Francophonie Film Festival 2022

The French Institute of Cyprus and the Association Friends of Cinema, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus and the Embassy of Switzerland present the 17th Francophonie Film Festival.  02 - 31/03 2022. All films start at 8:30 pm. Venue: Pantheon Cinema (29 Diagoras Street,1097 Nicosia). Free Entrance.

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 the film to watch the trailer  

Senior Citizen

Friday 4 March. Opening of the Film Festival with the Cypriot film Senior Citizen, proposed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the  Republic of Cyprus. A glass of wine will be offered by the Ministry before the screening.

 Director: Marinos Kartikkis (Cyprus, 2020, 84’, o.v. Greek with French subtitles) 

 Actors: Antonis Katsaris, Marina Argyridou, Lenia Sorocou

 Synopsis: Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge every evening in the hospital to spend the night on the benches and chairs of the outpatients’ wing. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually, however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to build.

A film that deals with loneliness, old age and the marginalization, many times, of the elderly people.

Mama Weed (La Daronne)

Tuesday 8 March 2022. 

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé (France, 2020, 104’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Isabelle Huppert,Yann Sundberg, Michaël Louchart

Synopsis: A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.

Olga

11 March 2022. Ce film est présenté par l'Ambassade de Suisse. 

Director: Elie Grappe (Switzerland, 2021, 85’, o.v. French, Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles) 

Actors: Anastasiia Budiashkina,Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio

Synopsis: 2013: exiled in Switzerland, 15 year old Olga, a talented Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to make her place at the National Sports Centre. Like all top athletes, she dreams of Olympic gold. She tries her best to fit into her new national team but, as the European Championship approaches, the revolution in Kiev shakes her world and tests her will.

Elie Grappe’s feature-length debut was Switzerland’s entry for the 2022 Oscars Best International Feature Film category and is nominated for the Swiss film awards 2022.

Bye Bye Morons (Adieu Les Cons)

Monday 14 March 2022. 

Director: Albert Dupontel (France, 2020, 87’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié

Synopsis: A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.

Gagarine

Thursday 17 March 2022. 

Directors: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh  (France, 2020, 98’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven

Synopsis: Yuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.

Non-Fiction (Double vies)

Tuesday 22 March 2022. 

Director: Olivier Assayas (France, 2018, 108’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne

Synopsis: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.

Mothers'Instinct (Duelles)

Monday 28 March 2022. 

Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse (France / Belgium, 2018, 97’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Veerle Baetens, Anne Coesens, Mehdi Nebbou

Synopsis: When a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear.

Who you think I am (Celle que Vous Croyez)

Wednesday 30 March 2022. 

Director: Safy Nebbou (France, 2019, 101’, o.v. French with Greek sutitles) 

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil

Synopsis: Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young blonde and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?

Screening in Limassol 

Olga

Wednesday 9 March 2022. Rialto Theater (Andrea Drousioti 19, Limassol 3040).This film is proposed by the Embassy of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Alliance française of Limassol. Εntrance free.

Director: Elie Grappe (Switzerland, 2021, 85’, o.v. French, Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles) 

Actors: Anastasiia Budiashkina,Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio

Synopsis: 2013: exiled in Switzerland, 15 year old Olga, a talented Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to make her place at the National Sports Centre. Like all top athletes, she dreams of Olympic gold. She tries her best to fit into her new national team but, as the European Championship approaches, the revolution in Kiev shakes her world and tests her will.

Elie Grappe’s feature-length debut was Switzerland’s entry for the 2022 Oscars Best International Feature Film category and is nominated for the Swiss film awards 2022.

Bye Bye Morons (Adieu Les Cons)

Monday 14 March 2022 - 8:15 pm - Rio Cinema (125 Ellados Str., Limassol). This film is proposed by the Alliance française of Limassol, in collaboration with the Cine Club of Limassol.

Director: Albert Dupontel (France, 2020, 87’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Marié

Synopsis: A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.

Non-Fiction (Double vies)

Monday 21 March 2022 - 8:15 pm -  Rio Cinema (125 Ellados Str., Limassol). This film is proposed by the Alliance française of Limassol, in collaboration with the Cine Club of Limassol.

Director: Olivier Assayas (France, 2018, 108’, o.v. French with Greek subtitles)  

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne

Synopsis: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.

Senior Citizen

Monday 28 March - 8:15 pm - Rio Cinema (125 Ellados Str., Limassol). This film is proposed by the Alliance française of Limassol, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the  Republic of Cyprus and the Cine Club of Limassol. Free Entrance. 

Director: Marinos Kartikkis (Cyprus, 2020, 84’, o.v. Greek with French subtitles) 

Actors: Antonis Katsaris, Marina Argyridou, Lenia Sorocou

Synopsis: Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge every evening in the hospital to spend the night on the benches and chairs of the outpatients’ wing. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually, however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to build.

A film that deals with loneliness, old age and the marginalization, many times, of the elderly people.