In the K Pages, we recently highlighted a serious issue that has arisen regarding the two central cinemas of Athens, Ideal and Astor, which are facing closure due to a decision to change the use of the buildings in which they are located. (owner) EFKA. The Hellenic Film Academy is now also taking a stand on the issue, which yesterday sent an open letter to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asking for his personal intervention to save the two cinemas.

“Cinemas under threat are not only the last two cinemas in the capital. These are the last two cinemas in the country. Dark rooms are an integral part of modern culture. This is the ancestral home of the seventh art. We must invest their priceless capital in culture. We ask for your personal intervention in order to add provisions for the protection of the cinemas in question to the current investment program, as well as to create a legislative framework for the protection of winter cinemas, as was done in the past with summer cinemas, ”EAK notes. typical.

And the last mention comes from a ministerial decision in 1997, which classified the use of 47 Athens summer cinemas as mothballed, as a result of which they were saved and (most) are still in operation. In addition, the academy referred to recent statements by the prime minister himself at the Thessaloniki Festival, where the development of audiovisual production in the country was discussed. “How bitter this boom will seem if there are no theaters that will house the works that will be staged,” he concludes.