Projects in categories: Fiction

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Lilly has been seeing Henry for a while now, things are going great and Lilly suspects that tonight Henry will declare his love for her. ...But Henry Hot-Stuff has a far more unsettling confession; he’s going to introduce Lilly to his… ‘Family’.

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Dummy Jim is playfully adapted from the little-known journal 'I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle' (1951) by profoundly deaf cyclist James Duthie, who one day set off alone on his bicycle from a village in Scotland, bound for Morocco. How did he end up in the Arctic Circle?

Led by deaf actor Samuel Dore on an increasingly bizarre 6000 mile journey, this eccentric road movie mixes documentary, fiction and animation. Killed on the road in '65, the film memorializes a quiet, determined maverick whilst offering an honest insight into his community, with village inhabitants emerging as creative participants and performers.

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Echo follows 17-year-old Caroline, as she receives a phone call delivering the tragic news that her dad has been involved in a motorbike accident. Her unexpected reaction reveals there is more to this call then first appears.

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A bipolar and bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

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The whole "zombie thing" has been hyped up so much that everyone thinks it's the end of the world! Of course, where one man sees the dead rising from the grave, another sees opportunity. Q had a plan: drive the robbery getaway van, deliver everyone to the safe house and get paid - a nice, simple, plan. Unfortunately, life is never really that simple, and to top it all off, this is the first time Q has been a getaway driver.

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A drama that brings together the lives of four people during the struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria.

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Amongst the Desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden sink estate in northern England, one man becomes involved into saving what little decency and community life exists. It's the winter of 1974 power cuts and coal strikes cripple the country, which is reduced to a 3 day working week alongside Police 'centralisation'. Everything it seems is falling apart along with the community's only hope and protector, the nearly retired Detective Sergeant Barry Harrigan.

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A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.

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An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.

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Huba (Parasite) is a film about an ailing old man and a young mother. After retiring from the factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine, loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose attachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has nothing to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives intertwine in a web of oppression. The film follows their daily existence and slow decline.

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A tense psychological horror about a young couple's fight to make it though the night - a home invasion movie relocated to the considerably more claustrophobic confines of a car.

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Simon's world is turned upside down when his little girl Katie is abducted during a family day out. After weeks of searching and appeals Katie's lifeless body is found. Simon is devastated, so decides to punish himself by offering a young prostitute with mounting debts, life changing money to end his life.