Projects in categories: Fiction

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15-year-old Leigh is a gymnast focused on her first competition on the squad. Leigh’s life is turned upside down when her older half brother Joe, who she didn’t know existed, comes to stay with her and her father. But when her confidence at gymnastics is knocked, Leigh finds herself caught up in an underground world of moped crime with her brother. Starting to find excitement and the attention she has been so desperately needing, Leigh stands at a crossroads between her gymnastic dreams and an exciting new world...
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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An unremarkable newsagents sits between a courthouse and a business centre. It’s here that sparks fly between well-dressed Kyle and the equally poised Jamie. Yet despite their composed outward appearances, both are struggling to move on from hardships they’d rather keep hidden. As their feelings for one another blossom, these difficult pasts resurface threatening their relationship before it has really even begun.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand - World premiere

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A young adopted woman tracks down her birth mother only to be confronted by revelations that draw her into the dark world of her father.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Competition - World premiere

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Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Headline Gala

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When a reclusive woman falls in love, it’s easy to fall with her in this tender and sensual story of shocking self-discovery.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand
BAFTA Film Awards 2020 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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Dave struggles to keep his Tourette’s on the down-low while on a date with Jess.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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The Withnail generation had children... and Owen is one of them. His memories of his wild childhood weave a spell on him – or was it the acid he accidentally took as a child? Weaving her spell too is his mother, the free-spirited Marianne. She is supposed to be on her deathbed – but she's not going quietly. The family gather at their crumbling farmhouse for her last birthday. Among the stones and the animals, they prepare for battle. Owen struggles to free himself from Marianne's web and win back his ex-partner Caroline. Along the way he must reckon with uncles, babies, brothers, sisters, children and dads. Love, pain, laughter, wine – and mushrooms. Everyone in this family longs to be free. Their quests play out like a game of hide and seek in the old house – a curiously timeless space full of secrets rich and strange.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Beth, a fifteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. Over the course of an evening on the streets of East London, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner. But Beth is the real monster lurking within our city.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Cult Strand - World premiere

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A heartless and cruel drug dealer is forced to see the hurt he's causing. He refuses to change until it is too late, but is it ever too late?

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Angie is interviewed as she tries to understand how and why her brother David committed terrible deeds.

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Great Britain voted to leave the EU. While euphoria and disappointment are mixed among in the population, William goes to visit his parents and discuss about the results of Brexit with his father. Their opposite vision will open old wounds never healed showing that love could be hidden in unexpected choices.

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A six-story complex interwoven drama filmed around the world based on their individual dependencies.