Films with a difference are on offer this month as the inaugural Golden Island International Film Festival screens at selected Lemar cinemas, the capital’s buffer zone, Le Chateau Lambousa and Eastern Mediterranean University.
Girne American University’s Spectrum Hall hosts the gala premiere of Turkish Cypriot Derviș Zaim’s latest film Balik (Fish) on Thursday to launch the week-long programme from Friday to the following Thursday, November 7-13.
Girne Lemar screenings begin on Friday at 4:15p.m with the Cyprus Cinema Short Fiction Competition, which will be repeated on Sunday, November 9 at 6:30p.m.
The Friday programme continues at 6:30p.m. with 2014 new releases, Secret Sharer, a Joseph Conrad tale of the South China Sea, and the romantic comedy Dead Cat.
Secret Sharer will also see a single screening at Lapta’s Le Chateau Lambousa at 6p.m on Wednesday, November 12.
Saturday offers a 1:30p.m showing of Murid, which follows a Sheikh Nazim disciple from Germany to Lefke, followed by festival shorts, and the films The Empty Home and Little Happiness.
Akamas, the iconic story of a real life 1960s love affair between a Greek and Turkish Cypriot, launches next Sunday’s programme at 1:30p.m, with a 2009 British-Russian love story set in south Leicestershire, Season of Mists, and a 2014 drama set in Croatia, Song of My Mother, to follow.
Season of Mists will also screen at Eastern Mediterranean University on Friday at 11:30a.m with a new film documenting the alliance of football fans and protestors, Istanbul United, at 4:30p.m. Buffer zone screenings next weekend at the Goethe Institute offer the story of Nazi descendants, Hitler’s Children, at 7:30p.m on Friday followed by Wolfskinder, a tale of feral survival by German orphans after their country’s WWII defeat.
Lemar cinemas in Karaoǧlanoǧlu, Gazi Maǧusa and Lefkoșa’s Küçük Kaymakli will screen the film programme with different timings. More details of the second week’s films will be published next week.
Tickets are priced at 10TL and 5TL for students from Lemar cinemas.
