Projects in categories: Fiction

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Two couples appear to live in marital bliss until cracks begin to appear in both seemingly steady marriages. The film asks the question 'How well do any of us really know each other' and explores the ideas of love, lust, and family relationships.

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After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption. A fictionalized account of Tutu's struggle with brutal murderer Piet Blomfeld (Eric Bana) over issues of concession and redemption. Adapted from Michael Ashton’s play 'The Archbishop and The Antichrist' Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Debate Strand - World premiere

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Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. Adaptation of the crime novel 'The Snowman' by Jo Nesbø.

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Experimental artist and auteur Andrew Kotting creates a groundbreaking crossover between narrative film and contemporary art piece, based on the award-winning play by Hattie Naylor. The film is inspired by the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. In the recession-ravaged city, Ivan’s human world was dominated by deprivation and violence; his only hope was to turn to feral dogs for company, protection and warmth. Kotting’s spellbinding and utterly original story of survival conjures the streets of Moscow in the 1990s through the eyes of a child, drawing on a range of innovative modes and techniques to produce a montage essay on the state of the world. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - International premiere

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After three years Aaron returns to his old estate upon hearing about the death of his younger brother Tom. Aaron's path soon crosses with old circles and he learns his cousin Ryan owes a debt to Shane Waldron for losing a large stash of drugs. Aaron knows ruthless Shane only too well having worked for him in the past, he takes on Ryan's debt in order to stop Shane from taking their Grandmothers house. Aaron finds himself back in a life of crime in order to raise the money. In his race against the clock and with obstacles in his way he seeks help from his ex girlfriend Danielle and cousin Ryan. Aaron pulls out all the stops, however in doing so he uncovers some dark secrets about his past.

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An intimate portrayal of a family's last day together, set against the backdrop of North London. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - International premiere

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An ensemble slice of life in a diner, where rap lyrics become part of the drama. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - World premiere

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A funny yet touching coming of age football memoir played out to the sights and sounds of Britain in 1970. Adapted from the comic novel by Dave Roberts, it recounts the author’s highs and the lows supporting his beloved team Bromley FC through their worst ever season. Bumping along at the bottom of the bottom non-league division, and effectively the worst football team in Britain, Bromley had reached breaking point. Desperate for a change of fortune, and deluded by his own overactive imagination, Dave hatches a plan that will not only see Bromley grabbing the headlines on national TV, but also have a number of top flight clubs descending upon Hayes Lane to scout Bromley’s dubiously overrated centre forward. Throw into the mix the Bromley Chairman’s daughter Ruby King – who actually hates football, but has taken quite a shine to Dave - and you have a recipe for disaster which has Dave’s football fandom tested to the core. It just goes to show you can't choose who you fall in love with.

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Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and spend a few days discovering one another during the Finnish midsummer. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Love Strand - World premiere

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A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years. Continuing the story in 2049, some 30 years after the events of the 2019-set original Blade Runner film.

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The story of A. A. Milne, the celebrated children’s creator of Winnie the Pooh, and his relationship with his young son, Christopher Robin, who, alongside his toys was the unwitting inspiration for one of the most successful children stories ever created. Set in England between the World Wars, the story focuses on the young Christopher Robin. A painfully lonely little boy, an only child with little to no relationship with his successful socialite parents, who becomes an overnight international star due to the immense success of his father’s books. Christopher possesses great vulnerability and deep pain masked by a wonderful and wild imagination. A touching account of a young boy growing up in the shadow of his own fame.

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A haunting metaphorical take on the physical and mental isolation of the migrant experience. Inspired by the director’s father’s experience of being trapped in Greece’s Ellinikon Airport without a passport in 1977, the film follows a week in the life of a man who has been living in limbo at an airport for a decade. All promises of movement are ultimately met with stasis in this profound evocation of our epoch of desperate migration. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Experimenta Strand - World premiere