Brief Description
OVERCOMING in London
Date & Time
5pm Saturday 27th April 2024
Location
Cypriot Community Centre, Earlham Grove, Wood Green, N22 5HJ
Full Description
OVERCOMING, an award-winning documentary, tells the story of the division of Cyprus from a queer-feminist perspective. Through diverse interviews, the film explores how the opening and closing of the checkpoints, as the sole passageways between north and south, have impacted the lives of Cypriots while revealing their struggles against the ongoing division of the island and their efforts towards a more united future.
ΚαληMeraba’s first ever screening event was of the new Cypriot documentary OVERCOMING. This film explores one of the least known or spoken aspects of Cypriot history - communication across the border and the opening of checkpoints from a queer-feminist perspective.
Since the forced displacement of communities in 1974, Cypriots were not permitted to move freely in their own homeland until the opening of the Ledra Palace checkpoint on April 23rd 2003. This took place nearly 30 years after the drawing of the ceasefire line and 1 year before the Republic of Cyprus’ admission into the EU as a member state.
After the screening we had a broad Q&A session with the filmmakers hosted by the founder and creator of Root To Vine Podcast. We then finishing the evening mingling @stelios_caferestaurant.
For those of you that missed this screening, keep an eye out for the next one in September at Rio Cinema, Hackney.
OVERCOMING, Besire Paralik, Firuzan Nalbantoğlu - Cyprus, Berlin, Brussels 2023.
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