KinoFest gives new life to the grounds of the historic Castro Clauss winery and turns them into a summer cinema!
The most important film event of Patras, returns every September to offer young and old from Greece and abroad, an experiential experience in a historical space full of memories.
From the 18th to the 22nd of September, the wonderful space of Castro Clauss in Patras turns into an outdoor summer cinema with free screenings of German-language short and feature films!
KinoFest – German-language Film Festival started today in Patras, while in the winter, part of its screenings will be transferred to Athens.
Here you will find the detailed program:
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For the first time this year the Festival has a competition section in which 8 films from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg participate. The jury consists of: Anna Routsi (lawyer, columnist, documentary researcher), Prodromos Tsinikoris (actor, director) and Alexia Beziki (actress).
KinoFest started as an idea to transform for a few days into a cinema center a magical space, the Castro Clauss space: the oldest winery in Greece. To give an alternative use, that of cinema, to a place which is inextricably linked to a traditional cultural activity: that of the art of wine.
However, as a sign of respect to the roots of this landmark, it was decided that the Festival will be German-speaking in honor (and in the language) of its Bavarian founder, Gustavus Clauss who 163 years ago founded Achaia Clauss.
Thus, for a few days, a summer open air festival will be set up, in the context of which German-language long and short films of the latest production from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg will be shown in co-organization with the Goethe-Zentrum Patras and with the valuable support of of the Federal Republic of Germany in Greece, the Embassy of Switzerland in Greece, the Austrian Embassy in Athens and the Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Athens.
KinoFest – German-language Film Festival was founded by ABCinema in collaboration with the Goethe-Zentrum Patras with the aim of highlighting the best German-language films and promoting German-language audiovisual creation in Greece.
The Festival gives the Greek and international audience a unique opportunity to watch the best new films of contemporary German-language cinema on the big screen.
This year, it will organize children’s workshops and program special screenings in collaboration with the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, a tribute to 70 years of German Films, and a special tribute to The Next Generation, in collaboration with FIRST STEPS – The German Young Talent Award .
In addition, this year KinoFest, in addition to the established Audience Award, will award another award for best film, while hosting a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka as well as a program of the best German short films screened in Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the most important short film festival in the world, in collaboration with AG Kurzfilm Association of German Short Films.
Opening film, which also participates in the competition, is Katharina Woll’s Everybody Wants to Be Loved, starring Ina, a woman who puts everyone’s needs before her own, until one hot summer day, when the self-centered her mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.
The closing film will be the German film No Younger than the Western Front produced by Netflix, which is one of the most awarded non-English-language films in the history of the Oscars and will be shown on the big screen in Greece for the first time as part of the 70-year anniversary by German Films. The play takes place during the First World War and follows an idealistic young German’s attempt to survive.
ABCinema Social Cooperative Enterprise of Collective and Social Benefit based in Patras has as its founding purpose the dissemination of cinematographic art in the Region of Western Greece.
From 2019 until today, more than 5,000 viewers in Patras and throughout Greece have enjoyed images from Castro Clauss and the German-language films shown at the Festival.
All events and screenings of the KinoFest German-language Film Festival are free for the public, contributing to the extroversion of the institution and to the promotion of Patras and Western Greece as tourist destinations and promoting the principles of cultural diplomacy.
This year more than 30 feature and short films from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg will be screened under the night sky and with a glass of fine wine in hand.
The detailed program will be announced soon on the kinofest.gr website
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