Βetween Reality and Fiction
14/10, Tuesday, 22:30, Dusty Monkey
What is real, what is staged, what is constructed? Exploring the porous boundary between the real and the imagined, these films slip between documentary and fiction where genres blur and the characters’ inner worlds surface. Together, they reveal how cinema transforms lived experience into story and how it makes the imagined tangible and the real unstable.
Curated by the Artistic Directors. Introduction by Νicos Synnos & Christos Panayiotou, Lemesos Cinema Club.
Nemesio Blues
Attention Brouillard
Alice Brygo, Louise Hallou
20’, 2025, France
Documentary
Synopsis
In an isolated long-term care centre in the French Pyrénées mountains, Nemesio, Colette, and other residents wonder about the future and its mysteries.
The Boy with White Skin
Simon Panay
14’, 2024, France, Senegal
Fiction
Synopsis
Entrusted by his father to a group of gold miners, an albino child embodies all of their hopes.
Perishable Idol
Majid Al-Remaihi
19’, 2024, Qatar, Kuwait, France
Documentary
Synopsis
As the blue sky meets the surrounding seas, the native-turned-archeologist Hassan Al-Failakawy returns to the abandoned island of Failaka, off the coast of Kuwait. Between the desolation and the different ruins of the island after the Gulf War, Hassan is met with questions about return, restitution, and belonging.
My Brother, My Brother
Abdelrahman & Saad Dnewar
15’, 2025, France, Germany, Egypt
Animation
Synopsis
The complexities of a past shared by two identical twins: Omar and Wesam. A split narrative retells the two sides of their memories – from the instant they were fused together in their mother’s womb to the moment they are parted by the tragic death of one of them.
