2023 Edition
“..working on this edition, we set ourselves a question: ‘what now?’ In a world that so often–and so brazenly–disregards the value of individual and collective life, succumbing to humanity’s destructive instead of its creative impulse, how can we use the power of cinema to help us imagine a better, and radically different future? Now what? What does the future of collectivity, including collective viewing experiences, hold, when the very technological advances that enable us to connect to millions of unfamiliar people and places online seem to also be encouraging physical and emotional isolation, and social disconnects?”
Artistic Directors Note
Poster
The design concept was created by graphic designers Clio Hadjigeorgiou and Lisa Rebeca. The key visual was developed using AI imaging software, bridging the ancient history of Cyprus as represented by our festival’s logo–one of the earliest anthropomorphic figurines found on the island–with cutting-edge technology that is already influencing cinema and the audiovisual arts in general.
