Cyprus

AFRICA STAR follows three generations of Cypriot women - mother,
daughter, and granddaughter - whose lives were tragically altered by one man’s
submission to temptation. Plagued by guilt over his act in 1945 and his failure to make amends in 1967 the now ailing octogenarian makes one last...

Cyprus/Turkey/Hungary/Greece

Omeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Gre...

Cyprus, France

Fiction, 20 min

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 th...

Cyprus, UK

Fiction, 16 min

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

Written & Directed by: Savvas Stavrou
Produced by: Sophie Reynolds, Thomas Hawkins & Peter Stephanou
Cinematography: Anna MacDonald
Editing: Mdhamiri ...

Cyprus, Greece

Fiction, 18 min

Daphne switches from one sexual partner to the next, but does not seem to be satisfied, at least not with what she thought she needed - until she finds a wounded dog in the street. How far would she go to feel some affection?

Written, Directed & Produced by: Toni...

Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood yet very much a child, has romanticised his absent father to mythic proportions. When his father is finally
released from prison, Dimitris’ dreams of family happiness are more lucid than ever, yet immediately transformed.
In the need to make all his fantasi...

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.

Written & Directed by: Kyros Papavasilliou
Produced by: Marios Piperides, Janine Teerling, Konstantina Staurianou & Rena...

Cyprus
Fiction, 16min

A fragmented biography through the gaze of geography and memory. Following a group of girls’ journey from Limassol to Ayia Napa, this short film tracks the motions of an average night out, while simultaneously navigating the more obscure undercurrents of the landscapes and ...

Cyprus

Fiction, 14 min

Costas, the owner of a funeral home, is asked to keep an unidentified corpse on his premises until the authorities establish the identity. As the identification process takes longer than expected, Costas decides to search for the decedent’s identity himself.

Written & D...

Cyprus/Greece

Fiction

Elpida has reached a critical juncture in her life – unquenchable desires, the longing for love, her own body, even time itself all seem to conspire against the routine existence she had been enduring as wife and mother. As her tenuous hold on reality begins to crumble, El...

PEMBE AY

UK

Documentary, 14 min

During the Pink Moon season, a daughter revisits her childhood home from Scotland to work through the garden with her father as it blossoms in the politically and physically divided island of Cyprus. It once facilitated her nightmares of the conflict and now the...

Greece, Cyprus

Fiction, 27 min
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In the heart of Athens, ten-year-old Persephone is struggling to survive while trying to finish a school project. Despite her best efforts, things spiral out of control, and she finds herself slipping into chaos.
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Written & Directed by: Christos Artemiou
Produce...

Cyprus

Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge every evening in the hospital to spend the night on the benches and chairs of the outpatients’ wing. 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,...

I SFAGI TOU KOKORA

Cyprus

Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.

Directed by: Andreas Pantzis
Written...

Cyprus

Fiction

Smaragda, a middle-aged single woman, moves into her late mother's house in Ayia Napa, a tourist town in Cyprus, while she takes on the care of Bella, her mother's guide dog. With environmental sensitivities, ineffectual relationships, single and professionally stagnant, she cont...

Cyprus/Germany/Greece

Yiannis, a fading musician, is planning to leave crisis ridden Cyprus for a better
life abroad His plans are put on hold when his dog Jimi runs away and crosses the UN buffer zone that divides the "Greek" from the "Turkish" side of the island. Since animal exchange between...

Cyprus

Fiction, 22 min

After discovering his son’s secret, a traditional father takes him on a fateful hunting trip.

Written & Directed by: Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
Produced by: Marios Petrondas
Cinematography: Stephan Metzner
Editing: Mustafa Köroğlu & Kamil Saldun
Music: Inal Bilsel
Soun...

Cyprus/Greece/Italy

A former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria.

Written & Direted by: Stelios Kammitsis
Produced by: Fenia Cossovitsa, Luca Legnani & Vicky Miha
Cinematography: Thodoros Mihopoulos
Editing: Liv...

UK

Animation, 8 min

Anna lives in a perfect house, but living on the edge of a tornado can be difficult. When she ventures outside, she is forced to face the chaos that she usually hides away from.

Directed by: Maria Tomazou
Written by: Marius Scholtz
Produced by: Solomon Golding
Animation: M...

Cyprus

Fiction, 15 min

A trans woman finds herself trapped inside the van of a mysterious man whose intentions are not what they seem to be. A story about the true self we hide, and that the only way to remove the mask we all insist on wearing is through love and some magic.

Written & Directed...

Cypriot actor/producer Simon Kassianides introduces us to this month's _UNDERSCORE edition "A Dynamic Momentum. The Evolution of Cypriot Film".