Tennis Maestro
Directed by Andrea Di Stefano
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Tiziano Menichelli, Giovanni Ludeno
Genre: Drama
Duration: 125′
Production Year, Country: 2025, Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: PG
A teen tennis prodigy struggles with his father’s expectations while embarking on a transformative coastal Italian training tour with his coach, an ex-champion who lost his way.
Opening Film • Premiere
Friday, 17 July • 20.30 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Venice Film Festival 2025
HEN
Directed by Gyorgy Palfi
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 96‘
Production Year, Country: 2025, Greece
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Rating: PG
With great power comes great responsibility. But what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives
Saturday, 18 July • 20.30 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Toronto IFF, San Sebastian, Tokyo
Gazelle
Directed by Nadir Saribacak, Samy Pioneer
Cast: Nadir Saribacak, Emine Bayindir, Abraham Taylor, Faysal Ahmed, Salem Hadeed
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100′
Production Year, Country: 2025, Türkiye, United States
Language: English, Turkish
Subtitles: Greek
Rating: PG
“Gazelle” unfolds the poignant journey of Yakup, a music teacher who, after losing his job due to political turmoil, seeks asylum in the US. Stranded from his family, he faces the grim reality of forging a new existence in New York. Caught between the lengthy ordeal of legal family reunification and the treacherous alternative of illegal means, Yakup decides to risk the latter with a smuggler. Engaging in various jobs to gather the necessary funds, he endeavors to persuade his wife, Ayşe, and daughter, Neşe, to embark on this perilous journey, jeopardizing their safety.
European Premiere
Saturday, 18 July • 22.45 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Vancouver International Film Festival 2025
Vanilla
Directed by Mayra Hermosillo
Cast: Aurora Dávila, María Castellá, Natalia Plascencia, Paloma Petra, Rosy Rojas, Fernanda Baca, Lola Ochoa
Genre: Drama
Duration: 124′
Production Year, Country: 2025, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: PG
In late 1980s Mexico, eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt, a struggle that reshapes how she sees herself and those around her.
Premiere
Sunday, 19 July • 20.30 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Giornate degli Autori 2025
Awards: 2025 Winner Silver Colon to Best Director at Huelva Latin American Film Festival, 2025 Audience Award at Morelia International Film Festival
Arsa
Directed by Masbedo
Cast: Gala Zohar Martinucci, Jacopo,Olmo Antinori, Tommaso Ragno, Lino Musella
Genre: Drama
Duration: 94‘
Production Year, Country: 2024, Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, Greek
Rating: PG
Eighteen-year-old Arsa lives at the edge of the world. The island she loves and has always lived on is a nature reserve and her job is to collect the rubbish that is washed up by the sea. Inspired by her father’s sculptures, Arsa remodels the objects that she finds, giving them a new life. Her days pass by in a time suspended between her universe of monsters and statues lost on the seabed and the humanity that she stares at from afar. When Andrea and his friends arrive on the island and invade h
Special Screening • Premiere
Monday, 20 July • 22.45 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Festa del Cinema di Roma 2024
Beachcomber
Directed by Aristotelis Maragkos
Cast: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne
Genre: Drama
Duration: 92‘
Production Year, Country: 2025, Greece
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Rating: PG
Inspired by the poetry of Nikos Kavvadias, Beachcomber is a tale of hope and resilience, where a dreamer’s quest to build an impossible vessel forces him to confront the toxic masculinity masking his true self.
Tuesday, 21 July • 22.45 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: BAFICI – International Competition 2025
Rosebush Pruning
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Cast: Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Lukas Gage
Robert, Jamie Bell, Jack
Riley Keough, Pamela Anderson
Genre: Fiction
Duration: 97‘
Production Year, Country: 2026, Germany, Italy
Language: English
Subtitles: Greek
Rating: 18
In an opulent villa beneath the Catalonian sun, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune, eschewing the demands of their blind father, and seeking love and validation through each other and their latest designer clothes. When Jack, the eldest brother and linchpin of this family, announces that he is moving in with his girlfriend Martha, blood ties are severed and Ed is forced to uncover the truth surrounding their mother’s death. Generational lies begin to unravel, and the fabric of this family slowly begins to disintegrate. A biting satire about the absurdity of the traditional patriarchal family.
Premiere
Wednesday , 22 July • 20.30 • Marianna Cinema
World Premiere: Berlinale 2026