Cyprus International Short Film Festival is an international film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 for short films.

Inauguration

In its inauguration year of 2008, the festival received over 300 submissions from 39 different countries. The jury was composed of the Greek Cypriot film director Panicos Chrysanthou

Panicos Chrysanthou

Panicos Chrysanthou is a Cypriot filmmaker and documentarian, who has won the Abdi İpekçi Peace Award for his film Our Wall.- Biography :...

, Turkish Cypriot film director Dervis Zaim

Dervis Zaim

Derviş Zaim is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass and Dot ; Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin ; and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland...

, Russian journalist Simon Ostrovsky, and the Turkish actress Demet Evgar

Demet Evgar

Demet Evgar is a Turkish actress with an increasing fame in Turkey through roles in feature films and TV series but who also still pursues an active career as an actress in theatre where she had made her débuts...

.