Projects in categories: Fiction

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Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions. Adapted from the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold Summer is a tender, funny coming-of-age story, featuring original songs by the indie darlings Belle & Sebastian. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Strand

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Josie and Carmen are stranded by the roadside on the way to a wedding, reluctantly they hitch a ride with a handsome stranger who is not all that he seems.

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They say freedom's only possible when there's nothing left to lose. But what, in the end, is the real cost of living? In a city framed by capital and loss, ten unruly Londoners navigate their wild and wayward way, travelling on their own terms towards a co-existence far stronger than 'community'. On reclaimed land they find themselves on the right side of history, caught between two train tracks, the present tense and future hopes. They question who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed, in an often contradictory rite of passage. Finding solidarity in resistance, they demand the right to go on. An uncommon story told on common ground, Here for Life dances with a spirited grace and urgency, hovering between fiction and fact, attention and act. Sometimes we simply need to hear our stories told by someone else... Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Filmmakers of the Present Competition - World premiere

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A woman gets stuck in a lift with the engineer that's fixing it, only to discover it's the man she had a one-night-stand with just a few weeks before. As the awkwardness manifests, it becomes clear they both have very different interpretations of the events that unfolded that night. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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A middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.

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Kit, a young British Vietnamese man, returns to his birth country for the first time in over 30 years. He was just eight years old when he and his family escaped Saigon as 'boat refugees' during the Vietnam-American war. No longer familiar with this country and unable to speak his native language, Kit embarks on a personal journey from Saigon to Hanoi, in search of a place to scatter his parents’ ashes. Along the way he meets his estranged family and falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war. During his travels, Kit finally starts to connect to the memories of his parents and his own roots. Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - World premiere

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A couple try out their new cycling cleats and pedals, but their first casual bike ride turns into something else entirely.

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Vickie Black is young and hungry, though working as a maid in London, she has her sights set far higher. Vickie goes into a job interview positive, but the questions from her faceless male interviewers soon become predatory. As the interview takes its toll, Vickie reaches breaking point.

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RIOT CLUB is an urban-comedy based around lead character Eddie Belmont, a former boxer who now manages a boxing club for teenagers with his colleague Barry Rig.

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A troubled young man stumbles upon a creative community group and becomes acquainted with the leader.

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A short film about staying put versus moving forward. About masculinity, fractured friendship and looking beyond your own experience.

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Ravaged by war, the world recovers from a divided past. The last remaining survivors struggle to not only survive, but to also find their place. Morality is tested to its limits and a harsh environment has moulded demented madmen. Exploring themes of mental illness and equality, two strangers - a mute, and a man escaping his past - venture into the quiet world side by side. One looking to save his kidnapped lover from a masked gang of sociopaths, and the other seeking his stolen cassette player while being haunted by bizarre and ominous dreams. Both of them have one destination - a peaceful community only for women - a place called 'Eve.'