Francophone Film Festival of Greece in Cyprus

The Francophone Film Festival of Greece in Cyprus, an event organized by the French Institute of Greece and the French Institute of Cyprus, in partnership with the Association Friends of Cinema.

Cine Studio (University of Nicosia) - 9:00pm - Entrance free. The Friends of Cinema Society is a cinema club. According to the terms and conditions for its operation and screening of films, NO admission is allowed to anyone under the age of 18.

Please click on the picture of each film to watch the trailer Trailer 60

 

Chacun pour tousChacun pour tous

Monday 8 April 2019

Director: Vianney Lebasque (France, 2017, 93’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles) 

Actors: Ahmed Sylla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Olivier Barthélémy

Synopsis: In order to participate with medal options in the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games, the national coach of France decides to form a basketball team composed mostly of fake mentally retarded. Once in Australia, the fraudsters must fake their disability by living with the other athletes in the Olympic village or by attending the media in the post-match press conference.

 


Ma filleMa fille

Wednesday 10 April 2019

Director: Naidra Ayadi (France, 2018, 80’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles) 

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Natacha Krief, Darina Al Joundi

Synopsis: Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest who left to study hairdressing in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from her older sister. She will not be able to come to join them for the holidays, pretexting once more an overload of work - Latifa attacks Hakim and pushes him to fetch Leïla. Nedjma will come with him, they will take the opportunity to discover Paris. Upon their arrival in the hair salon, they learn that Leila has actually never worked. It is the journey of a father who begins in Paris one night until dawn.