From Emily Brontë’s passionate tale on the big screen to contemporary art exploring ecological crisis and Cypriot myths, here’s what’s happening across Cyprus this week.
CINEMA
Cyprus cinemas. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, arrives in Cyprus cinemas today – a passionate story of love, obsession and destruction where two souls unite only to lose themselves together. From Warner Bros. Pictures and Oscar and BAFTA-winning creator Emerald Fennell comes the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie alongside Jacob Elordi.
Nicosia, Pantheon Cinema, 8.30pm. Screening of the Cypriot co-production and award-winning film by Greek director Penny Panayotopoulou, Wishbone. A social drama exploring the social and economic pressures of contemporary reality through the story of Kostas, a young security guard at a public hospital who, after his older brother’s sudden death, is forced to become guardian of his niece whilst drowning in debts on the family home. pantheon-theatre.com.
EXHIBITIONS
Nicosia
83 Aeschylou Street (opposite Faneromen schools, basketball court). Group exhibition titled “The homeland of our thoughts”. Until 22/2
Gloria (22762605). “Topographies” by Andreas Karagian. Until 17/2
Apokalypsi (22300150). “Two gazes”, by Panayiotis Pasanda and Yiorgos Gerontidis. Until 21/2
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL – 22479600). Group exhibition with 50 artists titled “Agropo(i)etics: soils/bodies”. Until 30/6
Korai Project Space. “Ground Matter” by Melita Couta. Until 27/2
Kastelliotissa. Multi-thematic exhibition by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation titled “Myths of Cyprus”. Until 25/2
NiMAC (2797400). In the exhibition Fluid Persistence, 19 artists explore urgent issues concerning ecological disaster, the role of water in narrative and fiction. Until 31/5
Municipal Square. “Water Movement Nicosia”, site-specific installation by Maurice Cazzolli. Until 30/6
Leventis Gallery Temporary Exhibitions Hall. “Christoforos Savva: Simple – Complex – Invisible: An unknown archive”. Until 28/6
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. “Cyprus Island History. Memory Reality”. Until 30/6
Limassol
Eins (99522977). “Keep the music for yourself” by Marietta Mavrokordatou. Until 14/3
3FHome (99930065). “I See Art as a Way to Change the World” by Marina Olympiou. Until 10/3
125 Space (25733994, 99008867). Group exhibition titled “In Parallel: Conversations on Love, Life & Light”. Until 28/2
Larnaca
Kypriaki Gonia (24621109). “In the constellation of Pisces” by Antros Ropalis. Until 21/2
CINEMA
NEW FILMS: Wuthering Heights (directed by Emerald Fennell with Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau), Crime 101 (directed by Bart Layton with Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry), What Are We Made Of (documentary by Siamak Etemadi), Goat (animation directed by Tyree Dillihay, Adam Rosette) – RIO (Nicosia Mall and Limassol) tel. 25871410.
