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Parthenon Film Festival | Halkidiki | July 14-16

Parthenon Film Festival | Halkidiki | July 14-16

For the third summer in a row, the beautiful mountain village of Parthenonas in Greece’s Halkidiki region will host a film festival featuring Greek, American, Swedish and French cinema classics. Among them is the Nicolas Kolovos’s 2015 short “Fig,” Jacques Demy's 1964 romantic musical “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (French), starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo, and the 1985 American romantic fantasy comedy “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” written and directed by Woody Allen.

The films will all be screened outdoors under the night sky in the village’s main square, starting at 9.30 p.m., and will have Greek subtitles. Admission is free.

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