CYPRUS: Country Report 2016

Due to the financial crisis that hit Cyprus in 2013, the Ministry of Education and Culture was forced to stop funding the film industry. For the first time since then,…
23-02-2017

FESTVALS: Cyprus Short Film Fest Call for Entries

LIMASSOL: The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus is accepting films for the festival, which will take place 14 – 21 October 2017.
17-02-2017

Digital Project Premiered in Cyprus

NICOSIA: Life Routes: Cyprus, a research project by five young people from Cyprus exploring spaces of everyday life, division and co-existence in their country, premiered in Nicosia on 12 December…
13-12-2016

Cypriot Doc Premieres in Nicosia

NICOSIA: The Cyprus documentary film The Incredible Story of ArachnobeeA had its national premiere in Nicosia last week.
30-11-2016

Boy on the Bridge Set for World Premiere

NICOSIA: Petros Charalambous’s debut feature Boy on the Bridge is set to have its world premiere in the official competition of the Festa del Cinema di Roma - Alice in…
20-10-2016

FESTIVALS: International Short Film Festival of Cyprus Announces Lineup

LIMASSOL: The 6th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus will take place in Limassol from 15 to 21 October 2016. The festival will screen dozens of short films in the…
28-09-2016

FESTIVALS: The Open Wins the 11th Cyprus International Film Festival

PAPHOS: Marc Lahore’s debut feature The Open won the 11th Cyprus International Film Festival, which came to a close on 25 September 2016 after 13 days of international feature, short,…
27-09-2016

FESTIVALS: Cyprus International Film Festival Announces Lineup

PAPHOS: The 11th Cyprus International Film Festival will take place in Paphos from 14 to 25 September 2016. The programme of the festival includes 100 feature, short, animated and documentary…
13-09-2016

FESTIVALS: Erlkoning Wins Countryside Animafest Cyprus

PAPHOS: The Swiss film Erlkoning by Georges Schwizgebel was awarded the International Grand Prix at the 15th Countryside Animafest Cyprus, while I, the Eye by Eleni Chandriotou won in the…
26-07-2016

FESTIVALS: Animated Films to Sparkle at the 15th Countryside Animafest Cyprus

PAPHOS: The 15th edition of the Countryside Animafest Cyprus, the official Cyprus animation festival, will screen 68 films in Paphos from 21 to 23 July 2016.
19-07-2016

Mobile Cinema Planned to Travel Across Cyprus

NICOSIA: Producer Stavros Papageorghiou and director Yeliz Shukri, who worked together on the documentary Missing Fetine (Tetraktys Films Ltd), plan to start a mobile cinema and have it travel across…
13-07-2016

FNE at Paphos International Film Festival 2016: Two Cyprus Films Share Award

NICOSIA: Why Talk Feminism? and The Olive Tree at the Border shared the prize for best short film in the national competition of the Paphos International Film Festival. The awards,…
29-06-2016

FNE at Paphos IFF: Paphos Fest Set to Open in Cyprus

NICOSIA: The Paphos International Film Festival (PIFF), which opens on 24 June 2016, will screen 26 international short films, 11 national short films, 13 student short films and eight special…
22-06-2016

Cyprus Joins European Film Promotion

NICOSIA: The Republic of Cyprus has become the 37th member country to join European Film Promotion (EFP) following the decision by the General Assembly of EFP members at the Cannes…
13-06-2016

FNE at Cannes 2016: Cypriot Cinema in Cannes

South-East European Pavillion - Village International Riviera N.134
15-05-2016

FESTIVALS: Russia Takes Top Prize at Cyprus Film Days

NICOSIA: The Gulls by Russian director Ella Manzheeva won the grand prize of the Glocal Images Best Film Award at the The 14th Cyrus Film Days International Festival held in…
26-04-2016

Documentary The Cypriot Fiddler to Premiere in April

NICOSIA: Nicoletta Demetriou's documentary The Cypriot Fiddler will have its premiere in Nicosia on 7 April 2016.
07-04-2016

First Cypriot Documentary to Screen in Commercial Theatres

NICOSIA: Constantinos Patsalides‘s documentary Beloved Days will be the first domestic documentary to screen in the commercial cinemas of Cyprus starting on 7 April 2016.
06-04-2016

The 14th Edition of Cyprus Film Days Ready to Start

NICOSIA: Ten films will compete in the Glocal Images competition of the 14th Cyprus Film Days International Festival, which will run from 15 to 24 April 2016.
04-04-2016

Missing Fetine Picked-up by TV Channels

NICOSIA: The 60-minutes social/human rights documentary Missing Fetine by Yeliz Shukri has been pre-bought by the Hellenic Parliament TV and Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation from the film’s distribution and sales handler,…
23-03-2016