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One of the many parts of the con is an in-house film festival specializing in screening genre short films from local and international filmmakers!
For this years Film Festival, we’ll be having additional screenings to the classical line-up than years prior. From anime watching for animation lovers, to feature films to even screenings for a dedicated Comic Con film challenge for local filmmakers!
Selections and the Official Program of the festival will be shown bellow on October 1st, 2023.
United States – Runtime 13:25 – Rating: G | Director – Andrew Olson | Writer – Andrew Olson | Key Cast – Skylar Brunk, Marybeth Paul, Jeremy Lloyd, Andrew Olson
For eleven happy years Kara was fiery and independent, leaping over tall couches, jumping off the dock, and best of all reading comic books with her Dad, especially her favourite – The Scarlet Raven, a Golden Age Heroine. Now, on her first Summer Vacation to Cape Cod after losing her father, Kara finds a gift from yesteryear in a magical kite shop – an authentic Scarlet Raven Cape, just like the ads in the back of the comics from when her Dad was a boy. Unfortunately, The Cape is priced as if it really could let you fly! Now Kara will have to decide how far she’s willing to go to find out if the magic is real, and how special a true friend can be. Winner of Best Picture and Best Director at the Cleveland Comic Con Film Festival in 2018, The Cape is an inspirational journey of love, loss, friendship and maybe, just maybe, a little bit of magic.
France – Runtime 17:06 – Rating: G | Director – Yves Piat | Writer – Yves Piat
In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
Israel – Runtime 16:00 – Rating: G | Director – Yoram Ever-Hadani | Writer – Yoram Ever-Hadani | Key Cast – Nikola Vujović, Jelena Stupljanin
A factory worker assembles an enigmatic machine that produces liquid drops from the moonlight.
Cyprus – Runtime 15:00 – Rating: G | Director – Antony Petrou | Writer – Chris Dundon-Smith | Key Cast – Joseph Mawle, Sienna Guillory, James Hyland, Hanna Saxby
Beth lives a quiet rural life with her parents, on their secluded family farm. When her fragile mother begins to hear a mystery sound that nobody else can hear, the family are unsure what to make of it. Soon, the sound becomes a source of frustration and pain and it drives Beth’s mother to the brink. Desperate to alleviate her mother’s suffering, Beth becomes obsessed with finding and stopping the mystery of the strange sound.
United States – Runtime 1:44 – Rating: G | Director – Yaou Chen | Writer – Yaou Chen | Key Cast – Juan Ayala
After breaking up with lady crocodile, the duck man goes on a journey of living in the memory and finding himself.
Slovakia – Runtime 11:47 – Rating: G | Director – Roman Gregorička | Writer – Roman Gregorička | Key Cast – Samuel Borčin, Samuel Michalík, Mya Javorková
Galactic war, from the perspective of a little boy on a poor desert planet. He is having nightmares and visions about the future and he wants to become a Jedi knight. But the war is coming and Imperium is looking for gifted children. Time is up. Which side will he chose?
Belgium – Runtime 25:00 – Rating: PG | Director – Christophe Mavroudis | Writer – Christophe Mavroudis | Key Cast – Marie-Jeanne Maldague, Guillaume Alexandre, Vincent Delré, Maïlyse Hermans, Maxime Rennaux, Helena Coppenjans
Tom hides not only a deformed face behind his flamboyant Commedia dell’arte masks, but also a dark secret that won’t be divulged until decades later.
Portugal – Runtime 10:00 – Rating: PG | Directors – Guilherme Afonso, Miguel Madaíl de Freitas | Writers – Guilherme Afonso, Miguel Madaíl de Freitas, José Alves da Silva
Once upon a time there was a lobotomised bunny who lived in a research laboratory. He had bi-polar personality disorder, triggered by his huge appetite for carrots. One day the bunny brings a carrot to life by accident but also creates something evil. Now both carrot and bunny must surpass their differences and join forces, so that together they may end this threat.
Italy – Runtime 14:39 – Rating: PG | Director – Giuseppe Carleo | Writers – Giuseppe Carleo, Riccardo Cannella | Key Cast – Miriam Dalmazio, Clara Salvo, Alessandra Pizzullo , Salvo Piparo, Giulio Corso, Claudio Collovà
Annachiara lives in the suburbs of Palermo with her family. She wants to win back her ex-boyfriend. Her grandma suggests that she uses an ancient rite that could save the destiny of her lost love.
Russian Federation – Runtime 10:53 – Rating: PG | Director – Nikita Ordynskiy | Writers – Nikita Ordynskiy, Liliya Tkach, Lucas Pope | Key Cast – Igor Savochkin, Evgeniy Tokarev, Antonina Kravtsova , Mikhail Panykov
An official adaptation of the award winning game “Papers, Please” by Lucas Pope. 1982 – East Grestin, Arstotzka. The 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia is over. There is a fragile peace. A border checkpoint now separates east and west Grestin.
Russian Federation – Runtime 11:40 – Rating: PG | Director – Alexander Gavrilov | Writer – Alexander Gavrilov | Key Cast – Dmitriy Adamovich, Dmitriy Smirnov, Aldar Kogaev, Alexander Sokolovskiy, Marina Mitrofanova
It is a story about a geek who has lost the feeling of the edge between reality and his fantasy. He likes to imagine himself as a movie hero (especially when watching trailers!) and one day, sitting with his friends at the cinema, he gets a chance to become a true hero, not only in dreams! The key peculiarity of the movie is its experimental format. The main action is set at the cinema, but in the plot there are several fake trailers involved in which our Hero is starring.
Iran – Runtime 6:30 – Rating: G | Director – Hazhir As’adi | Writer – Hazhir As’adi
After occurring some events for the scarecrow, scarecrow becomes human.
France – Runtime 21:54 – Rating: G | Directors – Thomas Robineau, Julien Paillet | Writers – Thomas Robineau, Julien Paillet | Key Cast – Cyril Benoit, Elsa Agnes
The life of the greatest French superhero the world has ever known.
Cyprus – Runtime 07:01 – Rating: G | Director – Fivos Vassiliou | Writers – Maria Phytidou, Fivos Vassiliou | Key Cast – Andreas Phylactou, Savvina Georgiou, Elena Shved, Alexandros Georgiou
Short story about a young woman who can’t stop thinking about her younger years and her first love.
Italy – Runtime 14:00 – Rating: G | Director – Gionata Medeot | Writer – Gionata Medeot | Key Cast – Stefano Maistrello, Giacomo Valdameri, Elisabetta Del Medico
How difficult is it to be the son of a policeman? How difficult is it to be the son of a celebrity? And how difficult must it be to be the son of someone who is both of us? how difficult is it to be the son of a superhero? Philip Parker is the son of that Parker. Of course, Philip inherited some powers, but he always considered them useless.
Cyprus – Runtime 4:50 – Rating: PG | Director – Antony Petrou | Writer – Antony Petrou | Key Cast – Aviana Bella Petrou
A seven year old girl travels through a chaotic world, while dreaming of saving a friend and or perhaps the world.
Canada – Runtime 13:35 – Rating: PG | Directors – Marco Bossow, Andy Brown | Writers – Marco Bossow, Andy Brown | Key Cast – Troy Mundle, Lee Shorten, Mark Meer, Kat Ruston, Marco Bossow
A squad of storm troopers are transporting a POW with valuable information from Yavin 4, but getting off planet will test their mettle.
Israel – Runtime 23:34 – Rating: PG | Director – Mor Hanay | Writer – Mor Hanay | Key Cast – Michael Moshonov, Avigail Harari, Sara Karp, Rani Blair
Adam has the perfect girlfriend, Alex, which was custom-made for him. Alex is separated from him for 24 hours during the annual ‘Update Day’ and he finds himself spending the time with Yuli, a human being like him, she makes him question everything he thought was perfect.
Greece – Runtime 17:45 – Rating: PG | Director – Konstantina Papadopoulou | Writer – Yiannis Liolios | Key Cast – Alexandros Koch, Maria Stefanidou
In a society where smart apps dominate, a man chooses an environment away of the comforts high technology offers and tries to face a powerful opponent, using only his own strength.
Sri Lanka – Runtime 14:20 – Rating: PG | Director – Akash Sk | Writer – Akash Sk | Key Cast – Shenic Tissera, Stefania Perera, Akash Sk, Kasun Rathnasiri, Anisha Barakathulla
Four friends discover an ancient spirit board and conduct a séance, inadvertently summoning something sinister that seeks its own vengeance.
United States – Runtime 19:20 – Rating: PG | Directors – Brandon Lescure, John Crawford | Writer – John Crawford | Key Cast – John Crawford, Dawn Ursula, Jaci Jones, Kyle Klein
A fan film based loosely on Batman: The Animated Series canon. Synopsis: A younger Bruce Wayne/Batman who has stepped down from crime fighting due to the meta-humans arrival, now finds himself in position to fight one more time as he knows he is the only one who can stop Gotham from being destroyed. During this journey, he finds himself once again dealing with the one he intuitively despised, Amanda Waller. The feeling was mutual.
United States – Runtime 51m – Rating: PG | Genre – Documentary, History | Director – Tom Stern | Writer – Benjamin J. Frost
In 1977, after being rejected by Mattel and Hasbro, Lucasfilm signed with Kenner Products to have toys produced for their sci-fi film Star Wars. This was a huge gamble, as Kenner was a small toy company at the time and the negotiation process started late due to George Lucas’ secrecy over the ship designs. Since then, toy sales of the Star Wars franchise have totaled to US$14 billion worldwide.
Cyprus – Runtime 6:13 – Rating: G | Director – Andreas Sheittanis | Writer – Andreas Sheittanis | Key Cast – Kostas Silvestros
A lonely man’s mental survival in his fish bowl.
UK, France – Runtime 1h 20m – Rating: PG13 | Genre – Comedy, Thriller | Director – Erwan Marinopoulos | Writers – Jean-Christophe Establet, Oliver Maltman and Erwan Marinopoulos | Key Cast – Eugene Simon, Dimitri Leonidas, Bronson Webb, Ashley Thomas, Simone Ashley, Adam Astill, Gretchen Egolf
Within 24 hours, three people have been murdered in London, all by the name of Ben Lyk. Scotland Yard decides to gather together all the other Ben Lyks located in London until they can figure out who’s after them and why.
Canada – Runtime 1h 43m – Rating: G | Genre – Documentary, Drama | Directors – Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky | Key Cast – Jonathan Blow, Brandon Boyer, Renaud Bédard
A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world.
UK, United States – Runtime 1h 40m – Rating: R | Genre – Comedy, Musical | Director – Jim Sharman | Writers – Richard O’Brien, Jim Sharman | Key Cast – Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Canada, New Zealand – Runtime 1h 33m – Rating: R | Genre – Action, Adventure, Horror | Directors – Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Writers – Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl | Key Cast – Munro Chambers, Laurence Lebouef, Michael Ironside
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.
United States – Runtime 46m – Rating: PG | Genre – Documentary, History | Director – Tom Stern | Writer – Benjamin J. Frost
The story behind Mattel’s “Masters of the Universe” toy line featuring iconic characters like the heroic He-Man and the villainous Skeletor, became one of the most popular media franchises aimed at young boys in the 1980s.
United States – Runtime 4h 18m – Rating: PG | Genre – Documentary | Director – Travis Beauchamp | Writer – Travis Beauchamp
The Smash Brothers is a nine-part documentary series that examines the history of the competitive Super Smash Bros. community, in particular the game Super Smash Bros. Melee and eight of the most dominant players throughout its history, including Joel “Isai” Alvarado, Jason Zimmerman, Juan Debiedma, Joseph Marquez, PC Chris, and Ken Hoang.
Congratulations to our 2019 Cyprus Comic Con Film Festival award winners. These films and filmmakers exhibited excellence in artistry and craftsmanship in noteworthy ways. The CCC family and judges extend a warm congratulations to these award winners who have positively shaped the world of film and storytelling.
Thank you to our judges and all the entrants.
Our Film Festival competition was open for everyone to share their short films. We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter and our judging panel, Andreas Sheittanis, Vanessa Hadjijoseph and Nicoletta Touloumi.
Some truly breathtaking costumes walked the CCC 2019 cosplay competition stage! Just like in 2017, CCC held two competitions, one on each day:
Saturday: The CCC EuroCosplay Qualifier 2019 consisted of a fully fledged show where all contestants had the chance to perform their own entertaining cosplay skits and offered the sum of €1,750 in money prizes and selected a representative for Cyprus in London’s MCM Expo EuroCosplay Final with all their flights, accommodation and travel expenses covered! The judges were our distinguished cosplayers and special guests from the Czech Republic Germia, Ali Cosplay & Props and Ketrin Cosplay.
Sunday: The more casual CCC Masquerade 2019 had the audience enjoy an on-stage judging session and an energetic Cosplay Parade and offered the sum of €850 in money prizes! This contest was judged by experienced local cosplayers and past winners Alcaria Cosplay, Molza and DeXter.
This year we had a disappointing drop in the quantity of cosplay participants, but a more than welcomed increase in quality! A total of 36 contestants participated with 61% of them being fully hand-made versus a 41% of partly hand-made costumes.
Without further ado, here are the winners:
Alcaria Cosplay (Gloria Roussou)
As Kassandra (Mercenary Set)
From Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Gloria will be representing Cyprus at the EuroCosplay Championship Final in London MCM Expo on the 26th of October 2019. It has taken her a total of 500 hours of work to handcraft the costume. Here’s the process in her own words:
I made the breastplate out of craft foam and Worbla and I covered most of it with faux leather. I “carved” and removed parts of the leather with a craft knife and carefully painted the exposed part gold. The metallic details were made out of Worbla and Thibra. Both shin guards and the left bracer were also craft foam covered in Worbla which I later painted black and used gold Rub-n-Buff to make them look like worn, archaic metal. The right bracer was a plain sheet of craft foam, sanded and distressed with a rotary tool. Again the metallic designs (eagle and snakes) were sculpted Thibra. The golden chevrons on top are 3mm craft foam. All the belts that interconnect and the skirt/belt are faux leather (thick, non-elastic) glued on 2mm craft foam strips. I sanded and distressed them. I bought a pair of sandals and added straps and small strips of fabric, covered the ankles, and painted them. The tunic was a white linen fabric, sewn into a top and a skirt. I tore some pieces and connected them around a waist band, to make the skirt look flowy, distressed, and uneven. I dyed the fabric a light, watered down, grey-ish colour and added the red linen fabric on it. For the lace decoration on the shoulder fabric I got 2 types of braided trim (a rope-like trim and a zig-zag) which I connected to create a different type of trim. The pin that holds the fabric was made out of Thibra, glued on a safety pin. Both weapons (Spear and Sword) were made out of carved foam, reinforced with 2mm diameter wooden sticks, and then covered with Worbla. The spear has very strong magnets hidden inside the Worbla so that it connects to the magnets hidden in the quiver.
Manic Crafts (Nyree Hapetian)
As Dragonborn (Glass Armour)
From The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Tajfu Cosplay (Anastasia Glushkova)
As Arachne
From Sakizou Illustrations (Mystic Animism Artbook)
Insoriel Cosplay (Eva Demetrou)
As Human Warrior T10 Wielding Calamity’s Edge
From World of Warcraft
EuroCosplay Qualifier |
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Alphabetical | Nana Rei (Styliani Koudounari) | Jester | D&D Critical Role |
Stavroula Constantinou | William Vangeance | Black Clover | |
Masquerade |
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6th | Luna Aelfled | Khajiit | Elder Scrolls |
7th | Andreas Loizou & Mikaella Akritova | Pickle Rick and Birdperson | Rick and Morty |
8th | Prokopis Koulermos | Kratos | God of War |
9th | Καφφετζή Μελαχροινή | Xayah The Rabel | League of Legends |
10th | Christian Jocson | Darth Maul | Star Wars |
Alphabetical | Alexandra Grezina | Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon | The Witcher 3 |
Anna-Maria & Rafael Triantafyllides | Ratchet and Clank | Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction | |
Athina & Loukas Shields | Gang Beasts Chicken | Gang Beasts | |
Catalin Constantin Cazan | Mass Effect & Iron-Man Mashup | Marvel and BioWare | |
Charilaos Michael | Millennium Earl – Season 1 | D Gray Man | |
Constantinos Thoma | Nero | Devil May Cry 5 | |
Daniel Ellinas | Viking | Vikings | |
George Mina | Katakuri | One Piece | |
Kakos Portantaris | Heavy | Team Fortress 2 | |
Konstantinos Paschalis | Blitz (CamoSkin) | Rainbow Six Siege | |
Lydia Shields & David Ackerley | Gang Beasts Fox and Dragon Kigurumi | Gang Beasts | |
Menelaos Mavromoustakos | Guts (Berserker armor) | Berserk | |
Nefeli SImpson | Marcelline Vampire | Adventure Time | |
Nicos Leonardos | Kael thas | World of warcraft | |
Paige McCann | Ciri | The Witcher 3 | |
Sotia Liasidou | Akame | Akame Ga Kill | |
Theodoros Yiangou | Asta (Black bull outfit with demon slayer sword) | Black Clover | |
Vasilis Constantinou | Goblin Slayer | Goblin Slayer |
The Artists’ Alley is a dedicated space for professional and semi-professional artists to showcase their talent, interact with other creative minds and art enthusiasts, draw commissioned sketches and sell prints, as well as other merchandise of their work.
If you are looking for a unique souvenir to take home with you that’s crafty and creative, then make sure to visit the Artists’ Alley and browse the creative works on display! Or, even better, ask one of the artists to create a custom, commissioned sketch for you of your favourite character!
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