FESTIVALS: Cyprus Film Days Announces Call for Entries for its International Competition
NICOSIA: Cyprus Film Days will present a separate international competition section, Glocal Images, for the 5th consecutive year. The deadline for applications is 13 February 2015. The 13th edition of…
PRODUCTION: Cypriot Sunrise in Kimmeria in Preproduction
NICOSIA: Sunrise in Kimmeria (Κιμμέρια), the debut feature of Simon Farmakas, will start shooting on 16 March 2015, with plans for a hybrid distribution strategy incorporating traditional cinema, DVD and…
FESTIVALS: Winners of the 8th Cyprus International Short Film Festival
LIMASSOL: Lullaby of the Butterfly, a film about a mysterious crime directed by Tonia Mishiali, won the 1st Prize in the National Competition of the 8th Cyprus International Short Film…
FESTIVALS: Cyprus International Short Film Festival Lineup
LIMASSOL: Eight national and 64 international short films will be screened in the 4th edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (11-17 October).
Cyprus in Cannes 2014
Cyprus will be located in the South-East European Pavilion in Cannes.
PRODUCTION: Bourek in Preparation
NICOSIA: The Serbian director Vladan Nikolic is in preparation with a new feature he will shoot mainly in Greece (20 days), and with some additional shooting also in New York…
FESTIVALS: Stratos Wins Best Film at Cyprus Film Days
NICOSIA: The 12th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival held in Limassol and Nicosia 4-13 April ended with Cyprus-born film director Yiannis Economides winning the Best Film award for Stratos.
Cyprus Film Days 2014 opens on Friday, April 4th
The 12th edition of the International Film Festival Cyprus Film Days opens simultaneously in Limassol and in Nicosia on Friday, April 4th, 2014. The Festival is co-organised by the Cultural…
FNE TV: Cypriot director Yannis Economides
FNE spoke to Cypriot director Yannis Economides about being a filmmaker in one of the EU’s smallest countries and his new film Stratos that was in competition in Berlinale 2014
Cyprus Surfaces at Berlinale
Cypriot born director Yannis Economides’s Greek/German/Cyprus coproduction To Mikro Psari screens in the main competition at the 64th Berlinale.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Cyprus
Although Cyprus has a population of 1.13m and is only slightly smaller than Estonia and nearly triple the population of its Mediterranean neighbour Malta, the country is still developing as…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: The Man with the Answers
COTTBUS: The Man with the Answers, a Cypriot/Greek roadmovie that travels from Italy through Austria to Germany, was seeking production partners from those countries at the Connecting Cottbus pitching forum,…
PRODUCTION: Cyprus Romantic Comedy Committed in Postproduction
NICOSIA: The English-language low-budget romantic comedy Committed written and directed by Stelana Kliris is expected to be completed by the end of December 2013.
PRODUCTION: Forgotten Brides Going into Production
NICOSIA: Writer/director Yeliz Shukri is investigating the fate of thousands of Turkish-Cypriot girls sold into marriage between 1920 and 1940 through the story of one of them.
PRODUCTION: Land of Golden Apple in Development
NICOSIA: Petros Charalambous is developing an adaptation of Eve Makis's novel Land of Golden Apple (first published in the UK) with Eve Makis writing the script and Marios Piperides producing…
PRODUCTION: Five Shilling Nylon in Postproduction in Cyprus
NICOSIA: Award winning writer/director Christos Siopachas is in postproduction with Five Shilling Nylon, a love story set in 1950 about a miller whose life is turned upside down by the…
PRODUCTION: Kypris - The Great Goddess of Cyprus in Postproduction
NICOSIA: Stavros Papageorghiou is in postproduction with Kypris - The Great Goddess of Cyprus, a 60 minute documentary offering an exploration of the worship of the goddess Aphrodite from an…
PRODUCTION: Committed in Preproduction in Cyprus
NICOSIA: Writer/director Stelana Kliris will begin shooting Committed a small budget romantic comedy and road movie on 24 May 2013.
FNE at Cyprus Films Days 2013: Winners Cyprus Film Days
NICOSIA: Night of Silence by Reis Çelik (Turkey) won the Best Film Award and a prize of 6,000 EUR at the 11th annual international film festival Cyprus Film Days which…
IFF Cyprus Announces Deadline
The 11th IFF Cyprus Film Days is accepting submissions for the international competition Glocal Images through 8 February 2013.
