Projects in categories: Fiction

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Neil Clarke, a schoolteacher, suddenly discovers he has magical powers. In fact, with the wave of his hand, he can make absolutely anything happen. From wiping out a particularly disruptive class (and then bringing them back to life), to turning his best mate into the kind of man women would not only die for, but would worship to the ends of the earth and back. The only snag is getting the words right and, of course, knowing what he really wants.

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The true story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first-ever person to successfully swim the English Channel - which he did in splendid form in 1875- equipped only with his moustache, doses of Brandy and a wire wool swimsuit.

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Soffia realizes that if you can't beat them, well then you better join them. In her quest to be accepted by the popular girls in her class, Soffia finds herself sacrificing her true friendships and morals. Whoever said that teenage girls were innocent - well, they were so wrong. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand

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In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

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'The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers' [the complete title of this piece] is partially inspired by Paul Bowles’ story 'A Distant Episode', and charts a mysterious transformation from observational making-of to inventive adaptation, shot against a staggering Moroccan landscape. "Ben Rivers explores the illusion of filmmaking in Morocco... The Moroccan Sahara is littered with the legacy of films shot in its dramatic vistas: abandoned sets that reveal the artifice of filmmaking and trigger our recollection of the half-imagined spaces of familiar films from decades past." (Artangel) Locarno Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Three white hipsters- Jamie, Finn and Neil- plan an Afrobeats club night. As Jamie and Finn fixate on making at least one black person attend, Neil questions just how racist this might be.

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Bricks is a short film about the clash between a city broker (Blake Ritson) and the tough builder (Jason Flemyng) he hires to renovate his wine cellar.

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An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

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In this delightfully demented homage to the golden days of horror movies, Supervillain (a perfect Terence Harvey) leads us on a thrilling guided tour of the ways of evil. Dare you find out what sort of villain you would be?

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In the city of London, Alex Powell is a successful banker running away from his past. When an injured young woman arrives at his front door his world spirals to the complex depths of their secret childhood together.

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Unable to fly the nest due to the economic crisis that grips Spain, a penniless, young couple have trouble consummating their fledgling relationship in their parents’ homes. As they become increasingly desperate to make love and with no money to afford a hotel, they are forced to look to popular public hotspots commonly used for sex among young people, known by the locals as “pikaderos”. However, things are never as easy as they seem, and their relationship is quickly tested as they try to break free from the shackles of a crumbling economy.

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A city PR girl goes on the run, accused of leaking information from the military supply company where she works. Pursued by ex-soldiers, she hides with her brother, a protester living in a squat, who she had dismissed as a loser. When she realises he is a member of the Redistributors, a group famous for hacking tax evader’s accounts and passing money to the poor, she asks to meet with the group’s charismatic leader, Michael Manning, hoping he can bring down her former employer before they get to her.