French films at the Cultural Workshop Agion Omologiton

The Cultural Workshop Ayion Omologiton will project, in collaboration with the French Institute of Cyprus, three French films in original version with English subtitles.

Outdoor projections. Seating is limited to 20 attendees. Please book with Doros Demetriou : 99 43 57 54.

Archontiko Ierodiakonou Aghialou and Ayioi Omoloyites Corner, Nicosia 1080 - 20:00 - Entrance free. Suitable for persons over 18 years old.

Please click on the picture of the film to watch the trailer 

A presentation of the film will be made before each screening by the filmmaker Marios Philippou who will also lead the discussions at the end of the screenings.

Marios Filippou is an experimental video artist with an academic background in both theoretical and practical filmmaking. He studied cinema theory at the De Montfort University in Leicester and went on to do his master’s degree in directing at the MET film school in London.

A Summer's Tale (Conte d'été)

Date: Wednesday 16 September

Director: Eric Rohmer (France, 1996, 113')

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon

Synopsis: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

Le Havre

Date: Wednesday 23 September

Director: Aki Kaurismäki (France, 2011, 93’) 

Actors: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Synopsis: In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx , a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

Victoria

Date: Wednesday 30 September

Director: Justine Triet (France, 2016, 96')

Actors: Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Victoria is a thirty-something lawyer who's looking for stability and true love in her life struggling with her past. Her search is not evident but finally, she realizes the fact that love should not be always searched.