Today’s cultural listings across Cyprus include film festival screenings, contemporary dance, short film premieres and a wide range of exhibitions.
Festival
Nicosia, Hambis Printmaking Museum, June 15–21, 8pm. The “Images and Aspects of Alternative Cinema” Festival 2026 returns with tributes to iconic filmmakers, rare screenings, experimental cinema, animation, queer feminist interventions and works challenging the conventions of cinematic narrative. Today’s highlight is David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. Free entry. Information: 99407856.
Dance
Nicosia, Municipal Theatre of Nicosia, 8:30pm. ODE, by choreographer and performer Elena Antoniou, is Cyprus’s entry in the 27th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival. The work explores female presence, collectivity and the need to expand the space that belongs to women, both in the body and in the public sphere. Duration: 45 minutes. Suitable for ages 16 and over. Tickets: rialto.interticket.com.
Screenings
Nicosia, Capital Center Square, 8pm. Bloodied Scores, a short film by 17-year-old director Rafail Nikolaou Loukaris, draws on the tragedy of Tempi and attempts to transform collective trauma into artistic narrative. The film receives its Cyprus premiere in two separate screenings in the presence of the director. Bookings: 99566295.
Nicosia, Pantheon, 8:30pm. The Film Club screens the comedy Homo Sapiens, directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. Sixteen standalone stories illuminate the hypocrisy of characters who navigate life in big cities according to their own values and personal interests. Spanish dialogue, Greek subtitles.
Exhibitions
Nicosia
Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. Painting exhibition With a Golden Ribbon, featuring works created by children of the Paediatric Oncology Clinic. Until June 26.
Corridor – ARTSLab. Final-year student Giorgos Chatzopoulos presents HOOK, a site-specific installation. Until June 17.
Art Seen (22006624). Group exhibition Summer Constellations. Until July 10.
Akamantis Business Centre. Photography exhibition organised by Kinanis law firm as part of its 8th Photography Competition. Until June 19.
Marginalia (99657080). Tragia by Pavlos Chambidis. Until June 27.
Apokalypsi (22300150). Group exhibition Code Reconstitution. Until September 12.
Leventis Gallery (22668838). Dialogue: Niki Marangou – Rodi Konstantoglou. Until July 31.
Hambis Printmaking Museum. Mediterranean, featuring works from the Andreas Nikolaou collection. Until July 25. www.hambismuseum.cy.
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL, 22479600). Group exhibition with 50 artists, Agropoiitiki: soils/bodies. Until June 30.
Municipal Square. Water Movement Nicosia, site-specific installation by Maurice Cazzolli. Until June 30.
Leventis Gallery, Temporary Exhibitions Hall. Christophoros Savva: Simple – Complex – Invisible: An Unknown Archive. Until June 28.
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Cyprus Island History. Memory Reality. Until June 30.
Limassol
125 Space (25733994). Group exhibition New Forms, New Voices. Until July 18.
Platres, Minerva Hotel. The Holiday Trilogy by Christodoulos Panayiotou. Until August 30.
XeniArtSpace – Trilogy West Tower (99980009). Photography exhibition Women in Focus. Until September 19.
eins gallery (99522977). A disappearing act, an erroneous camouflaging by Leontios Toumbouris. Until June 27.
Pylon Art & Culture (95950857). INTERIOR by Phanos Kyriakou. Until June 27.
PSI Foundation. Bill Viola. Unspoken. Until August 1.
Larnaca
Pierides Museum (22128175). Nina Iakovoy: Eyes to See and Hands to Touch. Until May 6, 2027.
Paralimni
Municipal Hall. The Office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights presents the first Children’s Biennale. Until June 16.
Paphos
Blue Iris Gallery (26822446). Symbolic Presence: The Human Figure in the Art of Glyn Hughes. Until July 31.
Cinema
New releases: Disclosure Day (directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colin Firth); Greece 3.0 (directed by Michalis Giigindis, Ioanna Kryona and Dimitris Papathanasis, starring Antonis Tsiotsiopolous, Kostas Fytilis, Giorgos Chrysostomou, Alexandros Chrysanthopolous, Daphne Kiourktsioglou, Dimitris Drosos, Aliki Alexandraki and Thamnos Tokakis); Dead Man’s Wire (directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino). RIO cinemas (Nicosia Mall and Limassol), tel. 25871410.
