Projects in categories: Fiction

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Ben, a passionate seven year-old boy harbouring a burning desire to fly to the moon; plans his lunar mission amid the flurry of his big sister’s wedding day. An intergalactic voyage through his family sees him battling aliens, saving the princess and trying to seek a little bit of attention.

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A modernization of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven, in which the "Cowboys" are a local amateur soccer team, the "Villagers" are the owners of a local Tandoori restaurant, and the "Bandits" are a gang of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as American Bob.

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Pietro lets us follow him along this slice of adolescence where little things, hidden to the eyes of the ones who can’t observe, can reveal the ironic and subtle beauty of life.

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Reality or your perception of it? A jealous husband, seeking the truth about his wife's infidelity, sets in motion a chain of events with unexpected consequences.

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Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other. Neither brother will admit it but they both know they are not entirely successful in the ‘other half’ of the menu. It takes a daughter – a successful London lawyer, Shalini, marrying a man from a different ethnic background – to reunite them. She is planning her marriage and is determined that they will both attend. Can the men bury the hatchet without actually burying the kitchen knife?

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Late night in a burger bar: Gay and straight, male and female, couples, singles and friends are observed by filmmaker Magnus Mork in this short drama filmed on location in a Cardiff burger bar. Burger is the fourth short film to be produced by the Iris Prize.

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'Dave's Wild Life' is a bittersweet comedy about imagination. It tells the story of Dave, a socially awkward retail assistant who has never given up on his dream to make wildlife documentaries, and transforms every minute of his mundane life in an adventure by imagining undiscovered urban creatures...

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On the run from a marriage in crisis, former war photographer Echo goes looking for her one-time lover and comrade-in-arms, who has retired to obscurity in deepest West Wales. Discovering he has taken his own life, she falls into a passionate love affair with his son, strewing chaos among the small community as she stirs up past betrayals. But raising ghosts is a dangerous game, and sexual abandon also triggers the unravelling of a trauma Echo has long buried for the sake of her children, which now threatens to tear their lives apart. Can Eros bring a healing of trauma, or merely its repetition? What price delight?

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Set in the near future, DRONE follows one morning in the life of military drone operator, played by Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Black Hawk Down).

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Todd (60s) follows young Jessica (7), and her Mum (20s) home from school. He waits until nightfall, before breaking into their house. While her Mum’s busy in the bath, Todd creeps into Jessica’s bedroom, where events take an unexpected turn...

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Commissioned by LUX and Collective Gallery. 'Fib' is the Pictish name for the contemporary Scottish region known as The Kingdom of 'Fife'. It also means a trivial or white lie. Filmed at locations in Fife, the film focuses on two census takers and considers the resulting information and actions as ‘factish’.

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It’s 1972, and Fred Dobbs is preparing for the Schoolboy Boxing Championships. His trainer, who also happens to be his father, thinks he’s the next great white hope. Two years of training have led up to this climatic night. There’s just one problem. Fred can’t box. In the same year Gustavo White, a Cuban boxing legend prepares for the biggest fight of his life at the Munich Olympics. Every last second of his 25 years earth have been leading up to this challenge – he is widely tipped to take gold . He doesn’t. Adrift and alone, the two men’s paths cross almost 40 years later. Fred is an executive at a debt recovery firm who's on his way out; his aggressive younger boss thinks he’s past it and demotes him to the call centre. Gustavo has turned his back on boxing – far from home, with his boxing club bankrupt and repossessed, he scratches a living as a gardener. Fred is forced to participate in a work yuppie boxing event, Gus agrees to train him and both men are thrown back into the boxing fray for what will be the most important fight of their lives.