Projects in categories: Fiction

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A portrait of multi-cultural London following a group of friends who grew up together on an estate in North-West (NW) London. Central to the story are Natalie and Leah, whose lives have taken them in different directions. Natalie’s wealth and ambition have set her apart from the friends and family she grew up with – and she finds herself asking not only who she really is, but where she belongs. In an area where wealth and poverty are only streets apart, life is fragile – as Natalie and Leah are about to find out. Based on Zadie Smith's best-selling novel.

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The adventures of writer and magizoologist Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards, seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy.

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Elizabeth Sloane, an ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation. Sloane is brilliant but ruthless. Notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her career at risk.

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The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat. Based on the international best-selling novel written by Bowen with Garry Jenkins.

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Abe, a reclusive, mentally ill, homeless man struggles as he tries to make sense of his life on the streets of Los Angeles.

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BRITISH WINTERS is a British comedy drama about a self-pitying barman who believes his life is in a state of crisis.

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A three-hander for two actors. Fergus wants his wife back. Jonah wants his mum back. But what does Harriet want? An emotional ghost story about what death makes us do to the people we love most.

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An errant pastor is looking to acquire lands that the Lord promised him. Following the word of God, saints are sometimes bedevilled.

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The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there’s a spring in everybody’s step. It’s a perfect day until Ella steps outside.

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A bitter film director is forced to explain why her latest film, 'She's So Cold', reflects worrying ideas about relationships and men. Reluctant to cooperate, she hijacks the interview and propagates her own twisted perspective on life.

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A comedy about Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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Based on the 1940 South African trial of a traditional herbalist accused of 'untraditional behaviour, the film explores the ideological and commercial confrontation between two different yet intertwining medicinal traditions and their uses of plants, with slippages across gender and race.