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Cypriot directors are fighting and resisting. In a
country where the artist battles alone – yes, alone
– Cypriot directors continue to create and produce,
both here in our country as well as abroad.
This year, the Cyprus Film and Television Direc-
tors Association is organising the 4
th
Cypriot Film
Directors Festival under our summer sky, in our
forgotten open air cinema, like the old days...This
year, we are presenting our long and short films, as
well as documentaries, by incredible young direc-
tors, but also older ones.
This year, it is with great pleasure and emotion that
the Association honours CyBC Director Andreas
Constantinides for his contribution to the art of di-
recting. First of all, we thank the Ministry of Edu-
cation and Culture for co-organising the festival
since the year it was founded and for its financial
and other precious help, without which we would
neither have films produced, nor the festival, nor
seminars and workshops theAssociation organises
every year. We also thank the CyBC, which helps
project the Festival. We hope this is the beginning
of even more substantive support from the CyBC
for Cypriot film making.”
Programme
Paschalis Papapetrou
was born in Nicosia
in 1955. He studied
cinema and television
directing in Germany.
From 1991 until 2002,
he worked at the TV
station “O LOGOS”,
then at “Mega”. He has
directed over 35 documentaries and has collabo-
rated with the Cultural Services of the Ministry of
Education and Culture, with Greek TV, with the
Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation, with the Cy-
prus Tourism Organisation (CTO) and others. He
has run his own production company, Anadysis
Films Ltd, since 2003.
Papapetrou’s films include:
Costas Argyrou
(1997),
Tilemachos Kanthos
(1999),
The Roots
Souvlakia – Sheftalia (2002)