CYPRUS FILM DAYS 23/4

All films will be screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles

MISSION ULJA FUNK (Κ)

BARBARA KRONENBERG

93′, 2021, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland

Nicosia (23/4), 16:00

Growing up in a village in Germany, twelve-year-old Ulja, is a smart (and slightly odd) girl, who loves science. When she discovers an asteroid on its way to earth and determines its point of impact, her Grandma Olga bans all science from Ulja’s life. Since Ulja can no longer follow the asteroid from afar, she hires Henk, a boy from her class, to drive her. Together, they embark on a trip across Eastern Europe to witness the greatest cosmic event of their lives.

THE QUIET GIRL (Κ)

COLM BAIRÉAD

94′, 2022, Ireland

Nicosia (23/4), 18:00

Rural Ireland, 1981. A nine-year-old girl goes to live with distant relatives for the summer. Living with a middle-aged farm couple, she discovers a new way of living. But in this house where affection grows and there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one hidden, painful truth.

MOUNTAIN ONION

ELDAR SHIBANOV

90′, 2022, Kazakhstan

Nicosia (23/4), 20:00

11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and, one day, he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mother. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’.

THE FISHBOWL / LA PECERA

GLORIMAR MARRERO SÁNCHEZ

92′, 2022, Spain

Nicosia (23/4), 22:00

Noelia, a 40-year-old Puerto Rican visual artist, discovers her cancer has metastasized after spending several years in remission. Despite the insistence of her partner, Jorge, she refuses to continue her treatment and decides to return to Vieques, the small Caribbean island east of Puerto Rico where she grew up and where her mother, Flora, lives. Once there, she keeps her cancer a secret in order to live freely and throws herself into the work she had dedicated herself to years before: denouncing pollution left by the U.S. military after 60 years of military exercises on the island.