Nine films open in Greek cinemas on 22 October, led by Juliette Binoche's Queen at Sea and DC's Clayface

Nine titles reach Greek screens

Nine new films open in Greek cinemas on Thursday, 22 October 2026. Four focus on human themes and social issues, four are thrillers with horror elements, and one is a children's animation, according to the weekly listings. Among the openings are the drama Queen at Sea, the Finnish musical drama A Light That Never Goes Out, the second part of the historical epic De Gaulle: Towards Freedom and the Greek documentary Allou o Dromos. Clayface, billed as the first superhero horror film from DC Studios, is expected to draw strong box-office interest.

Queen at Sea and its family drama

Lance Hammer directs Queen at Sea, which comes 18 years after Ballast, the award-winning feature that was his earlier film. Juliette Binoche plays Amanda, a 50-year-old teacher who moves to London to be near her mother Leslie, an 80-year-old with dementia, while refusing to fully trust her 85-year-old stepfather Martin. Tom Courtenay plays Martin and Anna Calder-Marshall plays Leslie, with Florence Hunt also in the cast. The plot turns when Amanda sees the couple having sex and calls the police, arguing that Leslie can no longer consent, which sets off a chain of events involving social services, care institutions and the wider family. The film was awarded at the Berlin festival, according to the listing. Listings disagree on the production countries: one gives the United States and the United Kingdom, another England and France.

Clayface and A Quiet Life

Clayface runs 108 minutes and is directed by James Watkins, with a screenplay co-written by Mike Flanagan. Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie star. Matt Hagen, a rising actor from Gotham City's poorer neighbourhoods, is left horribly disfigured after a gangster attack and turns to an experimental treatment that gives him shape-changing abilities along with serious side effects. A Quiet Life, directed by Alexandros Avranas and running 99 minutes, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and reaches Greek cinemas at the Tainiothiki after a long delay. It is set in Sweden in 2018, where a Russian family with young daughters has sought refuge after a paramilitary attack nearly killed the father. When the Migration Agency rejects their asylum application, the younger daughter falls into an unexplained coma, and Dzhulpan Khamatova and Grigory Dobrygin star.

Box office

Verity's Diary regained the top spot with 10,000 tickets and has reached 65,000 in total. The Heart of the Beast is at 81,000 tickets after a slow and steady run, while NAZA, a documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on Israeli military methods in Gaza, has 17,000. Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Franco-Japanese film Etsi Xafnika has 3,000 tickets so far; it runs three and a half hours, is set in an elderly care centre and partly follows a woman with terminal cancer.

The Heart of the Beast81,000

Verity's Diary65,000

NAZA17,000

Etsi Xafnika3,000

The Heart of the Beast

81000 tickets

Verity's Diary

65000 tickets

NAZA

17000 tickets

Etsi Xafnika

3000 tickets

Data from the article text

The listings give no opening-weekend figures yet for this week's nine releases.