Short Films

THE MAN WITH THE ANSWERS

Director: Stelios Kammitsis
Duration: 80'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: films@m-appeal.com
Production Company: Felony Film Productions Ltd
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece, Italy
Completion Year: 2021

A Greek former diving champion and an eccentric German backpacker take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria. THE MAN WITH THE ANSWERS is a picture-postcard travelogue about the familial ties that bind, the boys that catch our eye, and the twists and turns that lead us home.

PAINT ME A LIE

Director: Antony Petrou
Duration: 14'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: tonia@barklikeacat.com
Production Company: Bark Like A Cat Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, UK, Sardinia
Completion Year: 2022

When a teenager falls victim of a brutal attack. No good deed may temper the harm caused by hate and prejudice…

MY NAME IS LILY

Director: Yianna Americanou
Genre: Fiction
Contact: stelanak@gmail.com
Production Company: Meraki Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2023

Lily, an intersex woman, has to face her traumatic past to prevent history from repeating itself, when her intersex niece is forced into corrective surgery.

EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY

Director: Kyros Papavassiliou
Duration: 110'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: marios@filmworks.com.cy
Production Company: A.M.P. Filmworks
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece
Completion Year: 2022

In a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple’s relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.

WORTHY

Director: Christos Georgiou
Duration: 90'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: Christos Georgiou, Lychnari Productions
Production Company: Lychnari Productions
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus, Greece
Completion Year: 2023

The discovery of an icon, which seems to be crying, launches Elias’ remarkable journey from cemetery caretaker to holy man. While he is on his quest we also follow four other stories of people who have things they want to wish for. Some may seem more important than others but they are all just as human.

TO THE MOON AND BACK

Director: Stelana Kliris
Duration: 12'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: stelanak@gmail.com
Production Company: Meraki Films
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2018

A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.

THE PARROT LADY

Director: Michalis Kalopedis
Duration: 6,45'
Genre: Animation
Contact: michael@zedemmedia.com
Production Company: Zedem Media
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2020

Inspired by a true story, ‘The Parrot Lady’ is an artistic contemplation on a woman’s life who chose to live on the streets with her parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home.

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Director: Constantinos Patsalides
Duration: 15'
Genre: Fiction
Contact: g.avraam@documentaryworld.com.cy
Production Company: Walking Around The World productions
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus
Completion Year: 2018

Cyprus, 1974. Maria is trying to find a trace of her son who is in the frontline of the Turkish invasion.

TSIKITIGKLON, THE FAIRY AND THE MAN

Director: Marios Mettis
Genre: Fiction
Production Company: EFX Productions ltd
Co-Prod. Country(ies): Cyprus

A trans woman finds herself trapped inside the van of a mysterious man whose intentions are not what they seem to be.

Tsikitigklon, The Fairy and The Man, is a story about the true self we hide, and that the only way to remove the mask we all insist on wearing is through love… and a little magic.