Watch on Onassis YouTube <br> From July 16, 2020

This week, the Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights will be sharing major moments and award-winning films screened in 2019, its twenty-fifth anniversary year.

Yorgos Goussis “wrestles” with dreams, and with the realities of life in the Greek countryside with “The Arm Wrestler”, a short that toys with both documentary and fiction forms. Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis transports us to mountain wilds, and into the relationships that grow on a hunt for animals and humans with his award-winning film “All the Fires the Fire”. Fokion Xenos spins a refreshing tale in the midst of a heatwave on a Greek island in his award-winning animated short “Heatwave”. Alkis Papastathopoulos shows us what love tastes like when you’re “Hyped”. Konstantinos Prepis enters the abandoned Ellinikon airport to present the adventures of a homeless man heading to destinations unknown in “Ellinikon”.