Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young man's calculated reassessment of his infamous, and ultimately disastrous, childhood correspondence with an American television star. A decade after the death of the TV star, the young man, now an actor himself reminisces the written correspondence he shared with the star, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2018 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Winner, Short Cuts Award, Best International Short Film Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - International Short Film Programme BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Film

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A mysterious young British man (Dev Patel) journeys across Pakistan and India. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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By the 1920s Virginia Woolf has reached the apex of modern world literature with her landmark novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', but nothing seems to soothe the darkness that plagues her. She is powerless over the mood swings that alternately lift her to manic creative heights and then crush her under suffocating melancholia, driving her deeper into seclusion... Poems and letters of admiration from Vita Sackville-West lead to a courtship that is hardly concealed from their respective husbands. Soon, Virginia is enthralled by Vita. She is everything Virginia is not – extroverted, direct, in possession of a strongly magnetic personality and, as Virginia notes, a pair of the most "amazing legs". Focusing on the period in 1927-8 during which Woolf wrote 'Orlando', the novel their relationship inspired, 'Vita & Virginia' is the long-gestating feature adaptation of actor and writer Dame Eileen Atkins’ play of the same name. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Germany 1944: 15-year old Leyna, daughter of a white German mother and a black African father meets Lutz, a member of the Hitler Youth ­- compulsory for all Aryan boys since 1936. They are bound by the realisation of the horrors being committed against the Jews, as Leyna tries to avoid the fate of black Germans at the time. Can she find an ally in Lutz, himself battling the fate laid before him? This is a coming of age story set in the most brutal of times. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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A mother daughter relationship in crisis, one hitting the menopause, and no use to anyone! And an 18-year-old leaving home bursting with independence. What's the point in having a kid!!

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Nestled between a beautiful lake and the Himalayas, Ashmina, 13, lives with her family at the outskirts of Pokhara Nepal, paragliding capital of the world. The remote and traditional town is also a busy tourist destination where the locals are profoundly affected by the swarms of tourists who visit it daily. Forced to skip school, Ashmina helps her family make ends meet by working at the landing field, packing the parachutes of foreign pilots in return of small change. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Two young men escape to an imaginary land where reality and fantasy blend together.

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Successful writer, Martin, is struggling after the death of his wife and child in a car crash. But when he meets grieving mother, Lily at a bereavement group, his life changes and he starts to question the circumstances of the accident. Who is the mysterious character in the photographs and why can’t he shake the feeling that he’s being played?

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Awake or asleep? Alive or dead? What lies between? And who, or what, is that voice blurring lines between reality and fantastical nightmare?

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Unable to tell his family the truth about his sexuality, Rahmi lives a double life. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law. Based on the true story of two women who created the persona of a boy-wonder author JT LeRoy, fooling the literary community, the fashion world, and the Hollywood elite for six years before the hoax was finally revealed. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere