Feature Films

A SUMMER PLACE

Director: Alexandra Matheou
Duration: 21'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: elise@shortcuts.pro
Production Company: Out of Focus Films and This Is The Girl Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, France, Greece
Completion Year: 2021

Summer is a permanent state of mind in Limassol, a once small seaside town in Cyprus that has transformed into the oligarch paradise of the Mediterranean. Within this asphyxiating environment, Tina, a depressed food stylist, is ready to give up on everything on the day of her birthday, until an extraordinary encounter changes her life.

NALA AND STELLA

THE ISLANDER

Director: Stelana Kliris
Duration: 100'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: merakifilmscyprus@gmail.com
Production Company: Meraki Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2023

THE ISLANDER follows a musician in crisis (Connick Jr.) as he moves, sight unseen, to a remote cliffside house on an island, only to discover his new home has an unfortunate notoriety. Through a series of charming mishaps, it turns out maybe love can be found right where he left it.

CYPRUS SOIL MAFIA

Director: Paris Erotokritou
Genre: Fiction
Contact: tonia@barklikeacat.com
Production Company: Bark Like A Cat Films
Completion Year: 2022

A comedy mockumentary short, involving a retired low-level agent of the Dutch Agricultural Intelligence Agency (Hors van Dijk) and a Cypriot dodgy entrepreneur, “Papa”, the biggest exporter of Cyprus potatoes. Together they devise a disastrous plot to sell soil at the price of potatoes in Europe

THE FIRST CYPRIOT ASTRONAUT

Director: Stavros Pamballis
Duration: 100'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: Joyce Pierpoline joyce@pierpolinefilms.com
Production Company: Boycott Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, UK
Completion Year: 2023

In the run-up to a referendum that could unite his long-divided nation, or tear it apart for-ever, a physics professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s discovers an unused Soviet Space Capsule, and a second chance at fulfilling a crazy childhood dream.

Snow White Dies at the End

Director: Kristijan Risteski
Duration: 105'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: dinos@carettafilms.com.cy
Production Company: Caretta Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): North Macedonia, Cyprus
Completion Year: 2022

Shown through three different threads, the film is a tale of three groups of humans, one fly, one piglet, one toilet bowl and one city, whose paths cross and impact one another. A story about how tremendously difficult it is to remain honest and true to your own values in a morally corrupt environment.

PAINT ME A LIE

Director: Antony Petrou
Duration: 14'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: tonia@barklikeacat.com
Production Company: Bark Like A Cat Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, UK, Sardinia
Completion Year: 2022

When a teenager falls victim of a brutal attack. No good deed may temper the harm caused by hate and prejudice…

MARICEL

Director: Elias Demetriou
Duration: 110'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: monica@filmblades.com
Production Company: Filmblades Filming Solutions
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece
Completion Year: 2023

A Filipino domestic worker is called upon to help an elderly couple in a mountain village in Cyprus, something that seems a quite easy task, but at the end of the day it will become obvious that it wasn’t that easy.

TO THE MOON AND BACK

Director: Stelana Kliris
Duration: 12'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: stelanak@gmail.com
Production Company: Meraki Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2018

A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.