Projects in categories: Fiction

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The real-life episodes contributing to a devastating hate crime are powerfully told in one shot. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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A multimedia feature film about gentrification in Brixton, London, incorporating fiction, documentary, performance art, photography and animation. Nina, is a young stifled artist who returns to her community after a long absence - she is soon painted as a symbol of gentrification. As she struggles with her own complicity, she embarks on a mission to create a piece of art that can bring her community together. Real life testimonies from people directly affected by gentrification in Brixton are woven alongside the story of Nina's journey, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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In 1919, a tea lady eavesdrops on a top secret government meeting called to solve the latest, gravest problem facing the British Empire... A satirical comedy which wryly suggests that today’s obsession with female appearance was borne out of one official government meeting. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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When a middle aged couple decide to attend the local swingers party, in the hope to save their frozen marriage, they are disappointed to see they are the only attendees, worse yet the hosts are a couple of stuck up liberals who have a opposed their planning permission. What follows is a night of brutal honesty and small town politics. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

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Stanley finds himself in prison for a crime that he believes that he didn’t commit. After many years in solitary confinement he begins to talk to his comedy heroes from the past as each one tries to help him remember what he has done. We follow Stanley through his journey of hallucinations as he faces up to his unusual upbringing and his parents’ bizarre religious beliefs. Stanley becomes desperate to learn the truth about what happened to his daughter and what lead to having this ordinary life he has already dreamed of. Award-winning actor Timothy Spall plays Stanley and all the characters in his hallucinations; from the flamboyant Noel Coward to the grotesque Max Wall to the ukulele king George Formby, to Egor in a Transylvanian castle.

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Charlie Brooker’s TV anthology series 'Black Mirror' taps into the collective unease within the modern world. Each stand-alone episode is a sharp and suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia. Without questioning it, technology has transformed all aspects of people’s lives; in every home, on every desk, in every palm there is a plasma screen, a monitor, a smartphone — a Black Mirror reflecting our 21st Century existence back at us. LFF presents three episodes from the forthcoming third season of Black Mirror: Nosedive, San Junipero and Shut Up and Dance Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - LFF Connects Television - Events Strand

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Jasmine is a troubled teenager on the run who is taken in by Shane, who works at a travelling fairground. An unorthodox bond develops. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Short Film Competition - Love Strand

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On a journey back to her roots, Mia must face her fears. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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A feature length film exploring themes of identity, culture and the construction of history. Shot on 35mm film in various Californian deserts that provide a stage in which to re-enact the negotiations of an archaeologist from Cairo with a members of tribe who guard ancient culture hidden in tombs lost in the desert. The scenario for the film was adapted from the 1969 Egyptian film 'A Night of Counting the Years' directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, creating a layered story that echoes from ancient Egypt to the diversity of desert ecology and recent archaeological digs for lost Hollywood film sets. Working in collaboration with the musician and composer Tom Challenger a new choral composition was created and recorded for the film, drawing on traditional and modern acoustic techniques to reflect the shifting sands of the desert landscapes.

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Stuck in a bubble, a girl dreams of a sunset.

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Escorting the fiery young Annie Blake and her gang to the sheriff in Blood Gulch, bounty hunter Dalton discovers the remains of a horrific massacre and rescues its sole survivor, a preacher. Before long the group are fighting for their lives against a zombie horde that walks the desert plains eating all flesh in their path. And as the preacher’s secret unravels, Dalton realizes what he’ll have to do to prevent his wife being resurrected as one of the living dead.

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Three estranged siblings reunite after the death of their father. Amidst secrets and recriminations, is there a hope for reconciliation? Starring Lia Williams, Marianne Oldham and Justin Salinger.