Writing

Stelana Kliris

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 Work…

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The Fiddler

The Fiddler · 2011

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.

Find Me Falling

Find Me Falling · 2024

Find Me Falling

MovieRomanceComedy

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.

Committed

Committed · 2014

MovieComedyDrama

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

Hope

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.

Smuggling Hendrix

Smuggling Hendrix · 2019

Smuggling Hendrix

MovieComedyDrama

Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.

Pause

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.

To the Moon and Back

To the Moon and Back · 2018

To the Moon and Back

A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.

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The Fiddler

The Fiddler · 2011

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.

Writer

Find Me Falling

Find Me Falling · 2024

Find Me Falling

MovieRomanceComedy

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.

Director

Committed

Committed · 2014

MovieComedyDrama

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

Screenplay

Hope

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.

Writer

Smuggling Hendrix

Smuggling Hendrix · 2019

Smuggling Hendrix

MovieComedyDrama

Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.

Script Supervisor

Pause

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.

Producer

To the Moon and Back

To the Moon and Back · 2018

To the Moon and Back

A young man has to tell his girlfriend that he has been accepted on a one-way mission to Mars.

Writer