Projects in categories: Fiction

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An unidentified ghostly entity travels through nocturnal shimmer - A faint and fleeting glow of the night - it is an 'egregore', a collective being formed by unconscious memories. This spectral presence drifts between night towns and children's dreamworlds, navigating fragmented geographies and temporal folds. Inspired by 1980s and 1990s Chinese children's science fiction films like WONDER BOY, the filmmaker reimagines electricity not just as infrastructure, but as a living force - speculating: what if the ghost that once inhabited lightbulbs and circuits is now displaced, scattered across phone screens and the devices of a sleepless global supply chain? In this film, the ghost transforms from a figure of mystical empowerment into a fragmented existence, diffracted, dispersed, and re-coded. Assembling fragmented connections through material and time from light accessory factories in southern China, through the dreams and imagination of children living nearby, and the port town of Grays in eastern England. These peripheral spaces appear to host accidental encounters, yet in reality, they serve as vital nodes in the circulation of low-cost global goods - concealing the shadow infrastructures of globalisation. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2026

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A Drama/Thriller that follows three different characters in a post-apocalyptic world, where danger lurks in unexpected and expected places. Things aren't always how they appear to be.

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Dave’s life is turned upside down after his wife teases him about the identity of the man that he waves at. Unsure who the man is or why he waves, Dave spirals into an existential crisis as he struggles to put the pieces together. Official Selection Sitges Film Festival 2025

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An experimental feature film that dives into the murky waters of memory. The filmmaker's daughter Eden, dressed as Dorothy, walks a path of recollection but she does not walk alone. On her journey she is accompanied by workers from a factory that produces memory. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Becky, an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy, a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish party hosted by Stacy’s father at their country estate. The evening descends slowly into chaos, and the girls’ lives are forever transformed after the unexpected arrival of a modern-day genie who promises to grant their deepest, darkest wishes. A dark comedy set in New York, inspired by Aesop’s fable 'Avaricious and Envious'. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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On the windswept Yorkshire moors, emo teen Helena navigates a turbulent journey of love. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026

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A troubled young man returns home and descends into a spiral of delusions and paranoia claiming to have been abducted by extra-terrestrials. In a desperate race against time, his mother must confront her own traditional beliefs and fight to save her son before he slips further into the dark side of his mind.

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A successful archaeologist but absentee mother travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. Within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful Pagan War Goddess, The Morrigan. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2025 Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025

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Baby dons a fluorescent pink wig and an unflinching smile on her socials, selling an airbrushed life in Europe to entice young Nigerian girls. Behind the filtered posts lies a more harrowing truth: Baby is trapped in a network of sex trafficking, surviving by enforcing the very system that once consumed her. Past rituals inflicted on the girls not only keep their bodies imprisoned, but also their minds, believing their silence and subservience dilutes their cursed lives. But, when someone from Baby's past becomes the newest recruit, Baby's carefully constructed world crumbles. Baby is confronted with guilt, complicity, and the crushing weight of unfulfilled dreams. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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A retro futuristic short film about beauty, identity, and the dangerous pursuit of perfection. Cosmetic enhancement is more extreme than our own. New boobs, butts and faces can be purchased, sewn on and bedazzled to your choosing. And the latest beauty trend? “Sleeping Beauty Makeovers”. A living embalment all performed by a mortician, where teens, for their Sweet 16, jump out of a sparkling coffin instead of a giant cake. Official Selection Fantasia Film Festival 2025

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Following Jaiye, a young Black man, as he navigates a night out that spirals into a nightmare. Despite a prophetic warning from his mother, Jaiye decides to go to a club with his friends. There, he meets Shantel, a white woman who, after a brief encounter, falsely accuses him of rape when he refuses to pay her. The accusation unleashes a torrent of racial prejudice that leads to Jaiye's arrest, social ostracism, and eventual suicide. Through Jaiye’s tragic journey, the film lays bare the corrosive effects of false accusations and racial bias, leaving viewers with a haunting question.

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In 1908 Maurice Maeterlinck’s allegorical masterpiece 'The Blue Bird' premiered in Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre. 114 years later and on the very eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a theatrical troupe stage the play in Kyiv. But all is not what it seems. A deadly game is afoot. A murderous puzzle unfolds.