The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) will launch its summer rooftop film programme, CINEFIX, on July 2, using the climate reality of increasingly punishing Mediterranean summers as its creative anchor.
The open-air series, titled "HEAT," explores rising temperatures both literally and metaphorically, drawing together cult classics, neo-noir thrillers and art-house works in which oppressive weather doubles as a canvas for psychological tension, simmering desire and criminal intent.
The programme opens Thursday, July 2, with "Body Heat" (1981), Lawrence Kasdan's neo-noir directorial debut, set against a suffocating Florida heatwave as a small-town lawyer is drawn into a lethal plot of deception. It is followed Thursday, July 9, by Spike Lee's landmark "Do the Right Thing" (1989), which charts a single, blistering summer day in Brooklyn as racial and social tensions boil over into community confrontation.
All screenings take place on the museum's rooftop, against the backdrop of the illuminated Athens skyline. Films will be shown in their original English with Greek subtitles. Tickets cost 4 euros, and organisers say seats must be reserved in advance through the EMST website.
The programme arrives as Greece, like much of southern Europe, faces increasingly severe and prolonged summer heatwaves, a climate shift that has reshaped everything from working hours to tourism patterns — and now, it seems, the country's cultural calendar as well.