Projects in categories: Fiction

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A live action-stopmotion hybrid horror. Fei is the top violinist in her elite youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place, Fei’s anxieties and internalized racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024

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One man’s obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy... and it’s not because he’s eating them. Tom’s all-consuming quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy short about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped potato snacks.
Official Selection Cardiff Animation Festival 2023

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Revolving around two children who meet each other whilst exchanging an apple. Coming from different socio economic backgrounds, the kids develop a feeling of compassion.

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Following a surprisingly successful date, a lonely man faces a race against time to rid his apartment of a dark secret.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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American backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Official Competition

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After returning alone from a failed space mission, a commander is forced to make a decision that will affect all humanity.

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When death comes calling for terminally ill teenager Tuesday, it sparks a chain of events that leads mother and daughter on a wild, strange adventure. Julia Louis-Dreyfus shines as a parent contemplating the unimaginable. She’s perfectly matched by Lola Petticrew’s sparky, heartfelt performance as Tuesday. Together, they create a unique portrait of familial life that’s entirely fantastical, yet deeply rooted in lived emotions. (LFF Brochure)
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - First Feature Competition

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As grief and regret pass through Elliott he imagines moving back to simpler times.
Official Selection Cork International Film Festival 2023

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From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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In the mid-2000s student Oliver Quick is struggling to find his place at Oxford University and finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Opening Night Gala - International premiere

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Adam works nightshifts at a motorway service station and lives a small, restricted and lonely life. Upon hearing that his estranged father, Hassan, has died, Adam finds himself in search of answers. Starting to piece together a complicated image of his father, Adam learns that after leaving the family Hassan had started to believe he had been ‘sent to earth from somewhere far away’.
Initially dismissive, Adam’s mind is soon drawn to the strange episodes he has been having, in which he blacks out and can feel something trying to communicate with him. He thinks about his inability to communicate and connect with people. He thinks about how he’s never fit in. Adam begins to ask himself if his father really was a being from another world, then what does that make him?
Official Selection Venice Critics’ Week 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - First Feature Competition

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In this modern re-imagining of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novella, Dr. Nina Jekyll’s glittering career in the pharmaceutical industry came to an abrupt end and she now lives in seclusion with her demons.
In need of an assistant, Jekyll hires ex-con Rob, straight out of rehab and trying to get back on his feet. It soon becomes clear that there are evil forces at play and Rob’s wits are tested in a game of cat and mouse with the Devil in all its forms.
Official Selection FrightFest 2023 - World premiere