Athens Open Air Film Festival in Elefsina
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Description
Athens Open Air Film Festival in Elefsina was a four-day film festival with film screenings at iconic locations of the city, that was held in July 2021.
The programme included five screenings in five different locations of exceptional aesthetic and historical importance, thus showcasing the ever-changing landscape of Elefsina and offering a new opportunity to “study” five brilliant films. The cinematic journey began on Friday 23rd July wth the Final Cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece “Apocalypse Now”, at the impressive location of “Vlycha”. On Saturday 24th July, the beautiful Old Olive Oil Mill Theatre of Elefsina hosted a unique and unprecedented screening of the unsurpassed “Nosferatu” with Nikos Veliotis producing haunting music to accompany Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s gothic imagery. In addition, on Sunday 25th July audience members journeyed to the glorious Art Cinema of the 70s with the screening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s “The Passenger” in the Parking Lot of the Old Olive Oil Mill. The last stop in this cinematic four-day event and the culmination of the activities of the Athens Open Air Film Festival in co-organization with “2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture” was on Monday 26th July with a double screening-experience in two emblematic spaces of Elefsina: at the Archaeological site of Elefsina the film "Mourning Rock" by Filippos Koutsaftis was screened, while a unique performance, a dialogue and a tribute to the memorable “Mourning Rock”, by the actor Takis Vasileiou was presented. On the same night, a few minutes apart from the screening of the film “Mourning Rock”, in yet another emblematic location of Elefsina (the area of Karnagio Gefyra), Aki Kaurismäki’s "Le Havre" was screened amidst ships with illuminated hulls, moored boats and with the moon rising right above the big screen, adding an extra romantic touch to an already beautiful evening.
Athens Open Air Film Festival was implemented with the support of the Municipality of Elefsis, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica and the Elefsina Port Authority. In the following years, the Mystery 23 Cine Eleusis: IN SITU REALITIES was implemented in July 2022 as well as IN SITU REALITIES: Eleusis Documentary Festival in December 2023.
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Stages of Implementation
Festival duration: 23-07-2021 to 26-07-2021
Partners
Δήμος Ελευσίνας (Municipality of Elefsis), Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Δυτικής Αττικής (Ephorate of Antiquities of Western Attica), Οργανισμός Λιμένος Ελευσίνας (Elefsina Port Authority), Κινηματογραφική Εταιρεία Αθηνών (Athens Film Society), Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου της Αθήνας Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας (Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights)
Tickets Policy
Free admission
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