Akamas

Omeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in an age of innocence. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian.When he falls in love with a Greek- Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be. Destiny ordains that he fight so that he can stay with his beloved, at a moment when the people around him are moving in exactly the opposite direction: towards separation and partition. If he doesn’t want to be defeated, hemust fight the absurdity of fanaticismthat is invading his personal life and trying to crush it.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Panicos Chrysanthou

Cinematography: Andras Gero

Editing: Thomas Kallis

Sound: Yorgos Potagas

Music: Michalis Christodoulides

Actors: Christopher Grego (Omeris), Agni Tsangaridou (Rhodou), Michalis Terlikkas (poet-fisherman), Thodoris Michailides (Naim), Alkis Kritikos (Nikolis), Koullis Nicolaou (Kayas)

Production: Artimages Ltd

Producers: Panicos Chrysanthou

Co-production: Marathon Filmcilik, Creator 4, Hellenic Broadacasting Corporation ERT SA

Co-producers: Andras Gero, Dervis Zaim

Costumes: Michalis Kofteros, Varvara Papayoti, Militsa Andreou

Sets: Christos Lanitis

Make Up: Eta Csabavolgyi

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Cyprus-Turkey-Hungary-Greece

Production Year: 2006

Duration: 120

Contact: Artimages LtdΚύπρος/CyprusΠανίκκος Χρυσάνθου/Panicos ChrysanthouΤ. +357 26322138 F. +357 26322317artimages@cytanet.com.cy

Panicos Chrysanthou

Panicos Chrysanthou was born in Kythrea, Cyprus in 1951. He studied at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. He worked in Cyprus as a film critic, curator of the Nicosia Film Club and the Cyprus Film Archive, and as a director of the art cinema Studio in Nicosia. In 1987 he had the chance to make his first film.