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The third edition of the Evia Film Project opens Tuesday, with this year’s festival centring on ‘Water’ in all its forms – from the sea (in this case the azure Aegean) to waterfalls – and humankind’s dependence on it. This choice of this watery theme is far from random: Evia, Greece's second-largest island, hit the headlines in 2021 when tore through 46,000 hectares of forest and farmland in the island’s north following a lengthy heatwave. The destruction laid bare the stark reality of climate change-induced extreme weather – and the catastrophic consequences of an absence of water.

Running across three locations in northern Evia, the festival-come-ecological initiative is an offshoot of the , Greece’s most prominent film festival. What started out as “offering support to a stricken area, has become something bigger” Elise Jalladeau, Director General of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, told Euronews Culture. The Evia Film Project “aims to interweave the art of cinema with environmental awareness, while promoting a series of actions that boost local society,” she said.



The 2024 screening programme ranges from Turkish-French drama (2002) directed by Emin Alper and the adventures of Jacques Cousteau in (2016) by Jérôme Salle, to crowd hits such as 1975 icon and family favourite (2016). Greek films showing include Alexandros Voulgaris' (2019) and Kostas Karydas' exploration of undersea caves in (2024). Watching films is only part of the .

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