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Set in Cyprus is the 1950s. It is the story of a poor man who dreams of owning a violin and becoming a fiddler. But life and love get in the way and force him to make a choice between his passion and his responsibilities.
Tracing the life of activist Costis Achniotis, the film develops within the history of the Cypriot radical Left and the bicommunal movement for reunification. In parallel quests between the past and present and with an auto-ethnographic approach, the filmmakers bring together personal artifacts, new and archival material, exploring the dialectics and poetics of the ethnic clash and division in Cyprus.
Exclusive footage from classified espionage British bases on the island of Cyprus. Which countries and which satellites are being watched?
To Your Hands is a short documentary that explores the unique and unifying aspects of Cypriot cultural heritage. What began way back in 2021 as a multi-media installation has evolved into this short film.
At a salt lake, Alma sits on a bench, confronted by echoes of the past. As she revisits and reimagines, reality blends with longing, and memory becomes a landscape of its own. Vanishing Pink Remains is a short film about nostalgia, memory, and limerence--the emotional residue of moments lived, missed, or imagined.
How many ways are there to commit suicide? Can a suicide attempt be considered successful? Makis over-analyzes this subject, struggling to achieve the most ideal result.
Artemou (27), a girl from a rich family from a village in Cyprus, falls in love at first sight with their poor and working class man Petris (29), their love is doomed since her cruel rich mother (48) has other plans for her, she wants to marry her to the also rich man of the village Konstantinis (26) so that they can unite their fortunes and their money. Allied to their love is his sister Petri (27) with whom they make a plan for the wedding day of Artemous and Constantis.
The loss of loved ones and the tragic present become entangled with memories of the past. Hope and the struggle for survival alternate with despair and hopelessness. In the turmoil of the war and occupation, a young Turkish girl, Yasmin, refuses to stop searching for her great love, the Greek-Cypriot Telemachos, who has been taken prisoner by the Turkish occupying forces.
Four friends overcome their insecurities in surreal and unexpected ways after eating a plate of 'magic' beans.
A group of young filmmakers are trying to finish filming of their series pilot to catch a date with channelers and potential buyers. But when the protagonist of their series, abandons them at the last minute, things get out of control and panic reigns.
Vicious circles, mind games and black shadows. A young girl stands alone in front of a white canvas. Anxieties and fears spread across the canvas. Lost in space and time, she is looking for her way back, but in reality every journey ends where it started. The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
When a sensitive woman, Katerina, sees Elena, a child who lives in a neighboring apartment, with a bruise and being outside her apartment, she begins to suspect that she is being abused. She feels a strong need to help Elena escape the abusive situation that Katerina believes she is in.
[/spiti/ (noun): Greek for house, ] Alex is dealing with two losses; her father's sudden death, and the impending sale of her family house, that he had built as an architect. Trying to cope with this new reality, she starts forming a curious relationship with the house itself, and she unexpectedly falls in love with a girl. A personal guide on love and loss, set in the heat of the Greek summer, and narrated in parallel by the real people who lived in the house.
A 20-something heartbroken man reminisces about his doomed relationship as he walks through the streets.
Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc.
Documentary on the battle in Cyprus between English soldiers and EOKA insurgent Grigoris Afxentiou.
“Every Sunday” follows a group of Filipino domestic workers in Cyprus getting ready for a beauty pageant organised by their local community. The organizers and the participants use it as an opportunity to gather once a week - their only day off - as well as to redefine their position as migrant working women in Cypriot society and reclaim their individuality. Meanwhile, an unprecedented case of a serial killer targeting foreign female workers and their little daughters comes to the surface. With 4 of the victims being Filipino, the community, including the pageant’s participants and organizers, come together to react to the crime and pay their respects to the victims.This documentary examines gender, race, class and power relations that permeate Cypriot society, through a celebration that empowers the migrant working woman but also the horror these crimes and the institutional gaps that have allowed them.
Andreas, Stelios and Eleni are three pre-teen friends who decide to go on the ultimate adventure. Their plan; to infiltrate the mythical 'backroom' of their neighbourhood video store and steal a video tape that will make them the most famous kids in school! But things are about to take an unexpected turn when they realise that this room is a getaway to a secret club with some very special patrons.
With a broken car, a camera in hand and a half-built house in the distance, a photographer finds herself facing a deeper and more unsettling part of her desires than she hoped.
A scriptwriter, struggling in her ordinary world, suddenly enters a special world where everything changes. Going through this writing journey, she experiences the principles and stages of 'The Hero's Journey,' returning with a "writing key" as a writing master of two worlds. The stages of 'The Hero's Journey' shown in this short film can serve as a writing guide for the audience.
The local cinema in the village of Panayia that once used to be the vibrant centre of the village, has been closed for more than 30 years. This documentary follows the journey of two retired local men, and life-long friends, trying to reopen the cinema, in the hope of bringing people back to the village centre and reliving the good old times of their youth.
A woman with her daughter visits a ruined village in the middle of Cyprus flat land. Ex villagers, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots come to the ruins and each of them narrates a personal story of war. The conflict, which took place in 1964, transformed the peaceful, mixed village to a deserted area.
How does it feel to live in the most isolated place of the planet? Does time matter there? Do you only dream in white? These are some of the questions Alexandre Gautier, a French woodworker who works in the maintenance service for the infrastructure of the French scientific mission in Antarctica, tries to answer in this animated documentary. The film follows Alexandre’s train of thoughts about Antarctica, the vast whiteness of the continent, loneliness and the purpose of life. He recalls memories from the past, ponders on his current situation and sketches out his vision and dreams about the future, trying to give an answer to the ultimate question of “where is home?”
Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge in the hospital every evening to spend the night. He sleeps on the benches and chairs of the outpatients' wing because he is afraid to be alone. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually, however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to be built and Evgenia tries to help him.
Christian Orthodox tradition and travelling theatre troupes with their pagan roots are two seemingly opposite worlds, both mysterious and enchanting to the author.
A horror short film.
This documentary includes archive footage and memories told by Cypriots from both sides of the island of Venus. It is first attempt to reconsider memories of the period before and after the 1960s in Cyprus, while looking from both ethnic angles and bringing artistic and academic critique together.
Andreas is an irresponsible guy who owes money to the whole world. Suddenly he becomes the owner of a large inheritance. But to get it he has to find his missing brother. That's where things get complicated because three missing brothers show up. Who is the real one?
Arachne, the masterful weaver, spun tales of the gods’ misdeeds. But for weaving the truth, she was met with divine wrath, cruel and unrelenting.
A young refugee woman's internal journey, as she tries to come to terms with nostalgic recollections of her lost home and painful memories of the war that tore her life and family apart.
Fifty years after the coup and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Cypriot and foreign archaeologists, along with members of the Department of Antiquities' staff from that time, delve into personal memory, examine the collective trauma of war, and outline its impact on Cypriot archaeology. Weaving archival material from excavations with gripping personal testimonies, the documentary *"Skammata"* highlights significant moments in Cypriot archaeology, both before and after the tragic events of 1974.
As a family revisits diaries and cassettes recounting invasion and refugeehood, this film asks how history is mediated across generations.
A 35 year old son, buries his 27 year old father.
Maria is caught between childhood and adolescence. After the sudden death of her classmate, she is once again confronted with loss. As she attempts to cope with this absence, Maria tries to find her own way to bid her loved one farewell.
The second part of the series Cypriot Collage Stories sketches out the history of this Mediterranean island as a conflict of its two mothers – Aphrodite and Virgin Mary. Animations and collages are intertwined with found footage of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, revealing the obvious fact that modern conflicts are rooted in history.
The Athens Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yiannis Hadjiloizou, performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The choice of Cyprus is a call for reconciliation and coincides with Cyprus’s presidency of the Council of the EU
Telefilm in 2010
An octopus finds a vinyl record and plays the gramophone non-stop. The rest of the marine community wants to join the party despite the octopus's reluctance.
A horror short film.
'The box' is a short film about the beautiful moments that love can give us, if we dare to fight against our Monster-our insecurities and fears- and finally trust and share ourselves with someone who has the same feelings and beliefs. The movie aims to awake the hope for pure love and trustful meaningful relationships to our younger generation who seems to be lost and drugged into a social media and virtual reality.
The neighbors of an apartment building describe their own versions of what happened the night before in the next apartment. The couple of this apartment confirms, or not these descriptions. The reality, after all, is a matter of perspective.
A short animated film about censorship.
A poignant journey through time and war-torn memories. In 2016, Cyprus finds peace after 42 years of separation. Follow a Cypriot woman as she returns home, revisiting the scars of 1974's conflict. Based on real letters exchanged during the war, witness the emotional unraveling of a long-awaited past. Abandoned landscapes stand frozen, remnants of a divided past. This film, crafted in 2014 with hope for a united future, captures the essence of resilience and reconciliation.
A Puerto-Rican and an African-American woman build an unforgettable friendship that guides them and perseveres through the ordeals of racism, discrimination and disease in 1990s' Florida.
"Color the World" follows Kelly, an artist who feels her life's colors are fading away. How will she rediscover the colors of life and joy?
Little Human is the third part of my ‘Cyprus Collage Stories’ series. Stop motion collage mixes up with old and new film in order to tell the imaginary adventures of a very popular Cypriot weaving pattern called ‘little human’. This anthropomorphic design which looks like something between a knight and a spaceman begins a journey to find his real home out of the weaving fabric.
Introducing Horsin Dickler, who introduces the fundamental concepts surrounding the idea of explicit television.
Film from Danai Stylianou
Eliza works at a hotel resort, moving through a cycle of roles designed to always keep the guests satisfied. Behind the polished surface of the hotel, she struggles to balance an unseen private life, all while carrying a rare anatomical condition: she is physically unable to smile.
Cypriot-Greek and Turkish troops confronted each other on the “green line”. Confusion is caused on both sides by a noise in the quiet of the night…
On the 20th anniversary of the opening of crossing points, OVERCOMING tells the inspiring story of Cypriot women, queers, and antimilitarist cismen challenging militarism and gender norms. Through diverse interviews, the film explores how the opening and closing of the checkpoints, as the sole passageways between north and south, have impacted the lives of Cypriots while revealing their struggles against the ongoing division of the island and their efforts towards a more united future.
In a desperate attempt to survive, two deserters and a green beret try to reunite with their forces after the enemy unleashes its secret weapon.
A video installation dedicated to the poetess Niki Marangou. Footage from the Green Line dividing Cyprus. Niki Marangou’s poetry unfolds in an anarchic visual rendering. Images of Cyprus expand or become trapped, repeated or not. Their form is changing, the colors too. The Mediterranean as a woman, the poetess reflects the flows of immigration, of human drifting and displacement, but also the umbilical cord between memory and the freedom of traveling.
A documentary exploring the symbolism and the significance of salt in the Japanese culture through the artist Motoi Yamamoto. Through his art and personal experiences of loss we explore the ephemerality of our existence. It's about death, salt and art.