From June 16 to 22, 2025, the courtyard of the Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking in the heart of old Nicosia will transform into a space of cinematic upheaval, inquiry, and resistance. The festival Images and Views of Alternative Cinema returns with renewed momentum—sharper, more diverse, and more boundary-pushing than ever—focusing on the viewer who seeks beyond the obvious.

Organized by the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with Brave New Culture, the festival continues to offer an uncompromising and unconventional cinematic experience. Its program features retrospectives, screenings, and presentations that challenge the boundaries of narrative and visual expression.

The 2025 lineup includes a tribute to the late David Lynch, who turned strangeness into poetic experience; the ecstatic activism of the Mexican collective Los Ingrávidos; the bodily and memory-infused cinema of Claire Denis; and the haunting voice of Armenian filmmaker Maria Saakyan, whose brief life left behind a powerful cinematic imprint.

The thematic scope ranges from experimental storytelling and postcolonial critique to social commentary, existentialism, and futuristic dread. Highlights include works by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, silent films from the Weimar Republic, and the biting, sarcastic vision of Phil Mulloy.

The festival expands further with performance-lectures, contemporary installations, and radical reinterpretations of the relationship between art, place, and history, such as Konstantinos Taliotis’ presentation "Out of Place."

Screenings begin at 20:00, are free to attend, and are intended for audiences 18 and over. Further information is available on the festival’s official Facebook page: Images & Views of Alternative Cinema Film Festival.

The festival is supported by the Hambis Municipal Museum of Printmaking and sponsored by CyBC (RIK).