The Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus made great efforts in 2017 to expand the country’s activities in various aspects concerning the cinema, including film production, film education and providing incentives for foreign productions. The launch of the new website filming in Cyprus is part of this effort.

The Ministry of Education and Culture put in place the Regulation for Funding Programs for the period 2017-2020. The program offer an amount of up to 50 percent of the budget for feature films and up to 60 percent for cross-border productions.

The programs also offer funding of up to 70 percent for difficult feature films, which are to be filmed in one of the two official languages of the Republic of Cyprus or a combination of the two. For feature films with an extremely low budget (lower than 85,000 EUR), the program offers a funding of 80 percent. Short films may receive up to 80 percent of the funding.