Projects in categories: Fiction

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London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, The Verve rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox takes the concept of "killer tunes" to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.
Official selection Toronto International Film Festival 2015

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The true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy. Together, the Kray Twins take over the city. But as their reign expands, power-struggles, fierce madness, and a woman diminishes their bond; the weak link that could cause their empire to collapse.
A classic crime thriller from Academy Award® winner Brian Helgeland, taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - International premiere

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London-set noir thriler based on Martin Amis' novel - Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
Official Selection Toronto 2015

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They say opposites attract. Milly (Toni Collette) is the woman who has everything: a successful career, a devoted husband, and two gorgeous kids. Her best friend is Jess (Drew Barrymore): Jess works in a community garden, lives in a boathouse with her boyfriend Jago, and desperately wants a baby. Friends since childhood, Jess and Milly can’t remember a time they didn’t share everything – secrets, clothes, even boyfriends; their differences are the glue that binds them together. That is until Milly is hit with life-changing news and needs Jess’s support more than ever. As Jess tries to balance her own life with being there for Milly it is only a matter of time before the pressure on their friendship becomes intolerable.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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In a bustling village near Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian girl becomes aware of strange new feelings that are both discomfiting and exciting. As her burgeoning sexuality begins to colour her experience of the world, it threatens to bring her into conflict with societal expectations.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts

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In a rural Indian village called Ujhaas, four ordinary women begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude, and question the status quo that favours men and ostracizes women for being educated and opinionated.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Set in the early 20th century, 'Sunset Song' begins with the suicide attempt of a poverty stricken woman in Scotland, broken by repeated childbirths, who kills herself and poisons her twin babies. The story follows one of the woman’s surviving daughters, Chris Guthrie, who must manage the farm after her mother’s death, and, after her father, who has had a stroke, becomes bedridden. But when love comes to Chris, she must send her man off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war. How can we bear time, or subdue nature? We cannot. We can only endure...
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A young boy in Gaza, Mohammad Assaf, dreams of singing in the Cairo Opera House with his sister and best friend, Nour. One day, Nour collapses and is rushed to the hospital where it is discovered that she needs a kidney transplant. Nour leaves Mohammad with a dying wish that someday, he will sing in Cairo. Escaping from Gaza to Egypt against unbelievable odds, Assaf makes the journey of a lifetime.
Directed by Academy Award® nominee Hany Abu-Assad and based on the incredible true story of Mohammad Assaf, the Gazan wedding singer who became a worldwide sensation after winning 'Arab Idol' in 2013.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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The true story of the relationship between renowned writer Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he forged a bond with his mentor, the eccentric professor GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations

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During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Gala Presentations

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Kate is pregnant. Theresa is pregnant and moving in to the apartment below, with her partner. When the two women meet one spring morning, a special bond forms, developing into an intimate friendship as they move closer to the births of their babies. Until tragedy strikes. And changes everything. In the most violent and shocking way.
With echoes of Hitchcock and Polanski, a terrifying psychological thriller of love, betrayal and revenge, bringing one woman’s personal nightmares vividly to life, amidst the affluent loneliness of the modern city.
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere