A busy day on Cyprus’s cultural calendar, with a film festival opening in Larnaca, a summer screening in Nicosia, and gallery exhibitions running across the island.
Festival
Larnaca Municipal Garden, 8pm. The Larnaca Cinema Club’s 2nd Larnaca Festival runs for four days, from August 27 to 30, with screenings, films, music, workshops and tours of parks, squares and neighbourhoods. The festival opens today with a concert by the Aurora String Quartet performing music from films that left their mark on world cinema, under the artistic direction of Artemisia Vasiliou. This is followed at 8.30pm by a screening of “La Belle Epoque” at Larnaca Municipal Garden. Victor, a disillusioned man in his sixties, sees his life turned upside down the day he meets Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur who introduces him to a new kind of attraction: a blend of theatrical trickery and historical re-enactment through which Antoine’s company lets clients immerse themselves in any period of their choosing. Victor chooses to return to the week that has stayed with him most vividly: the one 40 years ago when he met the love of his life. Cast: Fanny Ardant, Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Pierre Arditi.
Screening
Nicosia, Constantia Summer Cinema, 9pm. The 27th Summer Screening Marathon runs every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until September 13. Tonight’s screening is Michele Placido’s biographical drama “In the Shadow of Caravaggio” (2022), starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel and Isabelle Huppert. In the early 17th century, the brilliant but rebellious painter Caravaggio is sentenced to death for murdering a rival. Pope Paul V orders the Vatican’s secret services to investigate his life. Running time: 120 minutes. 22348203
Exhibitions
Nicosia
Apokalypsi (22300150). Group exhibition titled “Code Recomposition.” Until September 12.
Limassol
Platres, Minerva Hotel. Christodoulos Panayiotou’s “Trilogy of Summer Holidays.” Until August 30.
XeniArtSpace – Trilogy West Tower (99980009). Photography exhibition “Women in Focus.” Until September 19.
Larnaca
St-art Cafe (7A N. Lanitis St). Group exhibition where all works are priced the same, €250. Until August 31.
Pierides Museum (22128175). “Nina Iakovou: Eyes to See and Hands to Touch.” Until May 6, 2027.
Paphos
Almyra Hotel (26888700). Group exhibition titled “Temporarily Forever / Temporary Forever.” Until September 6.
