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Seize the night with Gratis Open Air Film Festival

Netherlands biggest and finest outdoor film festival ‘Pluk de Nacht’ in Amsterdam is reviving its another glorious edition in 2010 from 5 August, 2010 to 15 August, 2010. Since 2003 this grand festival is attracting thousands of visitors across Europe as well as local movie aficionado. This year also it is expected to draw a huge crowd. The grand open air summer film festival has been organized behind the Amsterdam Central Station on a peninsula in the river IJ this year. In this festival a movie will be shown every night on a huge outdoor screen without any charge. The best national and international films and documentaries that has not been released in theatres yet are show-cased here. These films are the films that have never been commercially screened by any of the major cinema chain. There are the unique selection of unreleased cinema, documentary, animation and shorts that suits the taste of everyone. After the completion of the movie there will tunes from different DJ. The movie will be shown after sunset around 9:30 p.m. when it becomes dark and in case the weather outside does not support movie will be shown in a tent. All the film are either English spoken or subtitled except La Pivellina (an Austrian/ Italian production) and Copacabana. Nice meal could be enjoyed at restaurant and bar. Beer, snacks and meal are available at stalls also. The whole set up is arranged nicely that includes camp fires, art projects that dots the viewing area, drinks and bites, comfy beach chair (on hire) and blankets for cool night. Entry to all festival activities and screening is free of cost. So enjoy the living room under the stars discovering the new movies on cool summer night.