Code Name Venus (2012)

La tragedia hace acto de presencia en la vida del prestigioso periodista Jack Elgin, un hombre inteligente e idealista, cuando su mujer y una de sus hijas son asesinadas ante sus propios ojos en un atentado terrorista. Horrorizado al comprobar cómo una política pusilánime impide que la justicia condene a los autores del crimen, Elgin se siente obligado a tomarse la justicia por su mano. Moviéndose en las altas esferas de la política y en los círculos de la mafia yugoslava, intentará atrapar a los asesinos.

Three Turkish commandos infiltrate Cyprus in an attempt to stop the EOKA destroying Turkish villages and killing Turks in Greece

Adaptación del drama homónimo de Shakespeare, una obra sobre los celos, esa pasión capaz de corroer el espíritu de los hombres. Es el reflejo del alma humana, tejida de los más puros y viles sentimientos, deseos y pasiones. Othello, un noble capitán moro del ejército veneciano, y Desdémona, hija de Brabancio, un viejo y conservador aristócrata, se ven obligados a defender su amor ante todos. Cuando Othello parte hacia Chipre a luchar contra los turcos, Yago, su sirviente, movido por oscuros deseos, empieza a tejer la trama que desencadenará la tragedia. Yago es cobarde, envidioso e innoble, por eso desea acabar con la felicidad de su amo. Sabe lo frágil que es la frontera que separa el amor del odio en el corazón humano. Al volver de Chipre, a través de las insidiosas palabras de Yago, Othello construye un universo de sospechas a su alrededor. Incapaz de reconocer la verdad, cae preso de los celos.

A romantic drama from a decade past, back when love was more than just a word. A man, a woman and the lie that got in the way.

This first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs. The film consists of a folkloric inventory based on the folk culture of Cyprus, as well as on similar ritual happenings. The narration and dialogue are entirely in the Cypriot dialect and are characterized by a rhetorical and poetic mood.

Directed by Åke Lindman, Shot in Cyprus (1965) is a romantic drama. Onni Lintula (Åke Lindman), a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier, has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach, she falls in love with the local beauty Stalo (Demetra Demetri), whom she sees rising from the sea like the reborn Aphrodite. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother (Andreas Nicolis), Onni and Stalo find each other.

Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the lives of migrants on the island of Cyprus, it passionately weaves themes of displacement and belonging.

Υorgos and Sophia are trying hard to cope with their financial problems and the needs of their two children. The grandfather helps them out with his pension since the family business, a small grocery store, does not provide them with enough income. When the grandfather suddenly dies in his sleep, they decide to keep it a secret for as long as they can, so as to continue collecting the money from his pension. But things become more complicated when officers from the social security department start looking for the grandfather.

The film tells the story of eleven Turkish Cypriot workers who left their homes in a bus in 1964 that never came back. Their remains were found in a well in Cyprus in October 2006.

A man who doesn’t know who he is meets his former love. She tells him he is a famous poet, Kostas Karyotakis, who killed himself in 1928. Every year he returns on the anniversary of his death.

'Haftasonu' tells the story of Hasan, who travels to Cyprus after many years following the death of his father. As he spends a weekend in his childhood village, his sense of belonging and identity will be questioned by all within. Following a festival run in 2016 and 2017, the film is now available for viewing here: https://vimeo.com/161152843

Varosha, the only city on the world without people, the loneliest city... Varosha is a province in Cyprus that is closed with fences and unpopulated since 1974.

The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.

The heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?

An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.

Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.

Summer is a permanent state of mind in Limassol, a once small seaside town in Cyprus now transforming into the oligarch paradise of the Mediterranean. Within its asphyxiating environment, Tina, a depressed food stylist is ready to give up on everything on the day of her birthday, until an extraordinary encounter changes her life.