AWARD WINNING CYPRUS SHORT FILMS OF ISFF 2022

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- “Daphne” by Tonia Misiali

- “Ρέβ” by Nicolas Kasinos

- “Exploitation” by Marina Symeou

AWARD RATIONALE BEHIND THE SHORT FILMS

FIRST PRIZE FOR THE BEST CYPRIOT SHORT FILM

“Daphne” by Tonia Misiali. A plain, frank and touching film, a character study based on a woman whose tour to reclaim herself turns into a reflective and inspired depiction of our time. A story which we will collectively remember as a traumatic plunge into solitude.

DINOS KATSOURIDES’ PRIZE FOR THE BEST DIRECTION

Tonia Misiali, “Daphne”. The director succeeded in illustrating from different angles the heroine’s yearning for connexion and contact in a world where this becomes more and more unachievable, synthesising with empathy and accuracy a story which analyses the complexity of womanly experience.

PRIZE FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCE

Niovi Charalambous for her coherent, cogent and munificent performance of a protagonist who enacts a heroine with fragile psychological condition in the film “Daphne” by Tonia Misiali.

SECOND PRIZE FOR THE BEST CYPRIOT FILM

“Ρέβ” by Nicolas Kasinos

An innermost delineation of life and stolen dreams. The director uses montage smartly in order to reverse our prejudices against a woman who carries on her shoulders her gloomy story, but simultaneously represents a whole generation of women.

PRIZE FOR THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

“Exploitation” by Marina Symeou.

Mr Tsiftelis manages to captivate the panel, mainly due to the beautiful depiction of the heroines and landscapes, giving the feeling of a reframed “Thelma and Louise” film.