Panicos Chrysanthou
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Panicos Chrysanthou is a Cypriot
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 filmmaker and documentarian, who has won the Abdi İpekçi Peace Award for his film Our Wall.

Biography

Panicos Chrysanthou graduated from the University of Athens with a joint degree in literature and philosophy. He worked as an assistant director and executive producer in Greek and Cypriot films before beginning to make his own films.

He received the prestigious Abdi İpekçi Peace Award in 1997 for his film, Our Wall.

Filmography

Films
Year Title Credited as Notes
Director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

Producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

Writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

1987 A Detail in Cyprus
1993 Our Wall Won the Abdi İpekçi Peace Award.
1996 The Footprints of Aphrodite
1997 Studio
2002 Sylikou
2002 Our Country
2004 Parallel Trips
Parallel Trips
Parallel Trips is a 2004 Turkish-Greek-Cypriot documentary film, written, produced and directed by Derviş Zaim and Panicos Chrysanthou, in which the two directors, from opposite sides of the divided island of Cyprus, record the human dramas that unfolded during the war of 1974 and the legacy that...

Documentary made with Derviş 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...

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2006 Akamas
Akamas (2006 film)
Akamas is a 2006 Cypriot feature film directed by Panicos Chrysanthou about a love affair between a Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot despite their families' opposition and the inter-communal violence of 1960s.-Summary of plot:...

Director's fictional feature debut.

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