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…
12-11-2014

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…
21-10-2014

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).
09-10-2014

Cyprus in Cannes 2014

Cyprus will be located in the South-East European Pavilion in Cannes.
13-05-2014

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…
09-05-2014

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.
15-04-2014

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…
04-04-2014

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
13-03-2014

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.
12-02-2014

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…
13-12-2013

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,…
12-11-2013

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.
08-11-2013

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.
06-06-2013

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…
17-05-2013

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…
13-05-2013

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…
09-05-2013

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.
07-05-2013

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…
29-04-2013

IFF Cyprus Announces Deadline

The 11th IFF Cyprus Film Days is accepting submissions for the international competition Glocal Images through 8 February 2013.
09-01-2013

FNE at Cyprus SFFC 2012: Cyprus Short Film Fest Awards: Anna

LIMASSOL: The 2012 International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (www.isffc.com.cy), which concluded on 20 October, bestowed its 1st Prize for Best National Film and an award of 5,000 EUR to…
22-10-2012