Cinema of Cyprus

Cinema of Cyprus
Movie XD 6D cinema in Nicosia
No. of screens	30 (2011)[1]
• Per capita	2.9 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributors	Four Stars Films 40.7% Odeon Cyprus 23.3% Feelgood 18.9%[2]
Produced feature films (2011)[3]
Fictional	2
Animated	-
Documentary	1
Number of admissions (2011)[5]
Total	870,000
• Per capita	1 (2012)[4]
Gross box office (2011)[5]
Total	€7.11 million

Cypriot cinema refers to the cinema of Cyprus, which was born much later than the cinema of most other countries.

Notable productions[]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, George Filis produced and directed Gregoris Afxentiou, Etsi Prodothike i Kypros, and The Mega Document. In 1994, Cypriot film production received a boost with the establishment of the Cinema Advisory Committee. In 2000, the annual amount set aside for filmmaking in the national budget was CYP£500,000 (about €850,000). In addition to government grants, Cypriot co-productions are eligible for funding from the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund, which finances European film co-productions. To date, four feature films on which a Cypriot was an executive producer have received funding from Eurimages. The first was I Sphagi tou Kokora (1996), followed by Hellados (unreleased), To Tama (1999), and O Dromos gia tin Ithaki (2000).^[6]

In 2018, received critical reviews at Sarajevo Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival, with .^[7][8][9] Also well-received in that year was Pause, by debut director Tonia Mishiali.^[10] The most renowned Cypriot director to date is Michael Cacoyannis with the renowned Zorba the Greek.

See also[]

• Cinema of the world
• World cinema
• Cyprus International Film Festival
• Culture of Cyprus
• Culture of Greece
• Culture of Turkey
• List of Greek actors
• List of Turkish actors
• Film
• Cinema of Greece
• Cinema of Turkey
• List of Cypriot films
• History of Cyprus
• Peter Polycarpou
• Derviş Zaim
• Michael Cacoyannis
• Nicolas Economou

References[]

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