Price Of A Daughter
Between the 1920's and 1950's, a time when Cyprus was under British rule, Turkish Cypriot fathers were accepting dowries from Arab men for their young daughters hand in marriage. These men usually from Palestine would then take their fair colored brides back to their hometown. While some of the women were treated kindly, many alas were made to work as servants of the household, whilst others were sold into prostitution.
What happened to the 4000 young Cypriots women sold into marriage is to this day unknown. What is known for certain is that most were left to their fate with little or no contact from their families in Cyprus.
We reveal the heritage that Kypris-Aphrodite, the Great Goddess of Cyprus, has bequeathed to us today, and restore her hitherto distorted image.
Synopsis: Following a group of women frame drummers who are working toward a ritual performance at the famous temple of Aphrodite in Palaipaphos Cyprus, will be able to discover the many shapes and forms Kypris-Aphrodite takes.
Unearthing the first Seafarers
The “Unearthing the First seafarers” is a two sides story. The story of a groundbreaking archaeological discovery which unfolds the mystery of the first Seafarers in the Mediterranean Sea. Recent archeological findings on the coast of Cyprus indicate that groups of people, who had connected their survival with the sea, were periodically visiting the island already in the 11th century BC. Two thousand years before the arrival and settlement of the first agro-pastoral groups, the audacious voyage of many miles in the open sea, alongside with a sea-oriented model of life, introduce to us the first Seafarers of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Entelechy
Synopsis
"The human soul is the entelechy of a natural body having life potentially within it."
Aristotle's concise reasoning, hovering in the vast universe, beams out to merge with the main body of Cypriot director Stavros Papageorghiou's documentary "Entelechy"; an ulyssean, twenty-year long journey in the labyrinths of archaeoastronomy, geodesy and philosophy.
Navigator and fellow traveller in this journey of initiation, is Cypriot researcher and painter Goris Gregoriades. Since the year 1990 Stavros Papageorghiou's camera follows and records Goris' quest for the discovery of the geodetic and archaeoastronomical dimension of Cyprus's ancient sacred temples and sanctuaries.
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