Projects in categories: Fiction

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Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Critics' Week Special Screening (Short Film) - World premiere

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Marko and Maja are moving flats in Sarajevo. Maja's depression turns Marko's struggle into poetry, and played on the radio, Marko's poems become the last bridge of communication between them. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Critics' Week Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Alone in her apartment a woman, Elle, is waiting for a phone call from her ex-lover (Monsieur). Elle receives two wrong numbers before he calls. The couple discuss their past relationship, Elle blames herself for their problems, claiming, "Tout est ma faute.". Throughout their conversation they experience numerous telephone problems and finally their connection cuts out completely. When Elle calls Monsieur’s home phone she discovers that he is not there, she assumes he is at a restaurant. He calls her back, and Elle reveals that she has lied during their conversation; she took twelve sleeping pills in an attempted suicide, then called her friend Marthe, who arrived with a doctor to save her. Elle grows suspicious that Monsieur is with his new girlfriend, but he never admits his whereabouts. Elle reveals her obsession with the telephone, she has slept with it in her bed for the past two nights. Their connection fails once again, and Elle panics. Monsieur calls her back once more, and Elle informs him that she now has the telephone cord wrapped around her neck. Telling him she loves him over and over. She sinks into her bed and drops the receiver.

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An aspiring autistic photographer is plagued by a painful memory, that exacerbates his persistent struggles with unemployment and negotiating the job interview process. John Clark's debut film SNAPSHOT is based on his lived experience of trying to gain employment as an autistic adult.

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Carys responds to her dying father's request to visit him and her brother in deepest Wales, as he tries to make amends for years of neglect. An inclusive short film about family, truth and reconciliation.

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The eerie story of twin sisters who were entirely silent, communicating only to each other as children. As teenagers, they became obsessed with writing fiction, then with teenage boys, and finally, with crime. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere

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A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich. An uninhibited satire where roles and class are inverted and the tawdry economic value of beauty is unveiled. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - In Competition - World premiere

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A woman in the 1980s experiences the tragedy of child loss and develops Dissociative Identity Disorder as a coping mechanism. Under the supervision of her unorthodox psychologist, Dr. Cahill, she assumes the identity of the infamous flapper girl Zelda Fitzgerald. Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2022

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A lonely widow’s home is infested by a mouldy manifestation of her dead daughter’s spirit, but when her son returns from university and realises the severity of her emotional entombment she is forced to confront her festering guilt and choose between the living and the dead.

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A young woman (Charlotte Reidie) appears at a sickly older woman's home (Melanie Revill) in order to assist her. After a hostile first encounter and despite misgivings from both, the two slowly open up to one another and form an unexpected bond. However, their affinity is short lived when harsh words are spoken as buried memories resurface. Matters spiral out of control as the the older woman struggles to accept the absence of the young woman.

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The close relationship between two sisters is broken down irrevocably, when one insists on keeping up with tradition. Official Selection Vancouver International Women in Film Festival 2022

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1994, Rwanda. As the civil war rages on, Bazigaga takes in a father and his daughter, both hunted by the militia. BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Nomination - Best British Short Film