Crossroads Catalogue 2009

CYPRUSThe Story of the Green LineCreditsProduced by: Artimages LtdDirector: Panicos ChrysanthouScriptwriter: Panicos ChrysanthouBudget: 1.300.000 EurosSecured Financing: 50%Panicos ChrysanthouDirectorContactName of Company: Artimages LtdAddress: P.O.Box 25314, Nicosia 1308, CyprusT: +357 26 322138M: +357 99 434923artimages@cytanet.com.cySynopsisA Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot soldier who guard posts on opposite sides of the Green Line makea deal to take each other to their former villages on the “other side” of the divide. A dangerous trip withsecret motives; one wants to see his love, the other to kill his father’s murderer.Director’s StatementThe film tells the story of a friendship between two young soldiers from opposite sides of the Green Lineof Nicosia. It tries to show how this friendship blossoms, not by means of slogans, but gradually, as aprocess of the psyche. The two youths have every reason to hate each other; in fact, each of them is a victimof actions perpetrated by the other’s side. And yet, endowed with hearts still pure and minds opento the truths they come across, the two youths manage to avoid the mental straightjacket of nationalismthat is being forced upon them, to feel compassion for each other and understand how alike they are insharing painful experience and trauma.FilmographyAkamas, 2006Parallel Trips (doc), 2003Our Wall (doc), 1993A Detail in Cyprus (doc), 198734