Elli Kiriakidou

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

The loss of youth, social and professional activity intensifies the sense of loneliness, the obsessions and the "dead end" in the life of an elderly couple.

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

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?

Against prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?

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.

1987 Video

Short 2006

Based on a feud that began without any significant cause between the Karakamilos and Pattalossavves families in 1754 and continues to this day, the contemporary reality of Cyprus will be presented through exaggerated comedy. We will see everyday people, our neighbors, but also people who are twice our size, who live in our homes and whom we do not pay much attention to. They are foreigners, "outsiders." They are people who chose Cyprus, to work for a better future. How do we treat them? How do Cypriots today view foreign workers? Amidst all this, a great love and two deaths reignite the feud, which no one knows how or when it will end.

The story presents the adventures of a group of Cypriot students who are in Athens and the corresponding moments that their families spend in Cyprus. This apartment building is mainly inhabited by Cypriots, who for some reason, whether by their will or against it, stay in Athens. They all have strong ties and relationships with Cyprus and retain all the elements, positive and negative, of Cypriots. They try to survive in the madness of Athens, without losing their identity and face life and situations in their own way. The protagonists are everyday, ordinary and recognizable characters and their problems, concepts, joys and sorrows are known and common to all of us.