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Frames Between the Tamarisks
Film, light, and sea, the quiet magic of Enastron at Paros Park
zazala team
photo | doctv.gr
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t dusk, the path above Monastiri Beach begins to change. The tamarisk trees darken, the air cools, and the stone terraces of Cine Enastron slowly fill with people waiting for the screen to light up.Set inside Paros Park, on the peninsula of Agios Ioannis Detis, Cine Enastron is one of the island’s most atmospheric summer rituals. It is open-air cinema at its purest: a screen beneath the stars, the sea close by, and the night settling gently around every story.
For 2026, the programme returns from June to September with a generous selection of films for children, anniversary screenings, tributes, documentaries, contemporary world cinema, Greek films and classic works of the big screen. It is a season that moves between memory and discovery, bringing together cinema lovers, families, locals and visitors in the open landscape of the Park.
A Cinema of Encounters
The opening block brings Rebellious, shown in Greek for children, followed by Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, presented as a 20th anniversary screening for World Refugee Day. Soon after, The Summer With Carmen begins the tribute to Zacharias Mavroeidis, honouring LGBTQ+ Pride Month, while The New Boy, with Cate Blanchett, brings the atmosphere of 1940s Australia to the summer screen.
From there, the programme expands into different cinematic paths: Palestine, archaeology, Greek cinema, animation and Italian auteurs. Early July includes A World Not Ours, part of the tribute to Palestine, The Enigma of Keros, a documentary connected to one of the most important Cycladic archaeological mysteries, Defunct by Zacharias Mavroeidis, ARCO for children, and Antonioni’s legendary Blow Up, presented as a 60th anniversary screening.
Tributes, Classics and Greek Voices
The tribute to Zacharias Mavroeidis continues with Defunct, The Guide and Across Her Body, moving from social comedy and identity crisis to documentary observation and the fading tradition of the “Dekapente” in Thirassia. These screenings give the programme a distinct Greek presence, personal, contemporary and open to conversation.
The classic cinema strand brings milestone anniversary screenings and major works from different decades. Gilda, presented for its 80th anniversary, arrives with a presentation by film critic and writer Giorgos Xanthakis. Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann’s explosive version of Shakespeare, returns for its 30th anniversary. Later in the season, George Stevens’ Giant marks its 70th anniversary, while Stand by Me closes the programme’s classic coming-of-age line with a 40th anniversary screening.
Italian cinema also has a strong place this year. Fellini’s 8½ brings the crisis and mystery of creation to the screen, while Bertolucci’s monumental 1900 is presented in two parts in September, treated as a true cinematic diptych.
A Parian Night for Cinema
There are places where a film is simply watched. At Cine Enastron, the experience begins before the first image appears.
You walk through the trees. You hear the evening sounds of the Park. You find your place under the sky. Around you, the audience gathers without rush, and the landscape becomes part of the screening.
This is what makes Cine Enastron feel so naturally Parian. It brings cinema into the open air without losing intimacy. It belongs to the same summer rhythm as a walk by the sea, a late swim, a conversation after sunset.
From June to September, Cine Enastron 2026 turns Paros Park into a meeting point for film, memory, children’s imagination, documentary truth, classic cinema and shared summer nights.
