Hellas Filmbox Berlin is a Greek film festival established in 2015 to highlight the current, highly artistic Greek film scene and present it to a German audience. Films are a unique source to communicate and a great medium through which to expand alternate ways of thinking and seeing Greece and its culture.

The main aim of the festival is to promote and strengthen the German-Greek friendship and the European spirit in Berlin and all over Germany through cultural projects.

The film festival will run from January 21 to January 24, 2016, at the Babylon cinema theater in eastern Berlin and will screen films of the New Greek Cinema.

“Primarily, HELLAS FILMBOX BERLIN aspires to be a platform for ‘New Greek Cinema.’ It wants to provide insight into Greece’s current situation, its people, inner conflicts and secrets. To see this land through the eyes of its cinematographers should give the German audience a clear, direct and honest experience – one that is almost impossible to gain through the German media these days. Greek films have far more to say about the crisis happening in Greece than daily German newspapers,” the official HELLAS FILMBOX BERLIN website says.