Best of Open Air Cinemas

This is the cult film of the 1990s that everyone should know, and Mathieu Kassovitz began writing it on the day a seventeen-year-old was shot during a police interrogation in Paris. Three friends, energy that bursts off the screen, and Vincent Cassel waving a gun around. — The morning after a night of rioting in the Paris suburbs finds Vinz, Hubert and Saïd with nothing to do and nowhere to go. A friend of theirs is lying in hospital in a coma after the police beat him the night before. It’s going to be a long day, and the three of them will make the most of every hour. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1995 Best Film | César Awards | 1996 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 1996

Ten Hellenic Film Academy Awards, Greece's official entry for the Oscars, numerous festival distinctions and two outstanding performances by Vangelis Mourikis and Argyris Pantazaras, in Tzortzis Grigorakis’ directorial debut that combines western, ecology and ancient tragedy in the Greek province. — Withdrawn in a mountain forest, a man fights against an expanding industrial unit in the area. His alienated son’s arrival after his ex wife’s death and his claim for the part of the estate that she left him, will soon result in a clash between the two men. — CICAE Award | Berlin Film Festival Panorama | 2020 Best Actor (Vangelis Mourikis) | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2020 Silver Alexander for Best Film | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020 Audience Award | Tessaloniki Film Festival | 2020 10 Iris Awards | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2021

Many still call it the most beautiful film ever made. When two neighbours discover that his wife and her husband are having an affair, the camera never once shows the cheating couple’s faces, and what grows between the two left behind is a love that never happens, yet you feel it with every sense. — Chow, a newspaper editor, rents a new flat with his wife, and on the other side of the wall lives Li-zhen, whose husband is a salesman who’s nearly always away. Chow’s wife is hardly ever home either, and one evening the two neighbours work out that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Left alone together, they share something neither of them wants to name. — Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Cannes Film Festival | 2000 Best Foreign Language Film | César Awards | 2001 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Actress (Maggie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Film Editing | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001

Louis Garrel (“The Dreamers”) turned his own family story into a crime comedy: his mother spent years running acting workshops in prisons and then married one of the inmates. Garrel plays the son who tries to stop the wedding. — Abel’s mother runs drama classes in a prison, and she has just announced that she’s marrying one of the inmates, a man due out in a few months. Abel is certain it can only end badly. Then he starts getting to know his future stepfather, and the more he learns, the less certain he is about anything. — Official Selection - Out of Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 11 Nominations | César Awards | 2023 Best Original Screenplay | César Awards | 2023 Best Supporting Actress (Noémie Merlant) | César Awards | 2023

If you loved "Perfect Strangers", you'll love this cinematic surprise from Spain for its funny dialogue, snappy editing and perfectly tuned performances, but especially for the shocking twist in the final scene. Please do not reveal it. — Three married couples in therapy are invited by their therapist to a group session. They will gradually air their dirtiest secrets about childcare, jealousy and sex until it all comes to a very unexpected and equally shocking end. — Special Jury Prize | Malaga Film Festival | 2023 Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Juan Carlos Vellido) | Goya Awards | 2024

Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone, Dheepan) in collaboration with Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) redefine the romantic comedy in a fresh and erotic black and white portrait of youth in Paris, based on Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel. — Paris, 13th District today – an area also known as “Les Olympiades” because of its eight tallest towers are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic Games. Emilie meets Camille, who is attracted to Nora, who crosses the path of Amber. Three girls and a boy redefine what modern love is. — Soundtrack Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2021

David Lynch cast Naomi Watts, who was ready to give up acting, as a blonde who arrives in LA certain she’ll be a star, in what was meant to be a pilot for ABC. Luckily the network turned it down, and the dreamlike, unsettling Hollywood nightmare it became now has cult status. — The only survivor of a car crash on a road outside Los Angeles walks away from the wreck with no memory of who she is. She takes shelter in an empty flat, and that’s where Betty finds her, fresh from Canada and sure she’s about to become an actress. Together the two women set out to discover who this stranger is, and who she used to be. — Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002 Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002 Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

Sasha is a vampire whose fangs never grew in, and she hasn’t been able to hurt a soul since her family ate a clown at her birthday party. Then she meets a boy who truly wants to die, and love starts to bloom in the strangest of circumstances. — At sixty-eight, Sasha still looks sixteen, but she’s too soft-hearted to kill, and her parents have run out of patience. They cut off her blood supply, which for a vampire means certain death. Then she meets Paul, a lonely teenager who wants to die and is happy to help her out, though first there are a few things he’d like to do. — Best Film - Giornate Degli Autori | Venice Film Festival | 2023 Best Director - Giornate Degli Autori | Venice Film Festival | 2023 Audience Award - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2023

A sweet little poem about a mother and a daughter, a lush, dreamy postcard that plays music when you open it. The Boy's seventh feature film is overflowing with beauty and love. "A film for tender people in a not-so-tender world." — Sofia, the daughter, returns to Polydroso to take care of Sofia, her mother. In the neighborhood where she grew up, all the reasons that once made her want to leave are waiting for her. Polydroso is an isolated suburb and the two Sofias spend their days stumbling through first kisses, secrets and ghosts of the past. — Official Selection - Greek Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2023

Bright, explosive and tender, Almodóvar’s Oscar winner is dedicated to Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider and his own mother. A woman who has lost her son sets out to find the boy’s father, and on the way she finds friends in women who won’t let her fall. — Esteban dies on his seventeenth birthday, struck by a car in Madrid as he runs to get an actress’s autograph. His mother, Manuela, walks away from everything and heads to Barcelona in search of the boy’s father, whom Esteban never met. The man has never heard that he had a son. — Best International Film | Oscars | 2000 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1999 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1999 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 2000 Best Director | BAFTA | 2000