66th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
31 OCTOBER → 9 NOVEMBER 2025
Official International Program: Division and Unity: Cinema in the Middle East
Cyprus-Turkey-Hungary-Greece 2006 120 35mm Color
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.