Documentaries, Videos and Short Films

UN Security Council Resolution 1325

Click here to watch a Video by the Cyprus Community Media Centre, marking the ten year anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and featuring several members of Hands Across the Divide. Resolution 1325, adopted on 31 October 2000, reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction and stresses the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.

Hands Across the Divide

Short animated film by Myria Christophini (2009).

The abstract animated documentary concerns itself with the presentation of the NGO "Hands Across the Divide", a group of female activists that works towards the establishment of bi-communal communication in Cyprus

See the film here.

Women of Cyprus

Documentary by Vassiliki Katrivanou and Bushra Azzouz (2009).

In the spring of 2004, Maria, a Greek Cypriot, and Zehra, a Turkish Cypriot, cross to opposite sides of the green line dividing Cyprus since the war of 1974 to visit the family homes they had not seen for thirty years. Thus begins the personal journey of these women as the film follows them through their pasts, haunted by war and pain, to their present search for reconciliation and common ground.

Visit the film's website here.