Screening Schedule
20-22/2/2026
WHAT TO WATCH!
CyFi Fest 2026 opens with a legend.
🧙♂️ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
🎉 25th Anniversary Screening
📅 Friday 20 February, 7pm
📍 Pantheon Theatre, Nicosia
Join us as we begin our movie journey through Middle-earth on the big screen.
One festival. One ring. One unforgettable opening night.
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
25th Anniversary Screening - Extended Edition
NOSFERATU
Join us at CyFi Fest for a special “Near Midnight” screening of NOSFERATU (1922), F.W. Murnau’s haunting masterpiece that shaped the DNA of horror cinema for over a century.
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
🗓 Friday 20 February, 11pm
Near Midnight Screening!
We are deeply honored to welcome key animators Konstantins Visnevskis and Mārtiņš Upītis, who will join us in person for an exclusive Q&A following the screening. Flow made history as the first European animated feature ever to win the Academy Award, marking a historic moment for European animation and independent filmmaking worldwide.
This is a rare opportunity to experience a modern animated classic on the big screen and meet the artists behind its creation 🐈⬛
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia 📅 Saturday, 21 February, 3PM 🎤 Screening followed by Q&A with the animators 🤝 Co-hosted with the Cyprus Animation Association
Special Screening + Q&AFLOW
CyFi Fest & Styx Film Encounters proudly celebrates the 20th Anniversary of one of the most visionary anime films ever created: PAPRIKA (2006), the mind-bending masterpiece by the legendary Satoshi Kon.
A kaleidoscope of imagination, memory, and identity, “Paprika” dissolves the boundary between dreams and reality, and changed animation forever. Its influence echoes through modern cinema, from Inception to beyond.
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
📅 Saturday, 21 February 2026, 5pm
⚠️ Recommended for Ages 16+
🤝In collaboration with Styx Film Encounters
20th Anniversary ScreeningPAPRIKA
Some films are more than cinema. They are rituals. CyFi Fest 2026 is honored to present a special screening of THE CROW (1994), directed by Alex Proyas and starring Brandon Lee, the modern gothic masterpiece that redefined genre storytelling for a generation.
Even more special, the film will be introduced by its legendary director Alex Proyas, who will forward this unforgettable screening.
🖤 Saturday 21st
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
Darkness. Revenge. Love that refuses to die. Join us as Eric Draven returns to the big screen where he belongs.
Special Screening + Forward by Director, Alex ProyasTHE CROW
🕸️ With great power comes… very bad decisions. Swinging into our Near Midnight Screenings is "Detached House" (Η Μονοκατοικία), screening Saturday, 21 February at 22:00 as part of CyFi Fest - in collaboration with Cyprus Cult Cinephiles!
Directed by Ioakim Mylonas, this is one of the most provocative Cypriot films ever made. Mean, tense, and gleefully uncomfortable. A film that crawls under your skin and refuses to leave. A modern cult film in the making.
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
📅 Saturday, 21 February 2026, 10pm
⚠️ Recommended for Ages 18+
🤝In collaboration with Cyprus Cult Cinephiles
Near Midnight Screening!DETACHED HOUSE
A special screening in collaboration with Styx Film Encounters 🛸
“Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) by Werner Herzog! Set in the 16th century, Aguirre, the Wrath of God follows a splintered Spanish expedition drifting down the Amazon in search of El Dorado. As the mission breaks apart under hunger, fear, and rivalry, Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) pushes forward with a private logic of conquest that no longer needs reality-or even survival-to justify itself. 
📆22/02/2026 - 5:30pm
📍Pantheon
🗣️English and Greek subtitles
🎟️€5, free for CyFi pass holders!
RetrospectiveAQUIRRE, the Wrath of God
CyFi Fest 2026 proudly presents the Cyprus Premiere of INFINITE SUMMER, the latest mind bending vision from Spanish-born director Miguel Llansó.
After a wildly successful international festival run, this transhumanist fever dream finally lands on our island for the very first time.
Prepare for a hypnotic, visually explosive journey that drifts between body, technology, and emotion with fearless originality. This is not just a screening. It is an experience.
📍 Pantheon Cinema
🗓 Sunday, 22 February 2026, 7pm
⚠️ Recommended for Ages 12+
Cyprus PremiereINFINITE SUMMER
Short Film Selection
CyFi Fest 2026 begins with a journey through the shadows, the strange, and the unforgettable. Before our opening feature, we present a special Out of Competition Retrospective celebrating three Cypriot genre short films that have travelled across the globe, leaving their mark on international festival audiences:
• Bad Habits (2016), directed by Emilios Avraam
• YKAN (2016), directed by Andreas Sheitanis
• Backroom Blues (2022), directed by Andreas KyriacouThese bold, atmospheric works showcase the power and imagination of local filmmakers who dared to explore darker corners and stranger frequencies. Their stories have crossed borders. Now they return home to open Cyprus’ first genre film festival.
Join us at the Pantheon Cinema in Nicosia for this special retrospective screening, followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers.
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
🗓 Friday 20 February 2026
🕕 18:15
RetrospeciveOut of Competition Shorts
Five visions. Five worlds. One will claim the CyFi Fest Best Short Award. 🤖✨
We are proud to present the Official Selection of Genre Short Films competing at CyFi Fest 2026:
🎬 Fiabexit — directed by Lorenzo Giovenga & Giuliano Giacomelli
🎬 Memphis — directed by Andreas Papakyriakou
🎬 Savis Vs Punks — directed by Constantinos Syrimis
🎬 The Planet That Doesn't Exist — directed by Nadav Embon
🎬 The Lookout — directed by Paolo Antypas
📍 Pantheon Cinema, Nicosia
🗓 Saturday 21 February 2026
🕡 Time: 18:30
Some of the directors will be present to introduce their films and share this special moment with the audience.
🏆 The winner of the CyFi Fest Best Short Award will receive a rare treasure from our partners Geek Mania: a highly collectible, unopened Rex Walking Patrol Robot (1990) — a true relic from the golden age of retro futurism.
Join us for a cinematic journey across strange dimensions, impossible planets, and unforgettable stories.
Short Films in Competition
In Competition Shorts