The Evia Film Project is back in action!

The Evia Film Project, the green initiative of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, is back in action for the fifth consecutive year in Northern Evia, focusing on the unseen and fascinating world of the forest.

This year’s EFP features a poster blooming with elements from the wonderful world of nature, and will kick off with a blend of cinema and music from the band Quilombo, whereas its closing will turn into a spectacular cinema feast. The 5th Evia Film Project, held from June 23rd to June 27th with the support of the Ministry of Culture, showcases film screenings, masterclasses and a series of exciting actions, open for the public.

This year’s core theme: The Forest

A refuge and a sanctuary, a locus of mystery and time-lasting legends, source of life and ideal backdrop for stories of realism and legendary adventures and horror films, the forest has accompanied cinema ever since the latter’s birth, having fuelled countless films. This year’s programme is calling us to let ourselves in the hands of the forest’s intangible powers and reconnect with a universe at once fragile, primordial and ever-changing. In addition, it urges us to redefine our coexistence with nature, amidst a critical time that renders its protection more urgent than ever.

The Poster

This year’s poster, created by Bob Studio, is inspired by Evia Film Project’s core theme, featuring elements and visual images that constitute the very soul of a wild forest: insects and birds, plants and trees, an unrevealed and adventurous world that bustles with life and is suddenly unveiled before our eyes. Endowed with vivid colors and hand-made illustrations, the poster foregrounds an exotic yet warm and familiar universe, while alluding to techniques and motives found both in indigenous and botanical art.

Bob Studio is an independent and multi-awarded design agency. Its range of work includes brand identities and corporate logos for customers both in Greece and abroad, having also taken on numerous artistic and cultural projects for museums, publishing houses, music artists, festivals etc. It has received prizes and distinctions in international competitions such as the Red Dot Design Awards, Pentawards, Dieline and European Design Awards, as well as in Greece, within the context of the EVGE and Ermis Awards.

Pre-festival events

On Saturday June 20th and Sunday June 21st a refreshing treat is waiting for you at Kyma, in Edipsos, matched by gifts for the kids, as well as a beloved film for all.

Moreover, a competition will take part featuring great prizes and giveaways: a VIP trip to the 67th Thessaloniki International Film Festival held in November 2026, dinners at local restaurants and collectible tote bags filled with small Festival gifts. The winners will be announced at the opening ceremony of the 5th Evia Film Project, at the open-air cinema Apollon, on Tuesday June 23rd.

Kick-off with the unforgettable filmThe African Queen and Quilombo music brass band

The 5th Evia Film Project kicks off in dynamic style on Tuesday, June 23rd. The tune of the feast will be set to perfection by the Quilombo band: a percussion ensemble with influences from the traditional Brazilian music and the rhythms of both samba batucada and samba reggae. An impressive spectacle will transform the streets of Edipsos, inviting every neighborhood into a frenzy dance that will lead to the open-air cinema Apollon, which will host the curtain-rise of this year’s EFP with the screening of the classic film The African Queen (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

Exquisitely blending adventure and comedy, the film takes us to the Eastern Africa forests, in 1914 Kongo, shortly before the First World War outbreak. A man and a woman cross paths by fate, forced to run a roaring river on a wrecked boat, caught between crossfire. While winning their highly unlikely battle for survival, they discover along the way the joy and the beauty of love against a wild and fascinating backdrop. The film earned Humphrey Bogart the only Oscar award of his legendary career.

Calling it a wrap with a cinema feast

The 5th Evia Film Project will call it a wrap on Saturday June 27th, in Edipsos, at the open-air cinema Apollon, with a cinema feast featuring a great number of surprises for the public. The closing event includes the screening of the beloved film Jurassic Park (1993) by Steven Spielberg, hand-made treats from local stores, free-flowing Fischer beer and gifts for kids.

The event will wind up with the screening of Spielberg’s adored epic adventure Jurassic Park (1993). Following a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an eccentric billionaire sets up a thematic park where dinosaurs are revived in a forest, located on a desolate island. However, as soon as the security system collapses, the park turns into an uncontrollable world, where people and prehistoric creatures go toe-to-toe amidst wild nature. Jurassic Park went on to become a benchmark film that led to the birth of a box-office smash franchise, remaining, a whole 33 years after its initial release, an incredible and unshakeable cinema myth.

Film night in Rovies

On Friday June 26th, at the square of the village Rovies, a film night featuring treats from the village’s taverns and the screening of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) is in store for the public.

Film screening by the mineral springs

The film Bathers (2009) by Eva Stefani, a great part of which has been shot in Edipsos, will be screened by the beach, right next to the mineral springs of Edipsos, on Thursday June 25th, from 21:00 to 01:00.

The film follows the life of a group of bathers in different spa towns of Greece during the course of a summer. Life flows slowly there, with rhythms reminiscent of older times. The elderly visitors are the true protagonists of these places. Immersed in the sluggish summer ambiance, they behave themselves more freely compared to their usual social context. More than often, instead of elderly people, one gets the impression of being surrounded by youngsters in a teenage camp.

The Evia Film Project is carried out by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, financed by the Ministry of Culture. Valuable is the support of the Festival’s Grand Sponsor, COSMOTE TELEKOM, as is Fisher’s, which also consistently supports the Festival over the years.