Stelana Kliris

Writing

Stelana Kliris

Known for

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…

Known for

Behind the camera

Committed poster
6.2

An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.

Committed

2014

Committed poster
6.2

An accidental meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.

Committed

2014

Apart poster
NR

In 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

Apart poster
NR

In 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

Apart poster
NR

In 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

Find Me Falling poster
6.6

After 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

Find Me Falling poster
6.6

After 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

Find Me Falling poster
6.6

After 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

The Fiddler poster
NR

Set 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

The Fiddler poster
NR

Set 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

Pause poster
5.3

Trapped 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

Hope poster
2.0

A 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

Hope poster
2.0

A 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

To the Moon and Back poster
NR

A 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

To the Moon and Back poster
NR

A 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