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Stelana Kliris
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Writing
Credits
15 titles
Stelana Kliris is a South African-Cypriot writer, director and producer known for Committed (2014) and Find Me Falling (2024). Stelana is developing several new projects under her production company Meraki Films, including her next feature film Apart from Her and the series Unexpected which participated in the 2019 Midpoint TV Launch Programme and won Best Pilot at the 2022 Owl Screenwriting Workshop. Kliris is a member of the European Women's Audiovisual Network (EWA) and the Directors Guild of Cyprus, as well as a graduate of the 2018 EAVE Producers Workshop and an EFP Producers on the Move alumna. She is inspired by stories with heart and humanity and has a wealth of tales from her mult…
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6.2An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.
Committed
2014
NRIn 1974, when Turkey invades Cyprus, young Eleni leaves her homeland through an arranged marriage and finds herself in apartheid South Africa, swapping one divided country for another. There, a new life with Nico slowly turns into love, until an unexpected friendship forces her to confront a secret from her past.
Apart
2026
6.6After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.
Find Me Falling
2024
NRSet in Cyprus is the 1950s. It is the story of a poor man who dreams of owning a violin and becoming a fiddler. But life and love get in the way and force him to make a choice between his passion and his responsibilities.
The Fiddler
2011
5.3Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
Pause
2018
2.0A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.
Hope
2011
Behind the camera
6.2An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.
Committed
2014
6.2An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.
Committed
2014
NRIn 1974, when Turkey invades Cyprus, young Eleni leaves her homeland through an arranged marriage and finds herself in apartheid South Africa, swapping one divided country for another. There, a new life with Nico slowly turns into love, until an unexpected friendship forces her to confront a secret from her past.
Apart
2026
NRIn 1974, when Turkey invades Cyprus, young Eleni leaves her homeland through an arranged marriage and finds herself in apartheid South Africa, swapping one divided country for another. There, a new life with Nico slowly turns into love, until an unexpected friendship forces her to confront a secret from her past.
Apart
2026
NRIn 1974, when Turkey invades Cyprus, young Eleni leaves her homeland through an arranged marriage and finds herself in apartheid South Africa, swapping one divided country for another. There, a new life with Nico slowly turns into love, until an unexpected friendship forces her to confront a secret from her past.
Apart
2026
6.6After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.
Find Me Falling
2024
6.6After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.
Find Me Falling
2024
6.6After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.
Find Me Falling
2024
NRSet in Cyprus is the 1950s. It is the story of a poor man who dreams of owning a violin and becoming a fiddler. But life and love get in the way and force him to make a choice between his passion and his responsibilities.
The Fiddler
2011
NRSet in Cyprus is the 1950s. It is the story of a poor man who dreams of owning a violin and becoming a fiddler. But life and love get in the way and force him to make a choice between his passion and his responsibilities.
The Fiddler
2011
5.3Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
Pause
2018
2.0A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.
Hope
2011
2.0A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.
Hope
2011
NRA young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.
To the Moon and Back
2018
NRA young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.
To the Moon and Back
2018
