Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and Romain Gavras at the Festival theaters!

Olympion and Pavlos Zannas venues at Aristotelous Square are ready to welcome you with this week's (15-21/10/2026) two new releases, the first film of this season’s Kids Love Cinema section and the premieres of the Cinema and Psychoanalysis and the CineDoc screenings.

Do not miss out at the Festival's theaters:

• The touching All of a Sudden, the most recent film of the great Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, which is Japan’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Marie-Lou Fontaine, the new director of a Paris nursing home strives for a more humane care for the elders, adopting the «Humanitude» method, despite resistance from her team. Her encounter with Mari Morisaki, a philosopher from Japan, changes her life, all of a sudden.

See the trailer here

At Olympion: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 20:15

• The impressive Sacrifice, the latest film from Romain Gavras, featuring a star-studded cast (Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel), which was shot partially in Drama city. After the mysterious death of their mother, Joan and her siblings become convinced that an ancient prophecy has chosen them for a momentous task: to cleanse the Earth. To achieve this, they storm a lavish charity gala where celebrities and tycoons are celebrating "for a good cause" and kidnap three individuals destined for a ritual sacrifice.

See the trailer here

At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 19:30

• The hit Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc., this film season’s return of the beloved Kids Love Cinema. The lovable Sulley and his wisecracking assistant Mike are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the largest scare factory in Monstropolis. The monsters are terrified when a little girl named Boo wanders into their world. It is up to Sulley and Mike to keep her hidden and get her back home.

See the trailer here

At Pavlos Zannas: Sunday 12:00

• The CineDoc season premiere at the Festival venues At No Cost, a shocking documentary by Mary Bouli that won the "Dimitri Eipides" Golden Alexander in the Newcomers competition section of the 28th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Danae works at a bar, but dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. She is one of the many young women in Athens struggling to make ends meet. She decides to become an egg donor. Why not? Sounds like it comes at no cost. But the procedure is not that simple.

See the trailer here

At Olympion: Wednesday 18:30

• The Cinema and Psychoanalysis premiere La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz’s outstanding directorial debut, a commentary on violence and its manifestations in Western society that evolved into a cultural phenomenon. The film chronicles a day in the lives of three friends living in the deprived suburbs of Paris on the margins of French society during a period of escalating conflict between the police and the "ghettos," sparked by a violent assault by the authorities on a young man. The screening is organized by the Thessaloniki Psychoanalytic Circle and the Hellenic Society of the New Lacanian School (HS-NLS), with the support of the Athens Academy of Clinical Studies (AKSPA) and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

*Suitable for viewers aged 15 and over.

See the trailer here

At Pavlos Zannas: Sunday 14:30

Two more films continue their successful course in the Festival's theaters:

• Lance Oppenheim’s shocking Primetime, a psychological thriller starring Robert Pattinson, a film which explores the limits between journalism, true crime, reality show and public punishment. In 2006, the television presenter of To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, finds himself facing a big opportunity: a prime-time slot for live operations targeting suspects of sexual crimes against minors.

See the trailer here

At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 21:30

• NAZA, the shocking documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor about Gaza, which stunned audiences and critics at the recent Venice Film Festival. The new documentary by the Israeli filmmakers, shot in utmost secrecy at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, focuses on the mass killings of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

See the trailer here

At Olympion: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday 18:30