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Festival goes on a journey through time and space

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With a series of outdoor screenings, lectures, workshops for children, archaeological presentations and photographic exhibitions, the 4th Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic & Historical Film Festival will be a five-day celebration of culture. Taking place between July 7 and 11 at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, the festival is again a hybrid version this year as in addition to its physical events the documentaries involved will also be screened online.

Remarkable Cypriot and international documentaries of archaeological, ethnographic and historical interest will be screened, as well as short documentary productions concerning history, archaeology, and the cultural heritage of Cyprus. At the same time, interesting tributes, discussions and educational activities about archaeology, history and cinema will be held.

Besides the documentary screenings, two photography exhibitions will take place. The Abandonment exhibition explores the many different faces and forms of the term, whether it is people abandoning places, buildings, individuals or objects. Abandonment becomes even more severe when a neurological or mental condition is involved, such as Huntington’s Disease. As such, the photographic exhibition is organised by the Huntington’s Disease Association of Cyprus in collaboration with the Larnaca Photographic Society, the international network Unlocking Sacred Landscapes (UnSaLa), the Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic & Historical Film Festival and research projects.

The second exhibition’s theme is Surveying Memories and presents pieces by Adamos Papantoniou in collaboration with the research programme Unlocking the Sacred Landscapes of Cyprus co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation. Adamos captures the experience of archaeologists in the landscape, but also how antique monuments and those of the recent past demarcate collective memories today. The exhibition accompanies the documentary Settled and Sacred Landscapes in Cyprus: The Xeros River Valley produced by Tetraktys Films.

Several workshops will also take place during the festival including one for children from 6 to 12 that will acquaint children with the science of archaeology. A packed screening programme and parallel events are scheduled for this year’s edition inviting the public to embark on a “human journey through time and space”.

 

4th Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Festival

Outdoor screenings and several parallel events of archaeological, ethnographic and historical interest. July 7-11. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia. www.aei-filmfestival.org

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