Projects in categories: Fiction

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In the middle of nowhere, a toll booth operator with a disdain for conversation and a mild lactose intolerance meets a customer at a turning point in her life.

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Spending his last night as a civilian in his dream-like local tennis club, Michael, a young British soldier confronts a glimpse of the near future waiting for him on the other side of the night. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020 - International Competition

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Barry wants to have vicarious immortality through his children but finds he can’t have kids. His friend invites him to a private club of which he is second in line, The Ancient Order Of Nocturnal Immortal Phlebotomists Of Albion, whose members live forever by sucking the blood of others. However, their membership is literally dying out because of their rare blood group – B Negative. Barry tries to help with their marketing, something he has never done before, and carries out various unpalatable tasks in return for gaining true immortality.

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Borrowing the speech bubble aesthetics of a comic book, a fresh take on the female assassin story. Kora is a deadly but also lonely hit-woman, living in London. By day, she plays the Cello and teaches kids how to play music. By night, she eliminates targets, following instructions from her handler - Andre - a voice on the other end of a telephone. Kora is looking for a way to change her life when a violent coincidence presents itself. A local underworld mobster who has heard the tale of the mortally dangerous woman gets hold of Andre’s phone number, and manages to set a trap for Kora. It’s a nasty surprise but it's a chance to get out, and she takes it.

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Sam is the world’s toughest female bodyguard, tasked with protecting high profile targets for terrorism and assassination. She fought her way to the top in a man’s world and feels more at home in the war zones of Sudan than back at her L.A. apartment. When she’s assigned to protect a VIP in Morocco, she thinks she’s in for a quick and easy job. That VIP turns out to be Zoe, a young and very rich heiress who’s never left her bubble of wealth and who isn’t keen on being babysat. Sam can take a bullet for a president, but young privileged girls aren’t her specialty - especially a spoiled one. When Zoe’s bulletproof, secluded compound comes under attack in an explosive kidnapping attempt, Sam’s skills are put to the test. Accused of murder themselves, they must find a way to work together, determined to hunt the attackers and their corrupt employers.

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A computer game brought to the screen. An evaluation of life in the universe with augmented reality. The game is played by the viewer being the player and is triggering the four "A" (s), the four avengers of the Apocalypse and lost reality. A voice based in the air is guiding the game: everything defining the rules and what is and nothing is what it seems. The presentation on screen is the train of thought from the four avengers.

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A man gets a job delivering leaflets in an attempt to straighten out his life but a chance encounter with a childhood friend sends him down a self-destructive path.

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Alone and invisible to the world, a homeless man and the ghost of a little girl discover they are each other's only hope of finding peace in time for Christmas.

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The writer Deborah Levy imagines a lost lecture written by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.  It investigates an hysterical woman dancing through time, snow leopards lapping milk in the kitchen of Freud’s last house, and a journey under the ground on a ghost train.

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A non-linear narrative film that focuses on the emotional turmoil of a woman, as she attempts to escape from her dark past. As the events in her life unfold, we discover how and why she has ended up on the run alone in Manchester.

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A working class recluse who can control his environment through the power of sound holds the key to a Nazi era sonic weapons programme carried out in 1970s Scotland that has potentially catastrophic consequences for the world at large.

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A business traveller strikes up an unusual relationship with a hotel chambermaid. After a night of adventure, the relationship sours, and he discovers she is not what she seems.