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First Cyprus film summit to host 120 local and international participants Cyprus

First Cyprus film summit to host 120 local and international participants

October 4th, 2018 The first Cyprus film summit bringing together film and audio-visual professionals from all over the world will be held in Nicosia from October 9 until 12. More than 120 local and international participants are expected, including production and director companies as well as executive producers from Europe, India, Russia and North...
Turkey jails filmmaker for movie portraying execution of Erdogan Turkey

Turkey jails filmmaker for movie portraying execution of Erdogan

September 7th, 2018 A Turkish filmmaker was convicted on Friday of membership of a terrorist group for a feature film that portrayed President Tayyip Erdogan having a gun pointed at his head as his family lay dead all around him, the state news agency said. Ali Avci was arrested last year after the release of a trailer for his film "Awakening", based on...
The Dome hotel: a refuge in a time of war Cyprus

The Dome hotel: a refuge in a time of war

July 1st, 2018 By Rally Papageorgiou A new documentary on historic Dome hotel, long a Kyrenia landmark, tells a tale of glamour, war, loss and solidarity. Long famous for its receptions and tea parties, the Dome also became a refuge during times of war and continues to offer traditional hospitality by its present-day Turkish Cypriot employees...
Smuggling Hendrix: the Cyprob via a dog Cyprus

Smuggling Hendrix: the Cyprob via a dog

May 13th, 2018 A Cypriot film about a man who tries to smuggle his lost dog across the buffer zone has just won an award at a major film festival By Andria Kades A working knowledge of the Cyprus problem most certainly helps in understanding the cinematic possibilities of a film featuring two Greek Cypriots, a Turkish Cypriot, a Turkish settler and...
US filmmaker offers roadmap to boost local industry Cyprus

US filmmaker offers roadmap to boost local industry

May 13th, 2018 Greece is luring foreign filmmakers with tax incentives. Cyprus is poised to do the same. Hollywood cinematographer Steven Bernstein explains how it could work By Theo Panayides Steven Bernstein is a man with a plan – or a man with a dream, as they say in the movies. His dream is indeed movie-related, hoping to kick-start local...
Young migrants making it on their own in Cyprus Cyprus

Young migrants making it on their own in Cyprus

February 11th, 2018 By Evie Andreou The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) in Cyprus has launched a short film produced by seven young refugees residing in Cyprus who wanted to share their lives with the wider public. Abdul, Eskandar, Babucar, Fatima, Laeticia, Rosa and Yanick all refugees from the Middle East and...
Film on Armenian genocide to be shown in Cyprus Cyprus

Film on Armenian genocide to be shown in Cyprus

October 14th, 2017 The Promise, a 2016 film set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, is coming to Cyprus, and with it a chance to get to know more about the Armenian genocide carried out by Turkey 100 years ago. The film is about a love triangle which develops between Mikael (Oscar Isaac), an Armenian medical student, Chris (Christian Bale), a...
Cyprus International film festival celebrates women in film Cyprus

Cyprus International film festival celebrates women in film

April 15th, 2017 THE Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF) has launched a new category this year, the Aphrodite Cinematic Award, which will highlight women in film in Cyprus, and submissions are now being accepted. The annual festival, now in its twelfth year, will hold film screenings in Paphos from June 14 - 24 at the University of...
Bonding across the Green Line Cyprus

Bonding across the Green Line

March 26th, 2017 By Agnieszka Rakoczy Panikos Chrysanthou’s film The Story of the Green Line focuses on unlikely bonds formed between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot soldiers Collecting memories of the past has been a life-time passion of film director Panikos Chrysanthou, whose The Story of the Green Line premiered this week at Nicosia’s...
Lack of film industry support moves Cyprus to Malta featured

Lack of film industry support moves Cyprus to Malta

April 13th, 2016 MPs were up in arms on Tuesday when discussion in a House committee revealed a BBC production on Cypriot migration to the UK is to be filmed in Malta instead of the island as it will cost less to do so. During a meeting of the House Education Committee, Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis said this was because the government does not give...
50 shades of dreck? Steamy "Grey" film tops Razzies as Hollywood's worst Entertainment

50 shades of dreck? Steamy "Grey" film tops Razzies as Hollywood's worst

February 28th, 2016 By Chris Michaud The erotic box office hit "Fifty Shades of Grey" led the pack on Saturday for the annual Razzie Awards, "honoring" Hollywood's worst films, while "Rocky" star Sylvester Stallone punched his way to a special Redeemer award for his Oscar-nominated turn in "Creed." "Fifty Shades of Grey," based on the best-selling...
Germans give Hitler actor a warm welcome World

Germans give Hitler actor a warm welcome

October 6th, 2015 By Madeline Chambers A German actor who dressed up as Adolf Hitler and travelled through the country for four weeks chatting to smiling voters and stroking their pets for a film that opens this week says he was shocked by the warm welcome he received. The film "Look Who's Back" is an adaptation of a satirical novel by Timur Vermes...
A Hollywood future? Cyprus

A Hollywood future?

August 24th, 2014 By Constantinos Psillides What do the HBO hit show Game of Thrones, Spielberg’s Munich, Brad Pitt’s World War Z, Russel Crowe’s Gladiator and Tom Hanks’ The Da Vinci Code and Captain Phillips have in common? If you answered “box-office success” you are technically right but that’s not the answer we were looking for. All...
Turkish Cypriot whose great love inspired a movie, dies aged 79 Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot whose great love inspired a movie, dies aged 79

July 27th, 2014 By Agnieszka Rakoczy A LEGENDARY Turkish Cypriot goatherd whose great love inspired a Cyprus-made Romeo and Juliet movie that was screened at the Venice Film Festival has died at the age of 79. Hassan Moustafa, who lived in the Akamas village of Androlikou, passed away on Wednesday in hospital in Polis. It was the story of...
Cypriot TV personalities make a splash on the big screen Cyprus

Cypriot TV personalities make a splash on the big screen

April 27th, 2014 By Evie Andreou IN TIMES of economic depression love and devotion in one’s own art often becomes the driving force behind creative ideas. In order to make their idea a reality three young Cypriot artists, Loris Loizides, director Nicolas Koumides and TV presenter Stavros Kyprianou took a giant leap of faith when they decided to...
Acting with Clooney was fun, says London Cypriot Cyprus

Acting with Clooney was fun, says London Cypriot

February 12th, 2014 WORKING with a stellar cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray could easily have been an intimidating experience for a young actor. But according to London Cypriot Dimitri Leonidas, filming new movie The Monuments Men was simply “a lot of fun” - thanks to Clooney’s ability to put everyone at ease. Leonidas,...
Film – Summer blockbusters Entertainment

Film – Summer blockbusters

June 3rd, 2013 By Preston Wilder The Cannes Film Festival ended last Sunday. The Palme D’Or – i.e. top prize – went to the rapturously received Blue is the Warmest Colour, a three-hour French coming-of-ager with strong lesbian overtones. Cannes is the world’s most prestigious film festival, and other much-discussed films included The...
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