Olives and Greek Olive Oil Museum-One story is not enough!/Summer film tribute
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The Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation is organising a summer outdoor film tribute entitled “One Story Is Not Enough!”, at the open-air venue of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil Museum in Sparta. Screenings will take place every two weeks during July and August, inviting the public to enjoy a unique cinematic experience under the summer sky. The tribute brings together Greek and international films by acclaimed filmmakers, whose narratives unfold through individual, self-contained stories.
Detailed screening programme:
Wednesday, 8th July 2026 | 21:00
Father Mother Sister Brother
USA–Italy–France–Germany–Ireland | 2025 | Duration: 110’
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, India Moore, Luka Sabbat
A triptych of stories set in the USA, Ireland, and France creates a moving cinematic mosaic centred on family relationships. Through reunions, distances, and silences, the protagonists confront the past and the emotions that continue to shape their lives.
The film was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2025.
Wednesday, 22nd July 2026 | 21:00
The Counterfeit Coin (I Kaltiki Lira)
Greece | Black and White | 1955 | Duration: 118’
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas
Starring: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilya Livykou, Sperantza Vrana, Mimis Fotopoulos, Orestis Makris, Elli Lambeti, Dimitris Horn
In the first Greek anthology film to become a landmark of national cinema, the journey of a counterfeit gold coin connects four distinct stories: the struggle of an honest goldsmith, the adventure of a beggar, the dream of a young girl for a better life, and the love story between a poor painter and a wealthy heiress. As the coin changes hands, the desires, illusions, and hopes of the people who encounter it are revealed.
Wednesday, 5th August 2026 | 21:00
New York Stories
USA | 1989 | Duration: 124’
Directors: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
Starring: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Giancarlo Giannini, Talia Shire, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
Three independent stories by renowned filmmakers present different perspectives on the city that never sleeps. In the first, a celebrated painter struggles with his obsessions while his lover threatens to leave him. In the second, a twelve-year-old girl experiences an unexpected adventure in a luxury hotel, searching for a way to reunite her separated parents. In the third, a successful lawyer faces his overbearing mother shortly before his wedding.
Wednesday, 19th August 2026 | 21:00
Everything Is a Road (Ola Einai Dromos)
Greece | 1998 | Duration: 118’
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris
Starring: Dimitris Katalifos, Kostas Kazanas, Thanasis Veggos, Giorgos Armenis
Three parallel journeys in the countryside of Northern Greece reveal the loneliness and dead ends faced by the protagonists: an archaeologist at Philippi haunted by a personal tragedy; an elderly gamekeeper accompanying ornithologists in search of the last lesser white-fronted goose in the Evros Delta; and a wounded factory owner seeking consolation in a provincial nightclub.
Giorgos Armenis received the Best Actor Award at the State Film Awards of the Ministry of Culture (1998).
For more information, you may contact the Museum by phone at 27310 89315 (daily, except Tuesday, 10:00–18:00).
