Projects in categories: Fiction

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A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
Audience Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020

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Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere

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Before Alice found Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of despair until finally they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Kids - World premiere

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When 80-year-old independent farmer Willis travels to Los Angeles for an indefinite stay with son John and his family, two very different worlds collide. Mentally declining Willis is abrasive, caustic, and funny, bringing old wounds from the past and years of mutual mistrust to the surface.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020

Synopsis

LOOK THEN BELOW was filmed in Somerset, a place transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped island in an oily ocean with a cave basking in a subterranean glow. Time seems to stand still there.
After SLOW ACTION and URTH, this is the final part of a trilogy developed with American SF author Mark von Schlegell.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition - World premiere

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When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan, a talented archaeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - In Competition - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere

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Quiet and demure Joseph (Ben Whishaw) leads a modest life in London, shuttling between his solo apartment and the airport where he forms part of the security team. His birthday goes unnoticed by his colleagues and only mildly celebrated by his irritable parents. Something seems to be simmering in Joseph just under the surface. It only takes a few strange incidents to unlock his impulse to go on a reckless, frantic, and unbelievable journey through the streets of the city as he determines that boundaries and niceties will no longer govern his life.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Panorama - International premiere

Synopsis

Following Bertie Oldcross, Labour's candidate for Scarborough and Whitby, and his campaign manager Simon, in the final two days of the 1997 UK general election. Bertie is heading for a sure victory but as the pair drive to an end of campaign party they accidentally run over a local man. Knowing the potential repercussions of this going public on the eve of polling day they embark on an overnight cover up operation in the hope of averting these outcomes, but will the morality of their actions become too much for the men to bear?

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A child gets ready for a good night of sleep, but something terrible lurks under the bed.
This film is based on a comic strip by Laerte Coutinho, one of the most famous cartoonists in Brazil. She is a transgender woman, activist and founder of the 'Brazilian Association of Transgender People'.

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A fly on the wall comedy drama observing a myriad of authentic London lives being led - their only common thread being their interactions with a delivery app driver, also moonlighting as a drug dealer.

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Mel builds sculptures of her crisps-obsessed crush. When the moon vanishes before her eyes, she must find a way to save the world before it crumbles into tiny pieces.

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A day in the lives of a 12-year-old kid with special needs and his 14 year-old-sister, when she chooses to be the motherly figure in her brother's life, unlike all the days up until that moment, when she thought it was forced on her.