Each summer ΕΜΣT transforms its rooftop into one of the most impressive outdoor cinemas in Athens, CineFIX, recalling the name of the former brewery in which it is housed. With panoramic views of the entire city, including the Acropolis, Museum’s rooftop terrace provides ideal conditions for the screening of works in moving image.
This June and July, CINEFIX turns up the temperature with HEAT—a film series that makes reference to our increasingly hot summers. HEAT is a film programme devoted to high temperatures in every sense: scorching climates, feverish desires, criminal passions, sleepless nights, dangerous seductions. A season of films where bodies glisten and sweat, tempers rise, asphalt melts, and nothing stays cool for long.
From steamy noir and cult classics to smouldering art-house masterpieces, HEAT brings together films set in sweltering cities, sticky apartments, burning streets, and emotional pressure cookers. Cinema where the weather is never just the weather—it is tension, lust, delirium, obsession. Old Hollywood meets European modernism; noir collides with sensual cinema and existential thrillers. Films by masters of atmosphere, desire, and danger, projected against the illuminated backdrop of summer Athens itself. Because some films are best watched in the heat.
TICKETS
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JULY
Thursday 2 July | 21:00
Lawrence Kasdan
Body Heat, 1981
113’
Body Heat (1981), Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut, is a steamy neo-noir thriller set during a sweltering Florida heatwave. Small-town lawyer Ned Racine becomes involved in a passionate affair with Matty Walker, the alluring wife of a wealthy businessman. As desire turns into obsession, the pair embark on a dangerous scheme that leads to murder, deception and betrayal, creating one of the most acclaimed film noirs of modern American cinema.
Language: English, with Greek subtitles.
Thursday 9 July | 21:00
Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing, 1989
120’
Do the Right Thing (1989), directed by Spike Lee, is a powerful social drama set during the hottest day of the summer in a Brooklyn neighborhood. As racial and social tensions rise among the community’s diverse residents, a series of everyday conflicts escalates into a dramatic confrontation, exploring themes of identity, justice, and coexistence in contemporary American society.
Language: English, with Greek subtitles.
JUNE
Friday 5 June | 20:30
The National Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates Athens Pride 2026
20:30 | Talk
“One century plus: The history of the LGBTQI+ community from Magnus Hirschfeld to the present”
Speakers: Konstantinos Giannakopoulos – Professor of Social Anthropology, University of the Aegean, Chloe Kolyri Lecturer and queer psychoanalyst, Grigoris Vallianatos – Political scientist, journalist
Moderator: Fivos Sakalis
The talk will be held in Greek.
21:15 | Film Screenings
Eva Stefani, Morning Glory, 2022, 2’26’’
Rosa von Praunheim, The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld, 1999, 96’
Language: German, with Greek subtitles.
Free admission. Advance booking is required.
Thursday 18 June | 21:00
Spike Lee
She’s Gotta Have It (Από κάποιον θα το βρει), 1986
84’
The screening has been canceled due to technical issues.
She’s Gotta Have It is a romantic dramedy directed by Spike Lee. The film follows Nola Darling, a confident, independent young woman living in Brooklyn, who is romantically involved with three very different men at the same time. Refusing to conform to society’s expectations about love and commitment, Nola struggles to balance her relationships while staying true to herself. As the men pressure her to choose between them, the story explores themes of personal freedom, identity, gender roles, and the complexities of modern relationships.
Language: English, with Greek subtitles.
Thursday 25 June | 21:00
Fritz Lang
The Big Heat (Η μεγάλη κάψα), 1953
89’
The Big Heat is a noir drama directed by Fritz Lang.The story follows Detective Dave Bannion, an upstanding police officer investigating an organised crime network deeply embedded in the city’s corrupt power structure. As he digs deeper, he discovers that crime and political influence are tightly linked, turning the case deadly. When the syndicate retaliates against his family, Bannion’s mission becomes a personal vendetta. The film explores themes of corruption, revenge, moral justice, and one man’s struggle against a broken system.
Language: English, with Greek subtitles.
MAY
Thursday 28 May | 21: 00
Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme
Le joli mai (The Lovely Month of May), 1963
145’
The iconic documentary by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme captures Paris in May 1962, immediately after the end of the Algerian War. Through conversations with the city’s residents—workers, students, intellectuals, passersby—the film composes a polyphonic portrait of French society at a moment of transition. A cinematic essay on everyday life, political consciousness, and the atmosphere of an era.
In French with Greek subtitles.
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