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Simon Farmakas is a Cypriot writer/director. He has twice won the Best Cypriot film award and has a steady upward development in Cypriot and International filmmaking since the participation of his first short film, "Airport for sale", at the 53rd Oberhausen Film Festival.

He has successfully written and directed two other short films, “Absent” and “Stahya”, and a feature, "Sunrise in Kimmeria", which won him Best Director, Best Film and Audience awards in International Film Festivals. (Lucania IFF, Nachalo St. Petersburg IFF, Sacramento Film&Arts IFF and the Cyprus Film Days IFF).

Simon co-directed 150 episodes of a daily drama series (Moiraia Feggaria), for the CyBC, Cyprus' state television broadcaster. The show still has regular re-runs on national television. 

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Sunrise in Kimmeria (2018)

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Stahia (2011)

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Absent (2009)

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Airport for Sale (2007)

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my grandmother had a serious gas

problem.

we only saw her on Sunday.

she'd sit down to dinner

and she'd have gas.

she was very heavy,

80 years old.

wore this large glass brooch,

that's what you noticed most

in addition to the gas.

she'd let it go just as food was being served.

she'd let it go in bursts

spaced about a minute apart.

she'd let it go

4 or 5 times

as we reached for the potatoes

poured the gravy

cut into the meat.

nobody ever said anything,

especially me.

I was 6 years old.

only my grandmother spoke.

after 4 or 5 blasts

she would say in an offhand way,

'I'll bury you all!'

I didn't much like that:

first farting

then saying that.

it happened every Sunday.

she was my father's mother.

every Sunday it was death and gas

and mashed potatoes and gravy

and that big glass brooch.

those Sunday dinners would

always end with apple pie and

ice cream

and a big argument

about something or other,

my grandmother finally running out the door

and taking the red train back to

Pasadena

the place stinking for an hour

and my father walking about

fanning a newspaper in the air and

saying, 'it's all that damned sauerkraut

she eats!'

Gas- “Gas” was published in the book The Flash of Lightning Behind The Mountain in the year 2005, among the collection of other unpublished poems by the late American author, Charles Bukowski.