The Artistic Committee
Καίτη Παπαδήμα
Film Director/ Artistic Director ISFFC
H Καίτη Παπαδήμα είναι βραβευμένη κινηματογραφίστρια, γεννημένη στη Λεμεσό το 1988, με σπουδές στις καλές τέχνες και στο ντοκιμαντέρ. Τελειώνοντας τις σπουδές της, δούλεψε για τη σκοτσέζικη εταιρεία Intrepid Cinema στο πολυβραβευμένο ντοκιμαντέρ The Islands and the Whales και σε άλλες παραγωγές. Mε την επιστροφή της στη Κύπρο το 2018, εργάστηκε σε ανεξάρτητες κινηματογραφικές παραγωγές καθώς και σε δικά της πρότζεκτ, και έχει σχεδιάσει και συντονίσει εργαστήρι παραγωγής βίντεο για το πρόγραμμα In Ex(ile) Lab. Η δουλειά της διερευνά τη σχέση προσωπικών μικροϊστοριών με ευρύτερα κοινωνικά φαινόμενα μέσω υβριδικών μορφών κινηματογράφου και έχει προβληθεί και αναγνωριστεί σε διεθνή φεστιβάλ και στα πλαίσια εικαστικών εκθέσεων. Η τελευταία της ταινία Every Sunday, έχει κάνει πρεμιέρα στο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ του Σαράγεβο και έχει κερδίσει, μεταξύ άλλων, το βραβείο καλύτερου Ντοκιμαντέρ στο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Μικρού Μήκους Δράμας. Η Καίτη είναι μέλος της Ένωσης Σκηνοθετών Κύπρου.
Diomedes Koufteros
Film Director/ Artistic Director ISFFC
Diomedes Koufteros is an actor in theatre, film and television, a theatre director and an interdisciplinary artist. He is the co-artistic director of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus and the artistic program coordinator for Lemesos 2030 European Capital of Culture – Candidate City. He is also the artistic director of Campos Culture and Arts.
As a film actor he received the Best New Actor Award at Athens International Film Festival for the role of Anestis in Elias Demetriou’s Fish n’ Chips. Selected film credits include Maricel (Elias Demeriou, 2025), The Sock (Kyros Papavasiliou, 2024) and Down Payment (Marios Piperides, 2015). His short film Shushu (2008, 14’) won the Best Picture Award at the United Nations’ Shooting Reality Festival. He co-directed Songs of My Neighbours (documentary, 2015, 51’) with Michalis Kalopedis. Since 2022 he is a cinema research specialist for the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus.
His theatre directing credits include Toula (2024), Loulles (2023) and Anna Politkovskaya, a theatre memorandum (2022) for Campos Culture and Arts, as well as Amsterdam (Theatro Ena), and Chekhov’s The Marriage Proposal and The Bear (Theatro Antilogos).
His theatre acting credits include Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret (Theatro Ena, Best Actor Nomination – National Theatre of Cyprus Awards); King Ubu in Ubu Roi (Paravan); Edmund in King Lear (Brandeis Theater Company); and Iago understudy in Othello for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. For Evelyn Evelyn (Paravan / Koufteros / Zachariou) Diomedes won the Best Adaptation prize at the National Theatre of Cyprus Awards (with M. Zachariou, L. Maleni and V. Kokkinos).
Diomedes has served as the Artistic Director of Greater Nicosia’s bid for the European Youth Capital 2021 title; as expert evaluator for the Creative Europe program; as outreach and communications coordinator for Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival; and as visiting assistant professor of theatre at Bowdoin College (USA).
National Competition Pre-Selection Committee
Adonis Florides
Adonis Florides is a film and theatre director, playwright, and screenwriter living and working in Limassol. He has written and directed three feature films — with a fourth currently in post-production — and one short film, all of which have had international festival runs and received awards.
His most recent film, Africa Star (2024), received awards at, among others, the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, the Panorama of European Cinema (Athens), the Barcelona Greek and Cypriot Film Festival, and the Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2024.
His film Rosemarie (2017) had its world premiere at the Cyprus Film Days Festival and was awarded, among others, the Best Film Award by the Panhellenic Union of Film Critics (PEKK) at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Best Film Award at the 15th Cyprus Film Days International Festival (International Competition Section), and the Van Gogh Award for Best Direction at the Amsterdam Film Festival (2018).
He co-directed and co-wrote the films Kalabush and Espresso, which have been screened internationally and won awards.
In theatre, he has directed both his own plays and works by other creators from the Cypriot, Greek, and international repertoires for organisations such as THOC (Cyprus Theatre Organisation), ETHAL, Versus Theatre, Ypogeia Skini/Politropos Synergeio and others. Three of his plays have been included in the European Theatre Convention’s list of Europe’s best contemporary plays.
At the same time, he has directed documentaries, television series and programmes, commemorative events, and has experimented with video art within the “Ideodromio” programme of the cultural platform NEME.
He has been a founding member and president of the Cyprus Directors’ Guild, vice-president of NEME, and co-founder of Cyprus-peace.org, the first online bicommunal platform. He has also worked in television as a director, screenwriter, and producer. He is a board member of RIALTO Theatre and teaches film screenwriting and directing at the Screenwriting Workshop he founded.
Doros Demetriou
Doros Demetriou was born in Nicosia in 1970. He is a cinema historian, events’ organizer, and curator of film screenings. He is a member of ECFA and elected Member of the Director’s Board of CIFEJ, and a member of the Cinema Advisory Committee of Cyprus (SEKIN/ΣΕΚΙΝ – Συμβουλευτική Επιτροπή Κινηματογράφου). He is the manager and curator of film screenings, events and film education programs at the Cultural Workshop Agion Omologiton, Nicosia, and one of the artistic directors of the "Images and Views of Alternative Cinema" (IVAC) festival. He is also the vice-president and curator of events at the “Fotodos” Photography Club. He is a collaborator of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus on various Film Education programs, under the title “The power and magic of cinema”. He is a member of the Board of Advisors and jury member at the British Columbia Environmental Film Festival (BCEFF), in Vancouver, Canada. He is the Artistic Advisor, Director of International Development and Manager of Youth Programs at the Archeological, Ethnographic and Historical (AEI) Film Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus. Doros presents lectures on the History of Cinema at various cultural organizations and schools in Cyprus and abroad. He also has studied Cinematherapy at The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and he is also a radio producer at OldTownRadio web radio station. He is the co-founder of the CineTexts webpage with the Greek recording artist Foivos Delivorias. He has studied in London and holds degrees in Electronic Engineering (BEng - Queen Mary University) and Visual Theories/Cinema (MA - University of East London).
Yianna Americanou
Yianna Americanou is a director and screenwriter. Her short films have been screened and awarded at international festivals such as Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Hamburg, and Drama. Her debut feature film, “.dog”, is distributed internationally by URBAN INTERNATIONAL and is available on platforms including HBO Max, ARTE, and MUBI. It received the Best Cypriot Film and Best Director awards at Cyprus Film Days 2022, as well as an Iris Award from the Hellenic Film Academy. She is currently developing her second feature film, “My Name is Lily,” which has participated in MIDPOINT and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and has received funding from SEE Cinema Network, Creative Europe, and the Cyprus Film Commission. The project was awarded the Pitching Award at DOT.ON.THE.MAP 2025. Her TV mini-series project “ReCLAIM” has also secured development support from the Greek Film Centre. She is an active member of the Cyprus Directors Guild and has served on the international jury of Cyprus Film Days.
Peter Cerovšek
Peter Cerovšek is a filmmaker and curator active in various roles across the film and contemporary art landscape. He is the director of FeKK – Ljubljana Short Film Festival and the Center for Contemporary Arts SCCA- Ljubljana, where he also heads the DIVA Station Archive for video, film, and new media art. As a curator, he programs video and moving image works for numerous platforms. He is the founder and head of V-F-X Ljubljana, Slovenia’s first festival dedicated to experimental film and audiovisual practices, launched in collaboration with the Slovenian Cinematheque. Cerovšek also curates the short film section of the Ljubljana International Film Festival (LIFFe). He is the founder, mentor, and producer of the scriptwriting workshop Short Scene, and serves as Slovenia’s representative for the Euroconnection Short Pitch at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. As a director, his short films have received international acclaim. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Slovenia and an alumnus of Berlinale Talents.
International Competition Pre-Selection Committee
The pre-selection committee of the International Competition of the festival is made up of Spyros Charalambous and Christina Andreou, together with ISFFC Artistic Directors Keti Papadema and Diomedes Koufteros.
Spyros Charalambous
Spyros Charalambous was born in 1971 in South Africa. He completed his film studies in Athens and went on to direct short films that have participated and awarded in major film festivals around the world. He worked in theatre and television and also in feature films as assistant director. He is currently preparing his first feature film.
Christina Andreou
Christina Andreou is a graduate of the Cyprus University of Technology with a degree in Communication and Internet Studies and a postgraduate degree in Theory and History of Art. For her postgraduate thesis in 2022, she researched about Mediterranean Cinema and more specifically with Migrant Depictions in Italian and Greek Cinema, which was also the title of her thesis.
In the last six years she has taken part in various European and Cypriot cultural programs such as Giornate degli Autore 2019, LUX FILM PRIZE in 2019-2020, Rialto Gen in 2023 as well as with the Limassol Film Club of which she has been a member of the Board of Directors since the end of 2022 until today. Also, since May 2022 Christina has been the creator and curator of Tapper Film Club which is still active today. Finally, in January 2025 she took part in the artistic curatorial committee of the Yeast International Student Short Film Festival"