Movies

A JAR OF NUTS

Director: Savvas Stavrou
Duration: 17'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: Savvas.stavrou@gmail.com
Production Company: Out of Focus Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2019

Isolated in his apartment, the lonely forty-year old Giorgos meticulously devises an intricate plan to take his life after his beloved mother chokes to death on a pistachio. As the day progresses, Giorgos allows excuses, obstacles and people to hinder his final deadly leap from the balcony, completely oblivious to the true reason behind all his stalling.

GIZEM

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

A Turkish-Cypriot woman assumes the identity of her deceased Greek-Cypriot friend and flees from war-ridden Cyprus to apartheid South Africa in 1974 to start a new life through an arranged marriage to a Greek-Cypriot man.

VASILES MICHAELIDES

Director: Thomas Kallis
Duration: 60'
Genre: Documentary
Contact: tthomkalli@yahoo.com
Production Company: Irida Productions - Cinema Advisory Committee
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2023

A documentary about the poet and painter Vassilis Michaelidis (1849 – 1917), who through his poems evokes his life story and the turbulent times he lived through.

THE UNFAIR LIFE OF VASSILIA BELOUSI

Director: Stelios Kammitsis
Duration: 90'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: felonyproductions.eu@gmail.com
Production Company: Felony Film Productions Ltd
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece, Netherlands
Completion Year: 2024

Vassilia has lost contact with the world for some years. When her daughters reunite to organise her fancy 80th birthday party, the youngest one has a plan: to leave Vasilia to her sisters and finally continue with her life. Along with all the differences and traumas of the past, there comes “the elephant in the room”: who is going to take responsibility for their demented mother now?

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.

THE ASYLUM SEEKERS

Director: Michael Hapeshis
Duration: 97'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: cyprusfilmfactory@gmail.com
Production Company: Michael Hapeshis and Aggelos Argyroullis
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece, United Kingdom
Completion Year: 2023

A group of immigrants arrives in Euroville, a city representing the changing values and society of modern Europe. They stumble upon a corpse which represents the culture and traditions they need to leave behind in order to be assimilated into the new society. The whole film is expended in going from one department to another in a crazy system, trying to establish what is required for them to get rid of the corpse.

BUFFER ZONE

Director: Savvas Stavrou
Duration: 16'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: Savvas Stavrou - savvas.stavrou@googlemail.com
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, UK
Completion Year: 2023

Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and escape their oppressive circumstances through music.

EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY

Director: Kyros Papavassiliou
Duration: 110'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: marios@filmworks.com.cy
Production Company: A.M.P. Filmworks
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece
Completion Year: 2022

In a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple’s relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Director: Costas Chrysanthou
Duration: 13'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: The Coffee Films
Production Company: The Coffee Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2020

In a village, an old blacksmith tries to complete a lifelong dream of constructing a lighthouse. As he struggles with his past, a young boy arrives as an unexpected aid.