I grew up between two worlds. A North London childhood, and a Cyprus I visited in fragments, summer after summer, memory after memory. It was there, as a child, that I first felt the strange ache of division. The line you couldn’t see, but that everyone felt. The stories people didn’t tell. The silence that lived between neighbours.
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​Green Line is the story I’ve wanted to tell my entire life. A film not just about a moment in history, but about the quiet heartbreak of what we lose when we let fear draw our borders. At its core, this is a love story, between two young people born into the wrong sides of a map. But it’s also a mirror. For Cyprus. For our own countries. For every generation that inherits conflict and has to decide whether to repeat it or rewrite it.

Stylistically, the film will be quiet, restrained, poetic, drawing on visual intimacy, but grounded in Cyprus’s dry landscapes, cracked walls, and olive trees older than memory. The tone will avoid melodrama. Emotions will live in glances, in stillness, in things left unsaid. When violence comes, it will come like a whisper, terrifying not for its scale, but its inevitability.

This isn’t just a story about Cyprus. It’s about colonial legacy, nationalism, and the false comfort of belonging. It’s about how empire manipulates identity. And how the people caught in the middle especially the young are asked to pay the price. With Green Line, I want to make a film that is as political as it is personal. A film that resonates across borders. One that remembers—and refuses to forget.

- Cey Sesiguzel, Director