Projects in categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Dawn is invisible to those around her in a world that favours youth. She fights back to be seen in the most unexpected of ways.

Synopsis

In 1969, as rising media tycoon acquires the daily newspaper "The Sun," his partnership with editor Larry Lamb turns the paper into Britain's most influential tabloid. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2026 - Opening Gala Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026

Synopsis

Burdened by traditions and her mother’s silence, a girl tries to sift through the desert sand to find her identity card in order to enroll in the Beijing Opera academy.

Synopsis

In a near future in rural Britain, Mustafa cares for his deaf sister, Amna, spending their days together in their hidden, isolated home. One morning, anti-immigration vigilantes descend, tearing them apart and leaving each to navigate fear, loss, and the quiet brutality of a world shaped by far-right policies. Amna escapes and searches for her brother, moving through the fields with determination, only to witness a horrific event. A meditation on family, the unbreakable ties between siblings, and the devastating cycles of violence that fracture lives. Against the backdrop of systemic oppression, the film explores how hate divides families, how love endures, and how the human heart persists even in the face of destruction.

Synopsis

Angela is living a life devoted to everyone but herself. Caught between revolving identities, she has stepped into roles that generations of women before her have occupied. Disconnected from her husband, Malcolm, and struggling to articulate her dissatisfaction, she leaves home the night before her family is set to attend a wedding, and finds herself confronted by the silence that has stretched between them.

Synopsis

A stoic pharmacist faces a tumultuous 11-hour shift at his demanding job. While he successfully juggles an assorted conveyor-belt of patient’s problems, he struggles in desperate slithers of time to fight off the weight of his own festering issues.

Synopsis

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Circe along the way.

Synopsis

Leo is 8. His best friend is a giant shark that his dad, an artist, built in their roof. Leo escapes to fantasy worlds to process his peculiar reality until a spirited au pair challenges him to embrace the wild, wonderful mess of real life. Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

Synopsis

In a rainy and nocturnal London, we follow Miles: a nighthawk, a loner and a voyeuristic photographer. Under the pseudonym 'Rain Catcher', he made a name for himself on social media for his stolen snapshots: morbid and unforgiving portraits of the city's troubled humanity. Soon Miles notices a mysterious woman appearing in his pictures. This shady stalker is following him everywhere, and soon begins sabotaging his life, catapulting him in a Dantesque journey. Every cornerstone of Miles' existence gradually starts to crumble: his online persona, his career, his own life. Aided by his magnetic, gung-ho neighbour Yumi, Miles will embark on a relentless investigation to crack the puzzle leading to his chaser's identity and motive, clue after clue, one snapshot after another, before his world collapses. Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026 - Proxima Competition - World premiere

Synopsis

Drifting addict Cass becomes embroiled in a toxic agreement with controlling agoraphobic Roya to wear a hidden-camera and spy on her estranged daughter, only to expose Cass to a repressed loss of her own.

Synopsis

As Kev prepares to leave his remote village for the promise of the big city, he begins to sense that the locals aren’t willing to let him go. A string of unsettling encounters with the town’s ageing residents draws him into a hidden underworld where tradition is sacred and escape is forbidden. Before long, Kev is trapped in a grotesque, ritualistic game of indulgence, where survival depends on how much he’s willing to consume. With no way out but to play along, Kev must confront the true power at the heart of the village - the Butcher.

Synopsis

After unexpectedly losing her husband, Yehudit has no choice but to start over. In the process, she finds that abrupt and painful detours can lead to bright roads. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2026 - World premiere