TONGUE (2020)

The past and present, the personal and the political, become intermingled as “Tongue” emerges from within the history of the Cypriot radical Left. “Tongue” stands for language, for communication, for the tongue that speaks, that defies, that licks wounds and caresses. Such is the filmmakers’ Panayiotis Achniotis and Andreas Anastasiades understanding of the Cypriot experience. Taking as a starting point the death of Cypriot activist Costis Achniotis in 2017, the filmmakers look back at Achniotis' life and his role in the development of the Cypriot radical Left - from the 1970s to the emergence and establishment of the bi-communal movement for peace and reunification from the 1980s onward. The filmmakers engage in parallel quests between the past and present, bringing together personal artefacts, new and archival material in order to understand the dialectics and poetics of the ethnic clash and division of Cyprus’ current environment.

Director: Panayiotis Achniotis, Andreas Anastasiades

Video Editing: Christiana Pyrishi, Panayiotis Achniotis, Andreas Anastasiades

Audio Editing: Evagoras Bekiaris

Graphics: Frixos Petrou

Communication: Eleni Tzialli

Music: Antonis Antoniou, Andrei Yakovlev Michaelides