Pulling up to the festival in bicycle style

By Maria Gregoriou

This Saturday Limassol will get into gear to kick off the tenth Lemesos International Documentary Festival at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre.

This year the opening film will be Bikes Vs Cars by Fredrik Gertten, a documentary which looks into the daily global drama of traffic around the world. Activists and cities around the globe try to promote cycling to reduce urban problems. The question is, will the economic powers allow for such a thing? This may be a question you can put to the documentary’s producer, Elin Kamlert, who will be present at the screening at 8.30pm.

But before the actual screening and the official opening of the festival, inspired by the first documentary of the year, the Limassol Cycling Club will host a cycling tour from the Limassol Mediaeval Castle at 7.30pm. The tour will finish at the festival’s venue just before the first screening. So if you enjoy cycling, why not join the club and pull up to the festival in green style?

The second documentary to be screened on Saturday will be the silent film Man with a Movie Camera. The film, directed by Dziga Vertov, pays homage to everyday life in the Soviet Union during the 20s.

The documentary was recently voted the greatest documentary of all time in a poll of some 300 film-makers and critics.

Cypriot musician Demetris Zachariou, together with Andreas Rodosthenous on bass and Andreas Stefanou on percussions, will perform live during the screening.

10th Lemesos International Documentary Festival
Screening of documentaries. August 1-8. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol. 8pm. €2 per film. Tel: 25-342123

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