Greece to Host 39th European Film Awards in Athens 2027

Greece volition big the 39th European Film Awards connected January 16, 2027, marking the event’s archetypal clip successful Southeastern Europe. Credit: Greek Reporter

Greece volition big the 39th European Film Awards successful a milestone infinitesimal for the country’s cinematic practice and for the wider region. Athens volition invited the ceremonial connected January 16, 2027, marking the archetypal clip the European Film Awards volition beryllium held successful Southeastern Europe.

The Greek National Opera, located wrong the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, is acceptable to big the event, bringing 1 of Greece’s premier taste venues to the halfway of 1 of European cinema’s astir prestigious nights.

Nationwide programme builds momentum for Athens 2027

An extended programme moving passim 2026 and into 2027 volition pb up to the awards ceremony. It volition diagnostic movie events, screenings, workshops, originative dialogues, and a scope of different initiatives designed to physique momentum successful Greece and overseas up of the main event.

The Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center EKKOMED developed the programme successful collaboration with cardinal taste partners, and it volition coordinate the afloat docket of activities. Meanwhile, Greek nationalist broadcaster ERT volition spouse with organizers to aerial the European Film Awards ceremonial unrecorded crossed Europe.

Berlinale motorboat introduced Greece’s European Film Awards 2027

Organizers officially announced Athens 2027 earlier this twelvemonth during the Berlinale, astatine a reception held astatine the Embassy of Greece successful Berlin. The lawsuit was organized by EKKOMED successful collaboration with the European Film Academy and the European Film Awards Committee.

The announcement was met with enthusiasm from filmmakers, producers, organization representatives, and starring manufacture professionals, underscoring the value of hosting the awards successful Greece for the archetypal time.

Thessaloniki lawsuit marked archetypal measurement successful Greece

Greece’s archetypal Athens 2027-related lawsuit took spot past week astatine the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. Organized successful collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Documentary Think Tank opened the yearly programme connected to the European Film Awards.

The gathering brought unneurotic voices from crossed the European documentary assemblage and aimed to assistance signifier the imaginativeness and priorities of the European Film Academy’s Documentary Department, acceptable to motorboat successful 2027.

European Film Awards festivals crossed Greece volition service arsenic ambassadors

In the months starring up to the awards, EKKOMED volition signifier activities linked to the 39th European Film Awards astatine large planetary festivals wherever it has a presence, including Cannes and Venice.

Simultaneously, a wide-ranging programme of events, screenings, and workshops volition instrumentality spot crossed Greece. Several cardinal festivals volition enactment arsenic ambassadors for the awards up of January 2027, including the:

• Thessaloniki Film Festival successful November 2026
• Drama International Short Film Festival successful April and September 2026
• Animasyros International Animation Festival successful September 2026 successful Syros and Athens
• Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People successful December 2026 successful Pyrgos and Amaliada

Athens institutions articulation lead-up to awards

Several large Athens-based organizations are joining the initiative, including the:

• Greek Film Archive
• Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights
• Athens Film Office
• Michael Cacoyannis Foundation
• Panorama of European Cinema Festival
• Athens International Children’s Film Festival

Together, these institutions volition showcase divers aspects of European cinema and assistance widen the program’s scope to broader audiences.

Hellenic Film Academy to curate peculiar program

The Hellenic Film Academy volition curate a peculiar programme nether a dedicated Memorandum of Cooperation, with fiscal enactment from EKKOMED. The inaugural aims to item the affluent and multifaceted narration betwixt Greek cinema and European filmmaking.

As a result, audiences crossed the state volition person the accidental to conscionable filmmakers, be screenings, articulation discussions, and observe the creativity and diverseness of European cinema successful the lead-up to Athens 2027.