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Queen at Sea with Juliette Binoche at the Festival theaters!
19.10.2026
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Olympion and Pavlos Zannas venues at Aristotelous Square are ready to welcome you with this week's (22-28/10/2026) new release, the established Sunday appointment of Kids Love Cinema section, as well as the last film of the Cinema Rediscovered tribute of Hellenic Film Academy.
Do not miss out at the Festival's theaters:
- The authentic Queen at Sea, Lance Hammer's second feature film with an incredible performance by Juliette Binoche. A woman finds herself confronting her mother’s advanced dementia and the way her stepfather continues to care for her. Upon witnessing them engaging in sexual activity, she calls the police, believing that the elderly woman is no longer capable of giving consent, thereby triggering a chain reaction that draws in social services, care institutions, and the entire family.
- Silver Bear Jury Prize and Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the 76th Berlinale
At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 21:30
- The tender Little Amélie, the children's film that held its Greek premiere at the 66th TIFF, which will be part of the Kids Love Cinema section. Amélie is a little girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, life is a succession of adventures and discoveries. But on her third birthday, a single event changes everything.
At Pavlos Zannas: Sunday 12:00
- The iconic Landscape in the Mist by Theo Angelopoulos, one of the most significant films in Greek cinema, marking the culmination of Cinema Rediscovered, the Hellenic Film Academy tribute. The existential coming-of-age journey, which encapsulates the cinematic vision of the great Greek filmmaker, brought international recognition to the White Tower, which was later designated a"Treasure of European Film Culture" by the European Film Academy. In the film, starring Stratos Tzortzoglou, two siblings leave home in search of their father in Germany. Their journey, marked by loss and small miracles, becomes a passage into adulthood within a world that explains nothing to them, yet changes them forever.
- Silver Lion, FIPRESCI Prize and OCIC Award at the 45th Venice International Film Festival
- Best Film at the European Film Awards
At Olympion: Friday 20:30
Four more films continue their successful course in 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.
At Olympion: Thursday, 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.
At Olympion: Thursday, Monday, Tuesday 18:00
- 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.
At Pavlos Zannas: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 19:00
- 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.
At Olympion: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday 18:30
