Kodrigktonos Street, Athens)

With an extraordinary Paul Newman in the leading role, one of the grand masters of American cinema signs one of his best films: A sensational judicial drama which stood as a reference point for countless films that followed.

14. Monday, July 25th
Silent cinema and music
«Dementia» by John Parker (1955) accompanied by The Boy’s live music
Greek Film Archive (48 Iera Odos Street, Athens)

The night odyssey of a lonely woman in the streets of the big city leads her to dark alleys of sexual desperation and insanity, in this truly bizarre and yet unexplored from the wide audience film noir which has no dialogues and leaves everything to the language of the expressionistic images.

15. Friday, July 29th
«Amadeus» by Milos Forman (1984)
Byzantine and Christian Museum (Vas.Sofias 22, Athens)

AUGUST

16. Friday, August 19th
«Dressed to Kill» by Brian de Palma (1980)
Greek Film Archive (48 Iera Odos Street, Athens)

Provocative sensuality, shocking violence, hard suspense and scheming script surprises in a perversely enjoyable psychological thriller where de Palma directs with indescribable mastery and outright pleasure.

17. Friday, August 26th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«Henry V» by Laurence Olivier (1944)
Dionysiou Areopagitou Pedestrian Precinct (opposite the Acropolis Museum)

War, corruption, romance and … Laurence Olivier. The actor who became synonymous to Shakespearean representation in theatre and cinema, takes up the role of Henry V and directs some of the most epic (and blood shedding) battle scenes of cinema.

18. Monday, August 29th
Tribute «Shakespeare in the City»
«Theatre of Blood» by Douglas Hickox (1973)
Numismatic Museum (12 Panepistimiou Street, Athens)

Horror, irresistible black humor and a sardonic Vincent Price that we can’t get enough of star in this eccentric parody, where an actor avenges the theatre critics that disdained him, having as a murder manual Shakespeare’s plays!

19. Wednesday, August 31st
«C`Era una Volta il West» / «Once Upon A Time in the West» by Sergio Leone (1968)
Plato’s Academy Park (137 Monastiriou, Athens)

The remarkable musical scores of Ennio Morricone, the sharp look of Henry Fonda, the grand direction of Sergio Leone, Claudia Cardinale’s beauty scattered in a cruel man’s world and the mythology of the Wild West contribute to the birth of one of the formidable western epics of cinema.

SEPTEMBER

20. Friday, September 2nd
«The Misfits» by John Huston (1961)
National Archaeological Museum (44 October 28th Street, Athens)

A melancholic and elegiac requiem for the lovely losers of this world with Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift in their last cinema appearances. It is directed by one of the most legendary figures of old-time Hollywood.

21. Monday, September 5th
Surprise-screening for the 40 years of the magazine «Athinorama».
The location and details of the screening will be announced soon.

The entrance is free to all screenings which are organized with the kind support of the GNTO & www.visitgreece.gr .

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