Projects in categories: Fiction

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16-year-old Hugh thinks he’s in a nice, normal, coming-of-age story when a past life’s unsatisfied urges make him want to sleep with his girlfriend’s mum and kill her dad. He finds it all very confusing. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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Charting the rise to stardom of a stand-up comedienne (Maxine Peake) in an all male world during the 1970s and 80s in industrial Northern England. From her violent childhood to her turbulent adult relationships, she uses the raw material of her life experiences to bring comedy to the stage. A stand-up comedienne in an all-male world, the film delivers tragedy and comedy in equal measure. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and arch sceptic has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the ‘original’ TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet. Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three unsolved cases that have shaken Cameron to his core. As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last. Gradually, Goodman unearths a hidden truth more terrifying still, that will pull his life apart. An adaptation of the critically acclaimed stage play 'Ghost Stories'. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Cult Strand - World premiere

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Matty Burton is a middleweight boxing world champion, now coming towards the end of his career, who knows that he must make his money and get out of the game. His aim is to secure a home with his wife Emma, and a future for their baby daughter Mia. His opponent is the brash and controversial Andre Bryte. A big puncher who courts controversy with his outlandish statements. Andre’s intent is to rip the title from Matty, a task that Andre feels is going to be easy. After a titanic battle, Matty returns home to Emma, but moments later collapses on the living room floor from a delayed reaction to a devastating punch. When Matty awakes from the coma, the real fight begins. Suffering from memory loss and with his personality altered, Matty must begin to piece his life back together as his world disintegrates. A powerful and beautiful story about loss and, ultimately, triumph. About identity, and how in life you sometimes have to dig deep into your soul to discover who you really are. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Love Strand - World premiere

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A man seeks happiness and belonging in the company of the largest crowds he can find. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - International premiere

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An abstract portrait of a recently redundant contractor in the declining Scottish oil industry. 'Not Required Back' presents a personal, fragmented relationship set to the crumbling and obtuse oil industry in North East Scotland. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Dare Strand - World premiere

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Victoria Sin unapologetically takes up space when they are in drag, giving spotlight and agency to the daily labours of femininity that are invisible and policed. Commissioned by NOWNESS, this film demonstrates the transformative power of Victoria's drag, positioning Victoria where they belong - in cinematic grandeur, with a gaze that they own. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Tracing the movements of the New Silk Road, this essay-documentary follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe. Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A journey by train somewhere in Britain throughout the thoughts of various passengers in 21st century post-Brexit delving on the history of Britain. There is a train of thought floating around between each passenger during the journey. The train journey is interrupted several times when the train has stopped, and the voice of the train driver is heard through the speakers. During the long and often agonizing and irritating sets of announcements by the train driver the passengers are forced to endure the agony of hearing his voice and what he is saying. The protagonists are taking the shape of puppets and humans and they represent the diverse population of the United Kingdom.

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Only two kinds of people step off a cliff. Those that want to die and those that want to live. JC is a B.A.S.E. jumper, a global playboy who lives his life quite literally on the edge, pursuing man's greatest dream - to fly. When a jump goes wrong, that dream is violently shattered. Faced with the death of his best friend, JC must confront a haunting secret from his past. Drawn towards his friend's grieving lover, Ash, he pushes himself harder than ever before - flying lower, closer, faster and recording every moment. JC's dark descent threatens not only his life but the lives of all those around him. 'BASE' follows a man over the edge and watches him fall. This is his legacy.

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Three candidates are taking part in a TV show, a game of spiritism. The game goes too far and takes over the TV show as the candidates are being transported into a different dimension. Each candidate must introduce the person they want to get in touch with in the "after life". Reverend Piccard, the TV show host is getting in touch with the "after life" and communicates with the candidates the results and in turn they react accordingly. Reaching out to the "after life" is reaching out to the far recesses of oneself and the universe.

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A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as roles are reversed.