Projects in categories: Fiction

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Two young, straight, Premier League footballers share a hotel room the night before a key match. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. The emotional impact of this ‘pass’ plays out through the next ten years of their lives – a decade of success and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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Heather and Sarah Ann were inseparable when they were little. They told each other every secret. They knew they would be best friends forever... But then they grew up. Now Heather is forced to return to her hometown when her father becomes ill. The cynical urbanite hates everything about the place she grew up – especially her bubbly childhood friend Sarah Ann. But Sarah Ann thinks they can be best friends again, and insists that Heather film the video for her dream wedding to a local policeman. Heather is convinced that the two young women have nothing in common – but what is going on between Sarah Ann and that handsome married man Heather once loved? And is Heather’s devil-may-care father really having an affair with Sarah Ann’s uptight mother, the wife of the Police Chief? As the big day approaches Heather finds that no one is quite what they seem – especially the old friend she thought she knew better than anyone. A rollicking comedy-drama about secrets and weddings – and best friends forever.

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Fifteen–year-old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However when a real monster shows up in his Midwestern hometown he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Cult Strand

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A stranger, Tasya, arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his apartment, his life, even his dreams. He can't summon the courage to confront Tasya and she becomes progressively more comfortable and controlling. Can Damir find it in himself to struggle out of this trap and regain control of his life, or will Tasya take him over completely, leaving no trace of Damir in the world? SXSW Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computer game and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that he must confront his own difficult memories if he is to get his daughter back. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Dare Strand

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Tehran, 1988. Shideh lives amid the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war. Accused of subversion and blacklisted from medical college, she is in a state of malaise. Furthermore, her husband is at war, leaving her alone to protect their young daughter, Dorsa. Shortly after a missile hits their apartment building but fails to explode, Dorsa falls ill and her behaviour becomes increasingly disturbed. Searching for answers, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbour that the cursed, unexploded missile might have brought in djinns - malevolent spirits that travel on the wind. Convinced that a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess Dorsa, Shideh finds she has no choice but to confront it if she is to save her daughter.

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After her mother’s suicide, Helen, a young teacher, travels to Varanasi to deliver a letter to her mother’s twin sister Agatha. Agatha runs a missionary for low caste orphan children. When Helen and Agatha meet, it’s the first time Agatha’s seen her for 25 years. Helen learns of a serial killing spree which has claimed the lives of four low caste girls, all burnt to death in and around city of fires. The killer seeks to claim the lives of seven girls to free himself and his loved one from the cycle of life and death and attain moksha. Arjun Das, a CBI officer from New Delhi is sent to Varanasi to find the killer. For Arjun it’s a return to his home and a city he left behind. As the Hindu festival of fire and colour ‘Holi’ approaches the killer prepares to claim the greatest sacrifice and seek deliverance.

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In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, former Secret Service agent and Presidential guard, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.

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Life’s a stage. And so is social media. When Claire checks her phone, her friends quite literally ‘pop up’ to tell her how good their lives are.

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ALREADY DEAD is a short documentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living "life" to the fullest. But have we truly come to accept Zombies?

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A powerful business executive returns home to his family and their lavish lakehouse for the weekend. Within hours of his return a cataclysmic ‘event’ takes place out there in the landscape. The world beyond their garden is now deserted. The skies above them – threatening and toxic.