Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Festival returns to Nicosia on June 15–21

Films Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Festival returns to Nicosia on June 15–21 710781911 1538249831645618 4777600692294678623 N Relevant News Right lane closed on Paphos–Limassol motorway after collision near tunnel 12 June 2026 Images and Views of Alternative Cinema Festival returns to Nicosia on June 15–21 12 June 2026 Facebook suffers global outage as users locked out of app and website 12 June 2026 Newsroom 12 June 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber The “Images and Views of Alternative Cinema” festival returns to the courtyard of the Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking in old Nicosia from June 15 to 21, with eight programmes spanning Hungarian dystopian cinema, Soviet comedy, body-centred film art, Cronenberg’s 1980s output and more. Entry is free. All screenings are for audiences aged 18 and above and begin at 8pm. The festival is an initiative of the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the non-profit organisation Brave New Culture. Dystopias and Melancholia: The Cinema of Béla Tarr Three films by the Hungarian director, whose hypnotic, long-take style emerged from the ruins of the collapse of real socialism: his recently rediscovered student film Cinemarxisme (1979) and two major works made in collaboration with Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai, Damnation (1988) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). Curated and presented by Dimitris Babas. Cinemarxisme Embodied Films: The Body Cinema of Arianna Economou A selection of works by Cypriot artist Arianna Economou, a significant figure in contemporary dance, exploring the intersections of live performance, movement-based research and cinema. Curated and presented by Evagoria Dapola. Scanners Boris Barnet: Comedy and Revolution A retrospective of the early work of one of Soviet cinema’s most inventive directors, including The Girl with the Hatbox (1927), The House on Trubnaya Square (1928) and By the Bluest of Seas (1935). Curated and presented by Kyriakos Dionyssopoulos. The Girl With The Hat Box Cronenberg in the 1980s: Flesh, Paranoia and Technology Three films from David Cronenberg’s most defining decade: Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and Dead Ringers (1988). Curated and presented by Doros Dimitriou. House On Trubnaya Square Breaking the Mould: Alternative Currents in Animation Two early European animated features outside the Disney tradition: Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and Alexander Ptushko’s The New Gulliver (1935). Curated and presented by Christina Pari. The New Gulliver Russ Meyer: Fast, Furious and Feminist Two films by the Californian cult director: his landmark Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), co-written with Roger Ebert. Curated and presented by Christiana Ioannou. Videodrome Jeff Keen: Counterculture and Dissent Short works by the iconic figure of British underground cinema, combining collage, performance, painting on film and handmade special effects across a career spanning the 1960s to the 1990s. Curated and presented by Kyriakos Dionyssopoulos. Jeff Keen Queer Feminist Interventions in Iranian Cinema: Three Films by Maryam Tafakory Works by the Iranian artist exploring desire, censorship, gender and the politics of the gaze through repetition, erasure and reassembly of fragments from Iranian cinema, literature and popular culture. Curated and presented by Diego Armando Aparicio. Damnation 1 Werckmeister harmonies Razeh Del Still Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking, 55–59 Ammochostou Street, Nicosia. Screenings begin at 8pm. Free entry. For programme information: tel. 99407856 or the festival’s Facebook page, Images&ViewsofAlternativeCinemaFilmFestival. Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News Right lane closed on Paphos–Limassol motorway after collision near tunnel Facebook suffers global outage as users locked out of app and website Low fertility is not women’s ‘problem’ to solve, gender institute warns Cyprus politicians Overnight pharmacies on Friday, June 12 Mobile signal hunt under way after 22-year-old vanishes on way to Kofinou factory Vietnam bear rescue centre in Tam Dao national park No resolution as Kato Polemidia residents and EAC clash over pylon removal Follow en.philenews on Google News and be the first to know all the news about Cyprus and the world.