Projects in categories: Fiction

Synopsis

A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - In Competition - World premiere

Synopsis

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - North American premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Official Competition

Synopsis

Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition

Synopsis

Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different -September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is suspended from their school, July is left to fend for herself and begins to assert her own independence - which does not go unnoticed by September. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland, where July finds her bond with September shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand or control - and a series of surreal encounters test the family to their limit.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

Synopsis

A Mumbai-set twisted love story - A fantastical punk comedy, a feminist revenge film, and a revamped vampire movie rolled into one. An original, funny and macabre tale centred on a rebellious, misanthropic character. We follow the trials and tribulations of Uma – a young, newly-married woman – who discovers the realities of married life in a Bombay slum, and whose thirst for vengeance will not be abated.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Midnight Screenings - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Official Selection San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

Synopsis

Two estranged friends reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

Synopsis

Daniel has kept the keys to all the places he ever lived. Lena wants to use them – on the ultimate property porn tour of London, a lost weekend of getting to know each other intimately in other people’s homes. But as Lena unlocks her lover’s past, what began as a risky fantasy becomes a deadly threat.
Official Selection SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection FrightFest 2024

Synopsis

When their genius child CHAD takes a homework assignment a little too far, Mum and Dad suddenly find themselves embroiled in an urgent mission to save the planet.

Synopsis

On the island of Malta, two women become involved in an intense affair, a deadly game of cat and mouse and a string of horrifying murders.