# ‘Apart,’ Set in Cyprus and Apartheid South Africa, “Challenges the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’” (Exclusive Tallinn Trailer)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/apart-set-in-cyprus-and-apartheid-south-africa-challenges-the-idea-of-us-and-them-exclusive-tallinn-trailer/
- Published: 2026-10-23T08:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T09:10:55+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/apart-film-trailer-cyprus-apartheid-south-africa-tallinn-1236738213/
- Topics: Africa, Americas, Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, World

## Key points

- A Cypriot woman leaves home for apartheid South Africa in 1974.
- *Apart* explores belonging, identity and connections across divided societies.
- The film draws on director Stelana Kliris’s family history.

## Summary

Stelana Kliris’s film *Apart* follows a young woman who leaves divided Cyprus during the 1974 invasion and arrives in apartheid South Africa through an arranged marriage. The story explores displacement, belonging and human connection across two societies shaped by division.

Starring Leem Lubany, Luca Pasqualino and Girley Jazama, the film moves between South Africa and flashbacks to Cyprus, drawing on the real experiences of Kliris’s refugee parents. Its central plot is fictional, though the filmmaker says individual events are based on real ones; *Apart* will have its world premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and open its Critics’ Picks section.

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