Projects in categories: Fiction

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Eniola Baba-Lola and Jordan Dante - two brilliant young Black graduates with first-class master’s degrees in business - should be on the fast track to six-figure salaries and global success. Instead, they're hitting closed doors at every turn, even from their best friend’s father, the powerful tycoon Sir John Fenton. With job rejections piling up, dreams of becoming footballers, barbers, or even rappers fizzle fast - especially after a sharp warning from Eniola’s no-nonsense mother. As the pressure mounts, Eniola discovers his girlfriend Monica is pregnant, while Jordan faces a family crisis in Jamaica, a brother veering towards gang life, and an expiring visa that could lead to deportation. With time running out, the friends take a bold leap - starting a business of their own. But with everything on the line, will their gamble pay off - or break them completely?

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In the grey rhythms of a 1990s British secondary school, a student begins to sense a discomfort that has no name, just a feeling that the role they’re playing doesn’t quite fit. Through a missing pair of joggers, an unexpected line from Macbeth, and the quiet rituals of uniforms, registers, and school corridors, this film traces the first flickers of identity forming - not through revelation, but recognition.

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Erin is summoned by a government order that goes out to all single women on their 35th birthday telling them they are now classified as ‘Leftover’ and will need to be processed.

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Santo is a respected religious clockmaker and moneylender in his village. He exploits families in debt by using charm and kindness. When they cannot repay him, he persuades them to send their underage daughters to work as maids to pay off the debt. Ultimately, he sexually enslaves them and throws them out on the street when they become pregnant. His latest victim is Cira, an 11-year-old blackberry picker whose mother has pawned their home and land. After Santo's death, Maria Luisa, one of his victims, with the help of Fernando, his childhood friend and lawyer, fights for justice. After a long court battle, justice has finally been served, but not for everyone. Based on a real story.

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Long-lost siblings meet for dinner. They end the night in drag. By sunrise, a shocking revelation tests the limits of love and acceptance. PAPER CUT is a debut feature from queer British writer-director Jack Sain. Alex has just found Alice - the birth sister he never knew existed - living four tube stops away. He invites her and her boyfriend over for dinner at the comfortable London home he shares with his boyfriend Sasha. Everyone is on their best behaviour. Everyone has rehearsed. By midnight, all four of them are in drag at a queer nightclub. By 5am, something comes to light that none of them can take back. The film puts social satire through an experimental lens, with a propulsive original score and formally adventurous set pieces, including a split-screen sequence. It asks what happens when people who pride themselves on openness are confronted with something they cannot absorb. The cast includes legendary trans actress Adèle Anderson, Olivier Award nominee and longtime member of cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda, and Barney White of ITV's Professor T - pairing established stage and screen talent with brilliant newcomers.

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Based on the classic 2000 AD comic series ROGUE TROOPER is an animated science fiction feature which tells the story of 19, a ‘Genetic Infantryman', who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force. Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and backpack. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival June 2026 - World Premiere

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A railway signalman's routine night shift turns into a race to save a life after spotting a distressed young man trespassing on the tracks.

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Simon, an ambitious young journalist, is on the look out for a good news story. When James contacts him, Simon’s interest is piqued. What Simon ultimately discovers, however, is a longstanding feud involving one dead dog, two angry men and three slain sheep. Against the advice of his editor, Simon senses that he might be able to act as a mediator between the pair. However, he quickly discovers that brokering a peace will be no easy task.

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In an extremist religious commune where masturbation is deemed murder, a teenage boy struggles under the harsh laws imposed upon men. Assigned to work in the communal laundry wash, he must continue to adhere to the doctrine of ‘No Reckless Abandonment’, even as doubt and fear threaten to consume him.

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An aging trucker struggles to keep her business afloat as the industry modernizes. She's been doing this for decades, but then a letter arrives and the road runs out from under her. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

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Two outlaws discover that they have been played and the only way to survive it is to rise above it all and dance. Two outcasts from society discover that they have been played by an unscrupulous world and the only way to survive it, is to rise above it all and dance the evil away even kill "it". One of the outcasts is threatening the other with a gun. They are having a violent interaction amongst the dancers. The dancers are the angels. They come to the rescue of the threatened outcast, by performing the “devil dance" conjuring the evil spirits. They surround the evil and the threatened outcast managed to remove the gun from his enemy and kill him. He has killed and he is evil too. The murdered outcast is lying on the floor and the dancers in turn bow down, in a sign of respect. The dancers toast to the dead wishing it a resurrection to a new being, pure and good. The ballet itself is a taken-on Britain's society in the 21st century and the desperation endured by some members of society too often ignored.

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In 1860s London, three Greek female artists attend a gallery opening, seeking to impress the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.