Projects in categories: Fiction

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Zbigniev and Henio have a difficult relationship. Zbigniev is more interested in hoarding items he collects on the black market than playing chess with his father. He is always after more space and more items to fill that space until he finally manages to purchase a precious cupboard on the black market of 1970s Poland, much to his father's annoyance. This is a strange world, where everything seems upside down.  

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Asylum seekers in indefinite detention around the UK leave messages in vain on an abandoned answerphone in the basement of a government ministry.   They are invisible to the outside world; yet exist under a regime of constant surveillance. Their past traumas return in their dreams and erupt in hallucinations that fill them with panic and fear.   With the threat of deportation ever present, they describe their own psychological deterioration as they pass the days in an unlimited confinement that strips their lives of all certainty. Their words trigger dark, visceral images inside the static and void of the phone line.

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127 Hours is the new film from Danny Boyle, the Academy Award® winning director of last year’s Best Picture, 'Slumdog Millionaire'.   127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days, Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued.   Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.

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An afternoon football game unexpectedly turns into a gruesome bloodbath in this revenge tale based on an actual 2007 crime. Militants gun down a group of children playing in an otherwise quiet Baghdad suburb, causing the entire community to turn on itself. Akram, the brother of one young victim, seeks vengeance.

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Expressed via abstraction and aggressive editing, 4 chapters of unspeakable portrays an instability in self-image and emotions alongside impulsive behaviour, via changes in appearance of the artist and the shape of the frame.

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4.3.2.1 is a gripping, slick film from multi award winning British actor/director Noel Clarke ('Kidulthood', 'Adulthood') that follows three days in the lives of four very different girls.   Intricately woven together each individual story of these four friends unknowingly connects them to a major diamond heist - 4 Girls, 3 Days, 2 Cities, 1 Heist.

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A family portrait goes horribly wrong as jealousy and suspicion bubble to the surface under the photographer's relentless gaze. As the session reaches a disturbing conclusion, it's clear that this truly will be a day to remember.

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During the 17th of August 1992 two ordinary men, Garry and Colin, had an extraordinary encounter that propelled them into the unfamiliar realm of the paranormal. A70 is the disturbing yet compelling true story of what happened to Garry and Colin that fateful night and the terrifying events that unfolded over the following months. Based on the reported facts, A70 recounts what at first appears to be a brief encounter with a strange object on a Scottish road, but nightmares and strange visions slowly reveal that something far more sinister occurred during what to them seemed only a few seconds. As the men search for answers their world is ultimately torn apart by what they discovered.

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In the non too distant future, society seems to be devouring itself in a vacuum of materialistic consumer greed manifesting itself in a disease like plague turning ordinary people into savage, zombie like, sub-humans.   Jacob, a young aspiring journalist together with his girlfriend Laura, a young attractive self assured, yet vain, it-girl go on the trail of the Tempter, a figure-head in the media reported to be responsible for the decline of the social order.   As Jacob's search for a story takes them out of their comfortable, frappucino filled world and into the seedy underbelly of Britain’s backstreets, low lifes and eventually the decaying Eden Estate, cracks begin to appear in their co-dependant relationship driving a rift between them.   At a cross-roads fighting for not only his relationship, sanity and survival, Jacob is left with three pivotal questions;   Who is The Tempter?   Does the Tempter really exist?   And if so, is the Tempter truly responsible for the impending armaggedon, or is there a more darker, more sinister, more simple truth to it all?

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The descendants of the victims of the Soviet's secret nuclear test-site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, know having a healthy child is not guaranteed. Deformed children are often abandoned in orphanages. Doctors and scientists blame inherited genetic effects from the radiation down the generations. Now the state response is a proposed scheme to 'clean out' those with bad genes' by preventing them from getting pregnant. The film follows the city maternity doctor as he enthusiastically pilots the 'genetic passport' scheme. In doing so, two 'patients' who live on the test-site (one has facial deformities) are determined to exercise their right to have a child despite the city medical establishment's grim genetic prognosis for their unborn child's future.

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'I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely'. The fascinating visually complex internal world of audio-visual synaesthesia is discussed, argued over, scientifically dissected and celebrated in this beautifully sensitive animated documentary.

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The film follows an extraordinary group of young and inspiring musicians, AnDa Union, on a journey through the distant Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. In the vibrant capital of Hohhot the group have made a life around performing and creating traditional music for a contemporary audience. The rituals of their daily lives have adapted to the modern city and indeed modern living has shaped their music in new and exciting ways. From the city, AnDa Union embark on an adventure to the wild and varied landscapes of the Inner Mongolian grasslands and mountains, where we discover the secrets of their haunting and beautiful music, and a rapidly changing environment.