Projects in categories: Fiction

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A young boy after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealized dead father, is confronted with a brutish man who claims to be his real father. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Following a small group of kids at during the doc-workers strike in Liverpool in the 1990s. Official Selection Semaine de la critique du Festival de Cannes/ Cannes Critics's Week 2025 - World premiere BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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Desperate to understand her family’s past in Japan before her birth, Niki probes her mother, Etsuko, about their time in Nagasaki. Told through flashbacks, Etsuko recounts the tale of a friend she knew long ago... Spanning the two timelines, the film is a moving and hopeful account of the generational impact of war and tragedy on one family. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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In a forgotten patch of countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the brutality of another person carrying your heart forever. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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After seventy years with her best friend, Eleanor moves to New York City for a fresh start. Making new friends at ninety proves difficult. Longing for connection, she befriends a 19-year-old student. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere

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When a young couple spends a day in the countryside, suppressed tensions bubble to the surface, as they struggle to communicate on questions of power and responsibility. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Cinefondation - World premiere

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Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Midnight Screenings - World premiere

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A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their own way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and succeed in maintaining the family unity. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her "devil hand”. Official Selection Cannes Critics' Week 2025 - World premiere

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Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Out of Competition - World premiere

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Two kid brothers Remi and Akin get to spend a gift of a day with their estranged father Folarin. They go on a voyage into Lagos observing the colossal city for the first time and the hoops their father must deal with to provide. All this is happening in the backdrop of a huge 1993 presidential election result which calls into question his ability to get them home. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - First Feature Competition

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Colin, a weedy wallflower, is letting life pass him by. That is until Ray, the impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club, takes him on as his submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way. But as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another? Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026

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Following acclaimed stage actress Nora and her younger sister Agnes as their eccentric and charismatic father Gustav suddenly steps back into their lives after a long absence. Once a renowned film director, Gustav looks to make his comeback and make amends with Nora by offering her the lead role in his next film. But Nora wants nothing to do with her father or his film. An intimate and poignant exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025