Cinemas in Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki is a film city first: it hosts Greece's main film festival, keeps a handful of old single-screen halls alive in the centre and runs open-air cinemas all summer. Here is every cinema in the city, with what is playing and when.

The heart of the city's cinema life is Aristotelous Square, where the Olympion building houses two halls run by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Olympion and the Pavlos Zannas. A short walk down to the port, Warehouse 1 holds two more festival screens, Stavros Tornes and John Cassavetes, next to the Cinema Museum. Between festivals these four halls run a year-round programme of new releases, arthouse titles and Film Library seasons. The Thessaloniki International Film Festival takes over the city every November and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival every March, and those are the two weeks when locals queue around the square.

Around them sits a cluster of independent city-centre cinemas. Vakoura on Ioannou Michail, Makedonikon on Filikis Etaireias at the corner of Ethnikis Amynis, Kolossaion on Vasilissis Olgas and Odeon Plateia on Tsimiski at Aristotelous all show first-run films within walking distance of each other, and Artbox Fargani near Kamara, a historic former cinema, now mixes screenings with theatre and live events. For the big-screen multiplex format, head east to Pylaia, where Village Cosmos inside Mediterranean Cosmos and Village Makedonia Mall (the former Options) each have eleven screens and free parking, or west of the centre to Cineplexx One Salonica on Giannitson, which includes an IMAX hall. The municipal cinema of Neapoli-Sykies covers the western districts.

Films are shown in the original language with Greek subtitles; only children's animation usually gets a dubbed Greek version alongside the subtitled one. From late spring to late September the city moves outdoors to its open-air cinemas, such as Natali on the seafront boulevard, Alex and Apollon in the centre and Ellinis at the fairgrounds, which have their own page on Mood. Use the listings below to filter by film, cinema or day.