16/7-19/7 Cultural Centre ‘Melina Merkouri’

20/7-23/7 ‘Gardenia” Open Air Cinema



Ecocinema film festival travels to the Island of Hydra and presents an 8-day film programme of Greek premieres, prize-winning documentary, and film tributes.

7th ECOCINEMA ended on Thursday 27 February with the screening of the SOS Live Earth Shorts film programme. Following the prize award ceremony and after popular demand, there was an honorable screening of the film "In The Constellation Of Porto-Leone" by Dionyssis Gregoratos.

The award ceremony, took place in the full house of Attikon Cinema in Piraeus, attended by many officials and representatives of local authorities and organisations of the city.

The films "Manufactured Landscapes" by Canadian Jennifer Baichwal and "Sounds of Sand" by Belgian Marion Hänsel, shared the first prize of 8.000€ of this year's  ECOCINEMA Feature Length Films.

In the same category of prizes, the film "4 Elements" by Jiska Rickels from the Netherlands received a special mention.

The prize for Journalistic Research and Documentation Films worth 4.000€ was awarded to the documentary film "Palestine Blues" by Nida Sinnokrot, while at the same time, there was a special mention to the greek film "Delta, Oil's Dirty Business" by Giorgos Avgeropoulos.

 Finally in the category of Short and Medium Length Films, the prize of 3.000€ was given to the film "Sinking Village" by Hungarian Marton Szirmai and a special mention was made for the film "Le Mammouth Pobalski" of French director Jacques Mitsch.