THE GREEK FILM FESTIVAL GOES FRANKFURT,
September 19-20, 2026
The Greek Film Festival GOES Frankfurt Returns for Its 5th Edition
The Greek Film Festival GOES Frankfurt 2026 will open its doors for the fifth time on 19–20
September 2026 at Eldorado in Frankfurt. Featuring a selection of five outstanding films,
the festival will showcase the very best of contemporary Greek cinema, offering Greek-
speaking audiences the opportunity to enjoy films in their native language while introducing
German and international viewers to fresh and compelling perspectives from Greece’s
vibrant film scene.
Festival Programme
Saturday, 19 September
6:30 PM – Receptions by Filippos Tsitos (Opening Film), Q&A
9:30 PM – Elena’s Shift by Stefanos Tsivopoulos – Emerging Greeks Award 2026
Sunday, 20 September
4:30 PM – Green Sea by Angeliki Antoniou
6:30 PM – Life in a Beat by Amerissa Basta, Q&A
8:45 PM – Broken Vein by Yannis Oikonomides
The festival is pleased to welcome director Filippos Tsitos (Receptions) and director
Amerissa Basta (Life in a Beat), who will participate in Q&A sessions following their
screenings.
“Five years of the festival mean five years of cinematic encounters, dialogue, and cultural
exchange. Greek cinema continues to evolve, travel, and find new audiences beyond the
country’s borders. We are particularly proud that our two-day festival in Frankfurt has
become part of this journey, creating a lasting meeting place for stories that bring people
closer together. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture, the Embassy of Greece in Germany, the Consulate General of Greece in
Frankfurt, Arthouse Kinos Frankfurt, and, of course, our audience, whose enthusiastic
and moving support year after year makes this festival possible.” — Sofia Stavrianidou,
Festival Director
Ticket pre-sales will begin in mid-July 2026.
About the Festival
The Greek Film Festival in Berlin is Berlin’s Greek film festival founded as Hellas Filmbox Berlin in 2015. The festival offers German and international audiences a unique chance to watch the best of new Greek cinema (or related to Greece) on the big screen. We show 35 to 40 fiction films, documentaries, and shorts, most of which are German or International premieres.
The five-day event takes place every March at the historic Babylon venue in the heart of Berlin. With the attendance of filmmakers, producers, distinguished Jury members, film professionals, artists, and by organizing parallel events, discussions, exhibitions, and networking happenings, the festival has become one of the leading film events in the city. Special thanks go out to our amazing and growing festival audience. The German-Greek Cultural Association organizes the festival.
The German-Greek Cultural Association was founded by German and Greek initiators in Berlin in April 2015 with the aim of supporting and strengthening Greek-German relations through cultural projects like Hellas Filmbox Berlin (2016- 2019), The Greek Film Festival in Berlin (2020 – today), The Greek Film Festival Goes Frankfurt, The Greek Film Festival goes Köln (currently).
The initiators of the German-Greek Cultural Association were artists Asteris Kutulas and Ina Kutulas.
Currently, on the Association’s Board of Directors is Sofia Stavrianidou (Festival Director) and Alkistis Kafetzi (Organization and Film Traffic Manager).
