Projects in categories: Fiction

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In POISON we encounter a man (Lucas) and a woman (Edith) who are seeing each other again for the first time in ten years at the cemetery where their only child is buried. They're meeting after many years apart - the body of their son Jacob needs to be exhumed because toxins have seeped into the ground. We follow them over the course of an afternoon, while they wait for their meeting with the cemetery's caretaker - who never turns up. During the course of the afternoon, both Edith and Lucas drop their masks, and secrets are revealed. Lucas has remarried, his new wife is pregnant and he is writing a book about the loss of his son. Edith has never been able to move on despite doing her best to pretend to. It slowly becomes clear that their whole meeting is based on one big lie. Edith fabricated the event to lure Lucas into meeting her after all these years, without knowing what it is exactly that she is looking for. It’s not until Edith and Lucas have exposed their vulnerabilities to each other that they are able to let each other go, and each go their own way.
Official Selection Munich International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2024

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After a tremendous loss, Robin tends to her tropical garden. When a familiar visitor unexpectedly interrupts her peace. Drudging the painful past back with him, he threatens to expose the fragile facade Robin has painstakingly grown, forcing her to confront the pain she so desperately sought to escape.

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Dani, tirelessly tending to her ailing mother, experiences a turn of events when her mother mysteriously dies while in her care. In the aftermath, Dani becomes haunted by the incessant ringing of her mother's phone, unearthing unsettling secrets...

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Sam's search for identity gets interrupted by a mysterious neighbourhood fox. Together they embark on a magical journey to the attic to discover the surprising things they might have in common, and how to celebrate the ways in which they differ.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Short Film Competition

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As the fear of her impending adulthood becomes louder, a sedentary girl is asked to go to a party.

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A documentary crew explores the cut-throat world of competitive hula-hooping, in which a semi-professional junior hooper seeks revenge against the formidable rival who ruined his world record attempt.

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The remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube-baby’, and the tireless 10-year journey it took to make it possible. Told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards, and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The film celebrates the power of perseverance and the wonders of science as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries who overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so allowed millions of people to dream with them.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Broke salesman Henry is living in his car when he finds out his wealthy grandfather's left him everything in his will. But to claim the estate, Henry must cut off one of his legs with a hacksaw...which his grandfather's kindly provided.

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During the Blitz of World War Two, 10-year-old Harry Hawkesworth roller skates through Gloucestershire delivering messages for the Air Raid Patrol, while Italian prisoners of war work the local fields.
MARMALADE tells the story of Harry Hawkesworth’s experience during the Second World War, as a 10-year-old messenger boy for his local Air Raid Patrol. Now 95 years old, Harry is interviewed by his grandson, photographer Jamie Hawkesworth, for his debut film. He mentions biscuits, marmalade, and recollects the Italian prisoners of war he met who worked the land in his hometown of Tuffly, Gloucestershire. The film gracefully weaves the past and present together through Jarvis Cocker’s mesmerising score.

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A genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge. Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts to navigate a turbulent world, a new stranger in her life and unskippable adverts.

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After everyone else has left for the weekend, detention and science club students find themselves trapped together, and when an internet hate group lays siege to the school, the unlikely allies unite in order to survive.

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Jess and her husband need a new start, so when the chance to buy a rambling old house comes up, they leap at it. But not everyone in Suffolk is welcoming. The locals know a secret about the Maple House, and soon, Jess realises they've made a huge mistake. Something bad happened in that house. Something nobody wants to talk about.