“Cyprus Film Days” is the country’s most important film event. The 15th session took place from April 27th to May 6th in Limassol and Nicosia. For the first time since the festival’s creation a Cypriot film won first prize.
Adonis Florides’ Rosemarie received the “Glocal Images” Best Film Award in the international competition. The film is about Costas, an established writer who turns to script-writing for a television series. Costas is worried that his inspiration might one day desert him, so, to keep his series’ ratings as high as possible, he decides to watch his neighbours in his new apartment in Limassol, using their daily life to enrich his plot-lines.
According to the Cypriot director, this project has been carefully researched, his aim being to attack the immobility of the island’s often patriarchal society, where family secrets are hidden.
Rosemarie was produced by Marios Piperidis (ΑΜP Filmworks Ltd) in co-production with Andros Achilleos (Seahorse Film), with the support of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.
This same Ministry and its cultural services created the Cyprus Film Days, a festival dedicated exclusively to contemporary cinema from around the world.
To access the full list of Cyprus Film Days 2017, click here.
Sources: Cineuropa, cyprusfilmdays.com
