Next Sunday 17 September at 6pm, the Ambassador of Cyprus, Helena Mina, and the Cultural Officer for Film Affairs of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the European country, Marios Psaras, will open the Contemporary Cypriot Film Festival at the centro cultural MataderoMadrid.
Three short films and one feature film will be screened. After the screenings, the director of the film Pausa, Tonia Mishiali, will have a talk with the audience and answer their questions.
The short films to be screened are the documentary I don’t like the wind, I like the sun, directed by Tonia Mishiali; Sunday, by Dinos Gregoriou (original version in Greek), and the drama A summer place, directed by Alexandra Matheou (original version in English, Arabic and Greek).
After a short break, director Tonia Mishiali will welcome and present her feature film Pausa, directed in 2018 and starring Stella Firogeni, Andreas Vasiliou and Popi Abraam. This film tells how Elpida, a middle-aged housewife, is trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage to a man who shows no interest in her person or her needs. Her monotony is interrupted and her imagination begins to blossom when an attractive young man comes to paint the building. Elpida confronts her body, her desires and the man she does not love as her perception of reality and her desires begin to blend and blur. Can this pause be a new beginning?
