The Sea Remains

"The Sea Remains" tells the stories of ten people from the village of Yialousa. The name literally means bathed by the sea and aptly describes the village located on the remote northern coast of the Karpasia peninsular in Cyprus. From the 1960s and the days of a remote and rural existence, through the Turkish invasion of 1974, the years of enclavement and up until today. True life stories that are remarkable and rare.

The Sea remains
We wanted to give the opportunity to certain people who today, 41 years after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus have still not told their stories. We chose to focus on the people that stayed in the village, the non combatants. People that often get passed by in the attempts of history to compile lists of dates, figures and battles .

We have chosen carefully, people from different ages so that we can see the story through the eyes of both children and of adults. The whole documentary rest on these stories which we believe to be unique, not only in what they describe but also in the way the describe it. Simple, direct and human. Without the interventions of historians or any other kind of analysts or observers. We hear the story from the people who lived it.

Our hope is to pass on and preserve a story important not just to Cyprus but for all parts of the world where people had to deal with the realities of war. In the belief that the first step to any future lasting peace must go through such honest testimonies of the past and the present.

Camera - Nikos Avraamides
Editing - Aliki Panagi
Music - Kostantis Papakostantinou
Sound Mix - Kostas Baripompiotis
Colourist - Apostolos Archontas
Laboratory - DCS Digital Labs
Titles - Theodoros Kakoullis
Script / Direction - Christos Georgiou & Giorgos Koumouros
Copruders- Cy.B.C.
With the support of the Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation
Lychnari productions ltd (Cyprus)

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