PRODUCTION: Cypriot Debut Feature Pause Moves to Postproduction
NICOSIA: Cypriot director Tonia Mishiali is currently in postproduction with her debut feature Pause aka Menopause. This Cypriot/Greek coproduction is expected to be completed by early 2018.
GRANTS: Cyprus Announces Grants
NICOSIA: Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture announced the winners of the official funding programme for 2016-2017. The Ministry allotted 85,500 EUR as script development grants for low budget feature…
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,…
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.
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…
Cypriot Doc Premieres in Nicosia
NICOSIA: The Cyprus documentary film The Incredible Story of ArachnobeeA had its national premiere in Nicosia last week.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
FNE at Cannes 2016: Cypriot Cinema in Cannes
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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…
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.
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.