A Farhadi film starring Isabelle Huppert, Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Cristian Mungiu’s new film ‘Fjord’ are among the highlights of this week’s cultural listings, alongside exhibitions in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos.
SCREENING
Nicosia, Pantheon, 8.30pm. The Film Society screens Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’, starring Isabelle Huppert. Sylvie, a writer, watches a flat opposite her own, observing how the people there live and what they do. She then writes a novel, which her publisher rates poorly. A young man who helps her takes the discarded novel and passes it off as his own to win over the attractive neighbour. All this upends the lives of the three people living in the flat, though the film is more than this linear story. Dialogue: French. Subtitles: Greek. 2026, 139 minutes.
THEATRE
Nicosia, Dentro Theatre, 8.30pm. Florian Zeller’s multi-award-winning and much-discussed play ‘The Father’, directed by Giannis Leontaris with Stavros Louras in the lead role. Cast: Stavros Louras, Alexandros Parisis, Vasiliki Kypraiou, Katerina Loura, Onisiforos Onisiforou, Kristi Charalambous. Next performance: October 27. Duration: 90 minutes. Tickets: Sold Out Tickets, 99520835, and Stephanis stores.
EXHIBITIONS
Nicosia
Diatopos Art Centre (22766117). ‘A Planet in Common’ by Giannos Oikonomou. Until November 13.
Thkio Ppalies. ‘Routine Maintenance: A Tale’, a sculptural sound installation by the Lower Levant Company, Emiddio Vasquez and Peter Eramian, in collaboration with visual artist Olga Micińska. Until November 6. thkioppalies.org
Sic. Contemporary Culture (97 867289). ‘Scores for Somatheque Orchestra’ by Loizos Olympios. Until November 13.
Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Coin exhibition ‘Messages in Metal: A Timeless Dialogue with Cyprus’. Until January 10, 2027.
Museum (22430008). Four important relics from the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan come to Nicosia for the temporary exhibition ‘Faith and Identity – Relics from the History Museum of Armenia’. Until April 9, 2027.
Isnotgallery contemporary (99569498). ‘The Alnwick Garden’ by Dimitris Neokleous. Until October 31.
Marginalia Gallery (99657080). ‘Wanderings’ by Minas Kampitakis. Until October 31.
Old Town. The video art exhibition ‘Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear’ unfolds in the streets of old Nicosia, as a parallel event to the exhibition ‘Bill Viola. Unspoken’ at the PSI Foundation in Limassol. Until November 2. Information: PSI Foundation.
Art Seen (22006624). ‘The Future of the Past’ by Andreas Kallis. Until November 6. art-seen.org
Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking (22496930). ‘Coexistence: A. Tassos – Hambis’. Until July 24, 2027.
Limassol
Lania, Michael Owen Gallery (25432404). Tribute exhibition to the painter Michael Owen. Until November 1. michaelowengallery.com
The Edit Gallery (25251710). ‘Twelfth Night’ by Evelyn Anastasiou. Until November 14.
Rouan (25350845). ‘The Sanctuary of Small Things’ by Georgia Michaelidi Saad. Until November 13.
The Gallery 45 (97901106). Group exhibition ‘Land Written in Verse: Contemporary Landscapes’. Until November 29.
Pylon Art & Culture (95 950857). ‘Tracing Angel’s Men’ by Theopisti Stylianou Lambert. Until December 19.
eins (99522977). ‘On Second Thoughts’ by Alexandros Pissourios. Until December 15.
Velychko Gallery (96855580). ‘MURMUR kairos’ by Kyriaki Costa. Until December 15.
NeMe. Group exhibition ‘Power Lines’. Until November 6.
XeniArtSpace Gallery, Trilogy Plaza. Group exhibition ‘Channelled: Women in Art Across Centuries’. Until March 5.
Lumière Contemporary Art Gallery. ‘Some Body’ by Christina Drakou. Until November 5.
Larnaca
Cypriot Corner Gallery (24621109). ‘unnamed’ by Spyros Agathou. Until October 31.
Pierides Museum (22128175). ‘Nina Iacovou: eyes to see and hands to touch’. Until May 6, 2027.
Paphos
Ibrahim’s Khan (99311225). ‘Harmoni’ by Chiaki Kamikawa. Until October 31.
CINEMA
NEW RELEASES: ‘Clayface’ (directed by James Watkins, with Tom Rhys Harries, Ruby Sear, Naomi Ackie), ‘The Influenser Project’ (directed by Mike Nybroe, with Jemma Karlsen, Eos Karlsson, Chiara King), ‘Cats in the Museum: Treasures of Egypt’ (animation, directed by Vasiliy Rovenskiy), ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ (animation, directed by Dave Green). RIO Limassol and Nicosia Mall, tel. 25871410.
Nicosia, Pantheon Cinema. ‘Fjord’, the new film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, is a social drama about clashing values, faith, family and the limits of tolerance. October 28, 5.30pm and 8.30pm. October 27/28, 8.30pm. Duration: 146 minutes. pantheon-theatre.com
