SHORT FILMS
Over the years, short films have had a constant rise in production in Cyprus. While shorter in length, these films provide audiences with material that has depth, context and insight on the themes they explore.
Airport for Sale
2007, Drama, 18 mins
Six children enter the abandoned International Airport of Nicosia. They come from both sides of the island. Inside the Airport terminal building, they find an old clock and decide to have it fixed.
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- Production Studio: Fotocine Studios
- Director: Simon Farmakas
Hope
2011, Drama, 5 mins
A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.
Details
- Production Studio: AMP Filmworks
- Director: Stelana Kliris
Dead End
2013, Drama, 15 mins
An elderly couple becomes overwhelmed with loneliness.
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- Director: Tonia Mishiali
- Producer: Tonia Mishiali
Gomşu (Neighbor)
2013, Drama/ History, 5 mins
Gomsu (Neighbor) is a short film about what often happens after wars where many people do not see their neighbors ever again: Some have not realized it and some do not want to accept it.
Details
- Director: Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
- Producer: Lupa Pictures
Lullaby of the Butterfly
2014, Drama/ Mystery, 20 mins
Following a mysterious phone call, a woman grabs a kitchen knife and sets out on a journey to an unknown destination, leaving ‘her life’ behind.
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- Director: Tonia Mishiali
- Producer: Tonia Mishiali
Kibris’a Mektuplar (Letters to Cyprus)
2014, Drama, 22 mins
In Cyprus, nothing is more anticipated than peace… ‘Letters to Cyprus’ is a prophecy of that anticipation.
Details
- Director: Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
- Producer: Lupa Pictures
Semele
2015, Drama, 14 mins
A school note is just the excuse for Semele to visit her long absent father.
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- Director: Myrsini Aristidou
Agrinoui
2015, Animation, 20 mins
A young mare visits Cyprus to take part in the races. Frustrated with her lack of success, she abandons the racetrack.
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- Director: Alexis Chaviaras
- Producer: Christiana Vasiliou
Olağan Denemeler (Random Attempts)
2016, Mystery / Crime, 8 mins
A question as old as the history of humankind: What does one live for? Do we have the right to be unhappy about life after fulfilling the roles society has assigned us? According to the film’s character Ayla, having no problem in her life does not mean everything is going well. Her monotonous life itself is a sufficient reason for committing suicide. Ayla who decides to take her own life somehow cannot succeed. Nevertheless she does not stop trying to kill herself.
Details
- Director: Vasvi Çiftçioğlu, Doğuş Özokutan
- Producer: Doğuş Özokutan
Bekleyiş (Awaiting)
2016, Drama, 15 mins
A short film that explores the effects of conflict and war on a Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot child.
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- Director: Ömer Yetkinel
- Producer: Ömer Yetkinel
Bad Habits
2016, Mystery / Crime, 15 mins
A library cataloguer forms a new habit, but whether it will turn out to be a good habit or not remains to be seen.
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- Director: Emilios Avraam
- Producer: Emilios Avraam
Tango on the Balcony
2016, Drama, 20 mins
Johnny, an Iraq war veteran who wrestles with post traumatic stress and the transition to civilian life, is tormented by an incessant hyper vigilance and insomnia and the lingering questions of his past actions in combat.
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- Director: Minos Papas
- Producer: Minos Papas, Liz Sargent, Michael Day
Haftasonu (Weekend)
2016, Drama, 23 mins
Following his father’s death, Hasan returns to Cyprus after many years. As he spends time in his childhood village with his grieving mother and childhood girlfriend, the inner struggle with his identity and the challenge of being in a traditionalist community resurfaces. The pressure to attend the funeral pushes Hasan to confront his past and to search for reconciliation, not only with his family and home but also with himself.
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- Director: Talat Gökdemir
- Producer: Talat Gökdemir, Ömer Yetkinel
Sedirin Gölgesinde (In the Shadow of Cedar)
2017, Drama, 9 mins
The story of the migration of Turkish Cypriots, concerns the drama of a family who had to migrate from the southern to the northern part of Cyprus after the 1974 war, the abandonment of the land where the younger generation grew up due to the embargoes applied.
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- Director: Müge Günay
- Producer: Şafak Yolcu
To the Moon and Back
2018, Romance, 12 mins
A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.
Details
- Director:Stelana Kliris
Tozpembe: Yol (Pink Powder: Road)
2018, Experimental, Documentary, 5 mins
This mini documentary looks at the issues of the roads in the northern part of Cyprus faced especially by non-locals who came to the island for education or work.
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- Director: Rahme Veziroğlu
The Way Things Go
2019, Drama, 21 mins
A 25-year-old girl struggling with depression builds a machine hoping to change her life.
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- Director: Sofia Anastasiou
Kismet
2019, Drama, 4 mins
When society gets to decide everything about your life and death, what’s left for you?
Details
- Director: Vasvi Çiftçioğlu, Doğuş Özokutan
Av: The Hunt
2020, Drama, 21 mins
A traditional Cypriot father notices his son’s homosexuality and takes him on a hunting trip.
Details
- Director: Sholeh Zahraei, Kamil Saldun
- Producer: Out of Focus Films – Marios Petrondas, Lupa Pictures – Sholeh Zahraei – Kamil Saldun
