Cypriot filmmaker Stelana Kliris, who topped Netflix’ world charts earlier this 12 months with “Discovering My Toes,” is now underway on her subsequent characteristic, having lined up a global lead forged.
Primarily based on Kliris’ personal screenplay, “Aside from Her” is described as a “drama with the tempo and rigidity of a thriller.” Set in 1974, the story follows a younger lady who flees war-torn Cyprus for apartheid South Africa via an organized marriage. After befriending a neighborhood lady who harbours her personal darkish secret, hidden truths floor, forcing love and prejudice to collide.
The movie shall be led by Palestinian actress Leem Lubany, finest recognized for 2013’s Oscar-nominated “Omar” and the Emmy nominated “The Previous Man.” Lubany shall be joined by Luke Pasqualino, whose credit embrace “The Musketeers” and up to date Jilly Cooper adaptation “Rivals,” and Girley Jazama, whose efficiency in “Underneath The Hanging Tree,” Namibia’s first submission for the Oscars, earned her an African Film Academy Award nomination.
“Aside from Her” is a global co-production with producers together with Susan Simnett and Jamie Harvey from Over The Fence Movies (U.Okay.), Ioanna Bolomyti from Atalante Productions (Greece) and Stelana Kliris herself producing for Meraki Movies (Cyprus).
“I’m thrilled to be working with this improbable forged and superb group on my third characteristic,” mentioned Kliris. “In ‘Aside From Her’ we see a complete nation’s inside battle embodied in a single lady and as an exploration of cultural and private id set in opposition to important historic occasions, the movie feels each well timed and timeless.”
Made with the assist from Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Tradition, the Cyprus Movie Fee’s incentives scheme, the Hellenic Movie & Audiovisual Middle — Artistic Greece, European Union – NextGenerationEU via the Nationwide Restoration and Resilience Plan «GREECE 2.0», Artistic Europe and the SEE Cinema Community, the movie shall be shot in Cyprus.
Leem Lubany is represented by Greene Expertise, Hannah Hodgkinson and Sandy Erickson; Luke Pasqualino by The Artists Partnership, Revolutionary and Genuine Expertise; and Girley Jazama by Actors Backyard:
