Projects in categories: Fiction

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Set in the 1980s, the heart of the story is the relationship between a mother, her daughter and the music of Morrissey and The Smiths. Gina is a young mother attempting to play the role of homemaker providing a stable and loving home to husband Keith and daughter Alice. However, Gina develops ‘De Clerambault Syndrome’ in which she imagines grand passions on behalf of others and reads secret meanings into ordinary conversations. A heart-warming universal comedy that focuses on the life of an unusual family in rural England; addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family – in a frank, sometimes stark, but equally funny and affirming way.

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The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011), famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Aridjis, who knew the artist from her native Mexico, was made guest curator of the exhibition. Set between the real-life curation of the Tate show and something more fantasised, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu - and increasingly haunted by Carrington’s strange artworks. When an elusive, brooding man seems to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is she hunter, or hunted? Enabled by Carrington’s own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends into a world of obsession. Shot on a rare '80s video camera with a unique look, and deftly weaving fact and fiction, the film offers a darkly romantic fantasia of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, putting on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics. Official Selection BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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On the island of Guernsey in the aftermath of World War II, a free-spirited journalist, Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during wartime.

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The story of a life together. It begins and ends in the same place and time - on a beach where Alice has come to reflect on her relationship with Michael. It's both the story of that one moment and the story of their whole relationship, seen through the shifting sands of Alice's memory. The beach is where she and Michael first met, and we loop back to that encounter and then reel forward through time - to their first date, to moving in together, to trying to start a family. Set between Alice and Michael's home and the wild shoreline, we see Alice's memories impact on each other and merge.

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The other universe greys are back abducting earth women led by a returned hive Queen. Bozena desperately wants babies but her earlier Abduction denies her the ability through insemination damage. He man, the good Doctor Asil is determined to find the cloaked flying saucer to gain technology to fix her. Sequel to 'Abduction' A horror/comedy/farce which sees the original characters dance again in a unique tale of Sci-fi parody with more lasers, babies and laughter than the first film.

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Anemio is a non-binary Nigerian teenager, unable to express their gender identity to their conservative family. The only place they feel at peace is the local marine aquatics shop they work in, comforted by the formless and hermaphroditic marine life. So when social pressures escalate, they transform into an anemone.

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A social worker finds herself lost in the deserted Swazi outback when she tries to locate a reclusive community leader.

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Desperate to connect to a British girl adorned with images of nationalistic pride, a young man invites her on a late night date. Still heated from a day of hostile encounters, his social frustration quickly boils over, leading to an unexpected choice.

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23 year old Jessica Anne Khalid, alone and penniless through no fault of her own, thought she had reached the nadir of her miserable life, but within 48 hours things will go from bad to worse. In the face of adversity she summons up the courage to take back control, abandoning what little she has left, including her identity, and sets out to seek a better life. In a different part of the country, lonely widower and retired army officer Peter Jeffries, stricken by grief and racked with guilt, contemplates his limited future alone. When their paths cross, she recognises a kindred spirit, he his last chance to make amends, and together they discover the true meaning of unconditional love.

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How can anyone justify owning a holiday home, solely for their own use, when so many of their fellow human beings are rough sleepers?

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A figure conjures a remedy from jars of spider webs and beeswax, while studying the pages of ‘Micrographia’ (Robert Hook, 1665); the first book to illustrate insects and plants as observed through the lens of a microscope. Commissioned by Folklore Tapes for collaborative project ‘The Art of Magic: re-scoring and restoring objectless index cards from the Museum of Witchcraft’.

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Indie kid Rich lives in a remote cottage in Wales with his mum, Nesta, who is a novelist. He plays a guitar, but mostly to the sheep outside the house and the majestic, barren hills opposite. Nesta is a heavy smoker and has just been brought back from the hospital, suffering, probably, from a lung cancer. Rich is looking after her and helping out with the shopping and house work, but wants her to make a change. They have a heated argument, but she refuses to accept the fact that cigarettes could be the cause for her decease, even though she gets slimmer and noticeably weaker. She spends her days in bed, having lost her writing inspiration. She is visited by the local mobile GP, fitness maniac Dr Mickiewicz, who runs through forests and fields to reach his patients. He prescribes her movement and to Nesta's astonishment, even a fitness program which she has to follow. Nesta finds the very idea of her getting fit and taking up running ridiculous...