Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young man grappling with melancholy, is stunned to learn he is 62% wasp. As he faces confusion, isolation, and rejection, he embarks on a strange journey to understand himself and confront what this diagnosis truly means. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Sascha, a young athlete returns to her family home and community following an injury, and confronts her father’s long-term illness. A film that speaks to rest, decline, and generational yearning.

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Set in the rugged landscape of 1790s Britain, Tornado is a young and determined Japanese woman who finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father’s travelling puppet samurai show crosses paths with a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman and his ambitious son Little Sugar. In an attempt to create a new life for herself, Tornado seizes the opportunity to take matters into her own hands and steal the gold from their most recent heist. With her father murdered by the gang and her life in grave danger, what follows is a thrilling tale of adrenaline-fuelled action, as Tornado races against time to escape a violent demise and avenge her father's death. Armed with her father's samurai training, Tornado leaves a trail of devastation and bloody revenge in her wake. Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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A love story and escape movie set in an immigration removal centre. A woman named Isio is caught working without papers. Relocated and trapped inside Hatchworth Removal Centre, she learns that finding love, friendship and freedom sometimes means doing the wrong things. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - First Feature Competition

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With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother. An exploration of the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, set against the backdrop of Almería, Spain, based on the novel by Deborah Levy. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere

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In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Stunted and frustrated by cowboy life in Saskatchewan, Charlotte flees her controlling husband in a 1978 Bronco. Landing uninvited and unannounced at her mother's apartment, 960 Park Avenue, a disgruntled Kit has just three words for her daughter: ”Am I dying?”   Set in New York’s Upper East side and its culture of eccentrics, PARK AVENUE explores the bond between mother – “A great liar” – and daughter – “A terrible one”. Through shared history, unshared truths, and loves lost,  Kit and Charlotte find each other.  Official Selection Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Dublin International Film Festival 2025

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Alan is seemingly kidnapped in the forest by a mysterious man. He manages to escape, but soon begins a surreal ride through different, important moments from his life. It all seems to be connected to the mysterious man. What the hell is this?

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A stone-broke gay actor and a privileged bonehead with a failing business cross paths on a winter night and join forces in a quest around London to find a meaning to their miserable lives. Official Selection Frameline Film Festival 2025

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When an overwhelmed single dad pig moves his piglets into a trailer park, he fears he's failed his family. But soon his kids create a wildly imaginative game, and Dad has a choice between dwell on the past or join them on their adventure. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection LA Shorts International Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Following a fight at his foster home, Christy moves in with his estranged brother Shane, Shane’s partner, Stacey, and their daughter, Darleen. Christy is at a crossroads during his last year of required legal supervision and, after years apart, the brothers are now getting to know one another for the first time. Between joining Shane on painting jobs, Christy makes new friends, including Leona, and is welcomed by the wider community. But he still struggles with the weight of an uncertain future and turbulent past, particularly over the trauma of having lost his mother at a young age. He’s also increasingly resistant to Shane’s insistence that he live with another family, which he sees as a painful rejection. Christy’s success as a barber at the local salon and deepening friendships further pull at him, with his fear and fragility coming to a head after a bust-up with Shane. As the summer bonfire burns, Christy and Shane finally let their walls down and Christy learns to find his own feet within this new community; this new family. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Generation 14plus - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

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When an enigmatic young woman arrives in a remote English village the locals are both intrigued and wary. Their suspicions grow as the woman begins delving into their darkest secrets.