Outdoor Movies | Open Air Cinema | Backyard Theater » Croatia http://www.openaircinema.us/blog Outdoor Movies and Open Air Cinema with an Inflatable Backyard Theater Screen Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Top 10 Outdoor Cinemas in Europe http://www.openaircinema.us/blog/2010/top-10-outdoor-cinemas-europe/ http://www.openaircinema.us/blog/2010/top-10-outdoor-cinemas-europe/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:07:53 +0000 Open Air Cinema http://blog.openaircinema.us/blog/?p=7506

Spotted By Locals has posted an interesting article highlighting the best outdoor cinemas in . With their permission we post the following list of the best 10 (in alphabetical order):

1. Athens – Outdoor cinema Zefyros (by Lambros Papadopoulos)
“Its location is a serious advantage. is one of the most beautiful areas of …”

2. Barcelona -Sala Montjuic open air cinema (by Yolanda Molinero)
“Time to open the wine bottle! You didn’t bring any food with you? No worries!”

3. Geneva – Ciné Transat Parc la Perle du Lac (by Lorcan Meyfarth)
“The scenery is beautiful, the movie is free, and deckchairs are available to borrow… ”

4. Hamburg – Freiluftkino in 4 different venues (by Valeska Bolze)
“…have fun to hear the funny German voices in one of your favourite movies…”

5. Helsinki outdoor movies at Helsinki Festival (by Nea Barman)
“This free open-air cinema is best that the city can offer in my opinion…”

6. Munich Open Air Kino (by Emily Rasch)
“It’s a great place to take a date – or a romantic place to be surprised with one…”

7. Paris – Cinéma au Clair de Lune outside cinema (by Fred Moussaïan)
“…. even if you don’t understand the language, it is worth going there, for the friendly and laid-back atmosphere…”

8. Zagreb – Summer Festival open air cinema (by Karla Lončar)
“It’s pretty secluded, which usually makes it very special among younger couples or people…”

9. Zurich – Orange Cinema (by Roman Rey)
” …you sit on the shore, watching a popcorn flick and have the whole beautiful view of the lake surrounding the screen. Isn’t that something?”


Pluk de Nacht

10. And one of Holland’s favorite outdoor cinema festivals – currently on in , is Pluk de nacht.

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Outdoor Movies at the Pula Film Festival in Pula, CroatiaOne of the oldest outdoor film festivals in , the Film Festival was first inaugurated as an international film festival in 1953, on the initiative of Mr. Marijan Rotar. It was the main film event in Yugoslavia from 1954 to its disintegration. Its famous settings for outdoor movie screenings give it popular and international appeal. Numerous journalists and film artists from the country and abroad including stars like Orson Welles, Sophia Loren, Sam Peckinpah, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Yul Brinner and others visit the Festival.

From 1992, Pula hosted the Croatian film festival and in 2001 it again acquired the status of an international festival with awards for best foreign films. Many Croatian award winners from the Pula Film Festival were very successful at foreign festivals: Tu, Maršal, Svjedoci, Ta divna splitska noć, Fine mrtve djevojke, Put lubenica… During the last fifteen years the Festival has attracted many foreign visitors among whom the stars like John Malkovich, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kinglsey, Jeremy Irons, producer Branko Lustig and directors Philip Noyce and Jiri Menzel.

Vespasian’s Arena, which has been hosting the festival since its beginnings, has given it the status of one of the three biggest and most spectacular open-air festivals in Europe. It can seats up to 8000 visitors at the outdoor movie screenings under the starry sky.

Official Website: http://www.pulafilmfestival.hr/en/index.php

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Open-Air Vienna Mozart Film Festival With Outdoor MoviesThe annual Vienna Mozart Film Festival on the square in front of the Vienna City Hall in Austria is aimed at presenting musical masterpieces to a wide and diverse audience. Outdoor movies are shown which include the great composer’s work. In 2006, the festival put the spotlight on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with a Music Film Festival in the square in front of City Hall with operas and classical music films projected onto a giant screen, free of charge. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra opened the festival with a live performance.

Given the great success of the Rathausplatz Film Festival, the Vienna Mozart Music Film Festivals 2006 was organised in selected Eastern European cities as a kind of European urban project. The major cities of (), Brno (), Bratislava (), (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), (), Ljubljana (), and () participated in showing outdoor movies. Every evening for a period of time during the summer months, a highly frequented square in each of these cities was turned into a large open-air cinema, screening music films with free admission. The majority of the music was by Mozart, but the programmes also included operas by other composers, and even musical theatre. An excellent selection of culinary specialties rounded off the programme.

For more than one week outdoor movies and music by the unforgettable genius captivated thousands of viewers on Bratislava’s main square in the old city. From a very early age Wolfgang “Amadé” Mozart was a much-travelled artist. As part of the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 the open air Film Festival, following the system successfully applied in front of Vienna City Hall, set out on a tour of nine central and east European cities. The Festival, which started in June in Brno, came to a festive closure on October 1st with outdoor movies in Zagreb.

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Outdoor Movies at the Motovun Film Festival, Croatia

About the Festival

Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independent productions, films that broke out through their innovation, ideas, and the power of their stories. In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, wants to be a small festival showing small outdoor movies, small in the warmest sense of the word.

Motovun Film Festival is a five-day film marathon in which outdoor movie screenings alternate from 10 a.m. until 4 a.m., with evening outdoor screenings and daily screenings in theatres. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from shorts to long forms, from guerilla made films to co productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival with their innovations. This year the festival is being held for the tenth time.

Why the Festival?

In the year of the first MFF in cities across cinema theatres were being closed down. That’s why they renovated an old, long-closed theatre in a small medieval town of Motovun and we made the main square into an outdoor movie venue.

On the very day of the opening of the first MFF, on August 10, 1999, there was not even one non-Hollywood film being shown in Croatian cinemas. Not even one out of around 3000 titles that are produced outside of big studios every year. That’s why films were chosen that were made all over the world.

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Open Air Cinema Hosts Mediterranean Film Festival in Split, CroatiaThe first Mediterranean Film Festival was officially opened in an open-air cinema with The Edge of Heaven, directed by Fatih Akin, winner of the best screenplay award last year in Cannes. The film by this famous German-Turkish director deals with the relationship between East and West. It is a complex story about lives intertwined.

A crowd in front of the open-air cinema Bacvice hasn’t been seen in years and shows that Split has a movie audience and potential; the Mediterranean Film Festival will certainly become one of Split’s attractions. More than 500 people broke the cinema’s record, extra chairs had to be provided and even that wasn’t enough. Festival director Alen Munitić and producer Tanja Prpić Marenić were extremely satisfied and said they were hoping the rest of the festival will be as attended as it was on the opening night. The idea for the festival was born two years ago and last night was a great acknowledgment to see it realized. Director and producer also thanked the City of Split and the sponsors for their support.

The festival started in the morning in Zlatna Vrata open air cinema with the projection of The Edge of Heaven. The first films from the retrospective program, made by Tanja Vrvilo, were shown in the afternoon. The selected films are the works of cult directors from 1960s onwards. These movies are borderline of film art and their genres range from documentary essays and political films to experiments that deal with the issue of film itself and the nature of the film image. Even though they use different approaches they all have one thing in common and that is the Mediterranean culture.

In spite of somewhat more alternative retrospective program and summer heat, the cinema was almost full which promised success even before the official opening. After the films, music took over with Arsen Dedic in the Aquarium on Bacvice. It was a performance to remember. After that Party Tanja and Super Mario, duo La musique fantastique, took the stage and threw a memorable party, ending the first day of the Mediterranean Film festival and making it a part of Croatian cultural life.
We can say the audience got hooked on the festival!

The Mediterranean Film Festival Split is a new cultural event in that took place for the first time from May 27th – May 31st. The Festival took place in the immediate center of the city of Split, in the 1700 years old historic part of the city.

The visitors were able to see a competition of 15 films from the Mediterranean region in an outdoors open cinema as well as indoors in a closed cinema. Besides that, there was a Mediterranean retrospective that consisted of 10 films.

Also, it offered other events throughout the day and during evenings such as different exhibitions, presentations, lectures, concerts and a round table on a subject of the Mediterranean culture and other interactive programs.

The aim of the Festival is to present the city of Split and Croatia, as well the rich Mediterranean culture and film production in the best way possible and to reach a wider population of audience that doesn’t have an opportunity to see these films in a cinema distribution.

With high-quality films, as well as concerts, exhibitions and round tables, the festival showed the true Mediterranean colors of Split and, hopefully will become an important meeting place for international filmmakers and film industry professionals in this part of and world.

Official Website: http://www.splitmedfilmfest.com/home_eng.html

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Outdoor movies and inflatable movie screens have been appearing in locations all around the world. Over time we will be adding links to articles about outdoor movies and open air cinema events. These articles are listed according to the country where the inflatable movie screen has been set up or the country where the outdoor movie event takes place.

A

B

C

D

E

  • East Timor – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
  • Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador
  • Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt
  • El Salvador – Republic of El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea – Republic of Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea – State of Eritrea
  • Estonia – Republic of Estonia
  • Ethiopia – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

F

  • Falkland Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Faroe Islands (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of Denmark)
  • Fiji – Republic of the Fiji Islands
  • Finland – Republic of Finland
  • France – French Republic
  • French Polynesia (French overseas collectivity)

G

H

I

J

  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey – Bailiwick of Jersey (British Crown dependency)
  • Jordan – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

K

  • Kazakhstan – Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Kenya – Republic of Kenya
  • Kiribati – Republic of Kiribati
  • Korea, North – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Korea, South – Republic of Korea
  • Kosovo – Republic of Kosovo
  • Kuwait – State of Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyz Republic

L

  • Laos – Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Latvia – Republic of Latvia
  • Lebanon – Republic of Lebanon
  • Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho
  • Liberia – Republic of Liberia
  • Libya – Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania – Republic of Lithuania
  • Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

M

  • Macao – Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)
  • Macedonia – Republic of Macedonia
  • – Republic of
  • Malawi – Republic of Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives – Republic of Maldives
  • Mali – Republic of Mali
  • Malta – Republic of Malta
  • Marshall Islands – Republic of the Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania – Islamic Republic of Mauritania
  • Mauritius – Republic of Mauritius
  • Mayotte – Departmental Collectivity of Mayotte (French overseas collectivity)
  • Mexico – United Mexican States
  • Micronesia – Federated States of Micronesia
  • Moldova – Republic of Moldova
  • Monaco – Principality of Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat (UK overseas territory)
  • Morocco – Kingdom of Morocco
  • Mozambique – Republic of Mozambique
  • For “Myanmar”, see Burma

N

  • Nagorno-Karabakh – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh)
  • Namibia – Republic of Namibia
  • Nauru – Republic of Nauru
  • Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
  • Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
  • New Caledonia – Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies (French community sui generis)
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua
  • Niger – Republic of Niger
  • Nigeria – Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Niue (Associated state of New Zealand)
  • Norfolk Island – Territory of Norfolk Island (Australian overseas territory)
  • Northern Cyprus – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
  • Northern Mariana Islands – Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US commonwealth)
  • For “North Korea”, see Korea, North
  • Norway – Kingdom of Norway

O

P

  • Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan
  • Palau – Republic of Palau
  • Palestine – Palestinian Territories
  • Panama – Republic of Panama
  • Papua New Guinea – Independent State of Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay
  • For “People’s Republic of China”, see China
  • Peru – Republic of Peru
  • Philippines – Republic of the Philippines
  • Pitcairn Islands – Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Poland – Republic of Poland
  • Portugal – Portuguese Republic
  • For “Pridnestrovie”, see Transnistria
  • Puerto Rico – Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (US commonwealth)

Q

R

S

T

  • Taiwan – Republic of China
  • Tajikistan – Republic of Tajikistan
  • Tanzania – United Republic of Tanzania
  • Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand
  • For “Timor-Leste”, see East Timor
  • Togo – Togolese Republic
  • Tokelau (Overseas territory of New Zealand)
  • Tonga – Kingdom of Tonga
  • Transnistria – Transnistrian Moldovan Republic
  • Trinidad and Tobago – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tristan da Cunha (Dependency of the UK overseas territory of Saint Helena)
  • Tunisia – Tunisian Republic
  • Turkey – Republic of Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Tuvalu

U

V

  • Vanuatu – Republic of Vanuatu
  • Vatican City – State of the Vatican City
  • – Bolivarian Republic of
  • Vietnam – Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • Virgin Islands, British – British Virgin Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Virgin Islands, United States – United States Virgin Islands (US organized territory)

W

  • Wallis and Futuna – Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands (French overseas collectivity)
  • Western Sahara – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Y

  • Yemen – Republic of Yemen

Z

  • For “Zaire”, see Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Zambia – Republic of Zambia
  • Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe
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