Projects in categories: Fiction

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In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream... but above all to dance and have fun. Jimmy's Hall celebrates the spirit of these free-thinkers.

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Based on a true story of Dave who thrives on drugs and violence in London's East End. When his actions kill his best friend, Tariq, Dave is propelled into unknown feelings of shame and remorse. He finds Islam and a new peace but his old life comes back to taunt him.

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Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.

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Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter JMW Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father and loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea.

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It is 1952. Bill Rowan is eighteen years old, dreaming his life away at the family's riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years' conscription in the British Army. His idyll is shattered by the harsh realities of boot camp. He meets Percy, an amoral prankster; they are rivals and antagonists, but they gradually forge a deep friendship in the claustrophobic environment of a closed, prison-like training camp. The pressure is briefly relieved by excursions into the outside world, where they both fall in love. Finally, Bill is confronted with the shattered lives of wounded boys returning from Korea.

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In a post-apocalyptic military world, a General, a renegade Scientist, and a Traitor wrestle to control the latest bio-weapon with the power to change the world.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate, bi-racial daughter of a Royal Navy admiral in 18th-century Britain.

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A journalist is married to a suspended air traffic controller who cannot understand how a serious flight safety incident has occurred on his shift. When he is re-instated without an investigation, her award-winning investigative journalistic abilities trigger a greater interest in the incident. As her investigation progresses, she discovers the incredible facts passengers know nothing about, a trail of evidence that dates back to 1954 confirming her greatest fears: exposure to contaminated air on aircraft is killing people and compromising flight safety. The stakes are high and she is willing to risk everything on the fact she is right. The aviation industry must respond, but how far will they go? ** The film is generally based around the ongoing serious health and flight safety issues, which are occurring around the world on commercial aircraft, as a consequence of exposure to contaminated air.

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In 1915, a unique event occurs that threatens to undermine both the Germans and the British on the Western Front. General Sir Charles Munro and his generals face an unprecedented dilemma that will taken some very delicate handling.

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A bereaved headmaster fights a crocodile.

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In the middle of the night, Anna is terrified someone is prowling around her house. Unlike her other friends, James still believes that it’s not her imagination playing games.

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In the Greek mountains, a young boy gives a girl a gift he knows will mean the world to her.