October is a month full of cinematic events in the beautiful city of Cyprus, Limassol.In detail, what we can expect from Rialto theater is as follow:
1.10_ Be Arielle F Simon Senn, OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL 16+, Saturday 21:00 (60’)
Simon Senn, a visual and video artist from Geneva, purchased the digital copy of a female body online, then embarked on a quest to meet the woman whose body he would go on to inhabit thanks to virtual reality. On Rialto’s stage, Simon will share this uncanny experience with the audience.
Concept, Performance: Simon Senn
Organised by: Dance House Lemesos
Tickets: €10/8
3.10_ Fountainhead KING VIDOR, Monday 20:00 (160’) (1949-USA)
«Urbanreflections» the art, architecture, and urbanism platform, in collaboration with Lemesos International Documentary Festival, within the framework of a research and exhibition project, proposes the film adaptation of the controversial book The Fountainhead. The film observes a visionary uncompromising architect who is “heroized” while confronting the collective imaginary, the popular symbols, and all collective aspirations.
Short presentations will take place and discussion will follow.
Tickets: €5
4.10_ Music has no borders & barriers, Tuesday 20:30 (75’)
A journey across multiple music genres presenting works of Bizet, Kurt Weil, Lehar, Οffenbach, Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, as well as of acclaimed Cypriot composers. With the participation of: Kyriakos Kyriakou, Costas Apokides, Rafaella Charalambous (mezzo-soprano) and Panayiota Kapnisi (soprano). Michalis Michael will be playing music with his eyes via the innovative Eyeharp application.
Tickets: €12/8
8-14.10_ ISFFC International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2022, Saturday – Friday 20:30 (18+)
The 12th International Short Film Festival of Cyprus presents selected films directed by Cypriot and international filmmakers, offering to the local audience a unique opportunity to enjoy the best of international short film cinema. The ISFFC will be showcasing a long list of fiction, documentary and experimental short films from across the globe, and it is curated by Artistic Directors Ioakim Mylonas and Alexia Roider.
Free entrance/Booking in advance is required.
19.10_ VESSELΤhe mantras room | LIA HARAKI, Wednesday 14:00 – 22:00
The new work by Lia Haraki to the sound design of Yiannis Christofides will focus on the ritual body of the viewer, which the artist will seek to activate with sound pieces in the style of mantras, on Rialto Theatre’s stage, which will be functioning as a room. Through the repetition of the thought/word of the pieces, which will convey statements related to success and well-being in the contemporary western society, the desired reality that they convey may possibly become true.
Tickets:€12/10
21&23.10_ Walking | Maria Varnakkidou, Constantina Andreou, Friday 18:00 & Sunday 11:00 & 18:00 (60’)
This interactive soundwalk around and across Heroes’ Square is dedicated to those people who lived it, are currently living it and who will experience it in the future. Curated by Maria Varnakkidou and Konstantina Andreou
Part of Limassol Art Walks.
Free entrance (Booking in advance is required).
24.10_ EARTH | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Monday 20:00 (115’) (2019)
While evaluating landscapes of Limassol through workshops, the art, architecture, and urbanism platform “Urbanreflections” introduces the European Landscape Convention to the public. In parallel, and in collaboration with Lemesos International Documentary Festival, it proposes the poetic multi-awarded film screening EARTH in which observes people in mines, quarries, and large construction sites in a constant struggle to transform the planet.
Short presentations will take place and discussion will follow.
Tickets:€5
26-28.10_ The Animattikon Project, Wednesday to Friday.
Μore than 50 animated films will be screened by both acknowledged and emerging artists from across the world. These films will also compete for the “Golden Hats” awards, in seven different categories. “The Animattikon Project” sets out for its fifth edition, introducing for the very first time the collaboration between Kimonos Art Center, Cyprus University of Technology and the Rialto Theatre.
Wednesday: 20:30 – 22:00 Cypriot and International Student Films
Thursday: 20:30 – 22:00 Iinternational Short Films
Friday: 17:00 – 18:30 Short Films for Children
20:30 – 22:00 Animated documentaries, animated music videos and commissioned animated films
22:00 – 22:30 Golden Hats Awards Ceremony
Tickets:€5 (entrance free for children and students)
29.10_ An urgent email from Mr Chekhov THEATRO DENTRO, Saturday 20:30 (70’) *in Greek
Where does the playwright, the director and the actor stand when, outside the theatre, away from this well-protected and impassioned space that is the stage, a war is raging?
Directed by: Yiannis Leontaris
Cast: Stavros Louras, Christina Pavlidou, Polyxeni Savva, Marios Mettis, Katerina Loura
Tickets: €15/12