Movies

MILK – ROSE

75-year old Pandelis seeks shelter from the calamities of life in his memories.

EVERY SUNDAY

A group of Filipino domestic workers in Cyprus prepare for a beauty pageant organised by the local community. The participants use it as an opportunity to gather once a week – their only day off – and 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, causing the reaction of the Filipino community.

CYPRUS SOIL MAFIA

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.

Ζητάτε να σας πω

A group of fifteen-year-olds decides to break into the house of a quirky old woman with the intention of theft. PANAGIOTIS, the hero of our story, takes her wallet and leaves for his home. However, his regrets do not leave him in peace, and so he decides to return the wallet to its owner. This causes a relationship to develop between them, little Panagiotis and the quirky old woman, a relationship that at the end of the day leads both heroes to redemption.

RITES OF SPRING

Travelling theatre troupes with their pagan roots and Christian Orthodox tradition are two seemingly opposite worlds, both mysterious and both enchanting to the author. Using abstract forms, inspiration from printmaking and folk art the film expresses the emotional and visual impact of a beautiful but disappearing world.

A JAR OF NUTS

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.

THE FIRST CYPRIOT ASTRONAUT

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.

VASILES MICHAELIDES

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.

GIZEM

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.