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As a teenager, Chris abruptly abandoned his dream of becoming a fighter pilot of the US Navy to join a colourful yet reclusive Sufi sect led by the mysterious Turkish-Cypriot Sheikh Nazim. He then harbors a new dream of becoming an Islamic scholar. But the Sheikh has other, maybe grander, plans for him. A decade and half later, Chris, now known as Alauddin, lives in Germany, happily married to Fatima, the wife the Sheikh advised him to marry when he was 17, and working as a cook in the Sheikh’s restaurant. But despite his apparently problem-free lifestyle, Alauddin has begun to question whether the destiny alluded to by the Sheikh will ever materialize. He travels to Cyprus, the Shiekh’s home and spiritual headquarters, to find out.

Women’s rights activist Pembe Mentesh is about to discover ‘The price of a Daughter’, as she searches for her missing great aunt who was one of 4000 Turkish Cypriot women sold into marriage to an Arab suitor and sent abroad some seventy years ago, never to be heard from again.

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.

-Talent? I have no great faith in it.

- Art is one thing and talent another. They are far apart.

Nikos Nikolaides is one of the most prominent figures in Greek literature. He was part of a new generation of poets and writers of the mid twentieth century.

Traditional women potters working on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, who coil build cooking pots, jars, jugs, ovens and other clay containers on a slow moving turntable, us a technique reminiscent of ancient pottery. The women are the last of their generation. The similarities between traditional and ancient shapes, incised decorations, materials, and wood-burning kilns, provide an ideal ethnoarchaeological study of craft specialists.

"I live and create in the place I exist. In that way, painting is part of my life..."

These are some of the words of Cypriot painter Telemachos Kanthos (the father of painting and engraving in Cyprus in the 20th century). This is his deposition in the documentary with the same title.

A documentary referring to the history of the Limassol carnival, through archive material, and interviews.

Director: Thomas Kallis

Producer: Stavros Papageorghiou