Projects in categories: Fiction

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First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance. Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Out of Competition

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In post-WW II Finland, homosexuals were officially classified as mentally ill, weak and feminine. Conducting any homosexual act or producing homosexual material was illegal. Gay men were beaten by the police, thrown in jail like criminals and often sent to asylums for “treatment”. In the middle of it all was one man, quietly using his talent in an inhospitable societal environment, fantasizing about a different world through the tip of an artist’s pen: Touko Laaksonen, to be iconically known across the globe by his nom de guerre, Tom of Finland. Tom of Finland began secretly creating a completely new variety of homoerotic art for gay men. Proud, healthy and über-masculine. His work was sexually liberated. Totally shameless. Gleefully and aggressively trouncing the norm. His art fanned the flames of a revolution, emboldening a new generation of homosexuals to stand up and celebrate what they were: Men.

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A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - Midnight - World premiere

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Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friends Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall, to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings. Ted tracks down the perpetrator of the phenomena, fifteen year old David Logan, whose parents believe has healing hands. Unaware that David is using some rather unorthodox methods, the Logans are set on sharing their son’s gift with the world. Ted sets out to debunk the miracles and save a young man from a lifetime of embarrassment.

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“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.” Tony Webster is retired. Looking back over his quiet life — a career, a marriage, a daughter, an amicable divorce — he's certain that at the very least he never tried to hurt anyone. Memories, though, can be misleading as an unexpected and explosive letter from the days of his careless youth is about to prove… Adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Sense of an Ending'.

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A re-imagining of Shakespeare's magical fairy tale 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in a contemporary setting, under a full moon and during a Caribbean Festival in Barbados. Comedy and chaos ensue when mischievous fairies tamper with the wedding plans of returning Nationals Theseus and Hippolyta, four young lovers, and a group of fishermen keen to perform their potentially prize-winning play. Themes of Love, multi cultural weddings, mischief, fairy magic, fantasy comedy and Caribbean folklore are explored in a stunning tropical setting.

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Professor Philip Stone is an eminent neuroscientist - now in his seventies - who whilst being interviewed for a highbrow television programme falls down a rabbit hole of his own memory and sees for the first time a traumatic and long suppressed event from his childhood in its entirety.

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When Charlotte - a beautiful , broke student - is offered a job cat-sitting for an eccentric couple over a long weekend, at £200 per night, she can't believe her luck...but there is something else in the house with her....

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Growing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by society. A more than tough childhood left behind, Chris meets dream woman Julie, and life lightens, but the growing feeling that theirs is a life half lived haunts Chris.

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In a bustling metropolis of millions, young Ash is lost. He wants to be the big man but reality hasn’t quite delivered. Then a chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision which begins a chain reaction of events.

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A manipulative stranger named Joan Bittenpear enlists the help of two wayward scoundrels in discovering the disturbing truth about her missing fiancé.

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A looping GIF has an existential crisis. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Dare Strand