Projects in categories: Fiction

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Nazir Ali Khan is an immigrant Indian professor at a university in Birmingham who lives with his wife and two children Saira, 17 and Asif, 14. Nazir shares a great relationship with his children and indulges their love for all things English, but has taken great pains to keep the link to home strong. When his beloved daughter is found in an illicit relationship, Nazir is suddenly on the brink of a tough decision to make. Should he save face? Or save his daughter?

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Le Donk is an improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows and starring Paddy Considine. It is based on a character Paddy has created called Donk: a failed drummer and now a roadie.  Fifteen years ago Donk seemed to have it all, but now his life is shit. His ex-partner is pregnant with his child and much to his dislike living with her new boyfriend. He is taking UK rapper Scor-zay-zee with him on a road trip that he hopes will change their lives.

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The myth of Ernest Hemingway frames this journey from a rifle club in Britain to the savannah of southern Africa. Filmmaker Joseph Matthews has never fired a gun before, but makes a surprising discovery about his own attitude to shooting that leads him into the disturbing world of big game trophy hunting. From Hemingway to present day the film examines whether there is anything we can learn about masculinity from these men who seek their thrills from the power a gun gives to its bearer.

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Helen fears for her life. She knows that her husband Jim will kill her if she stays. One night, following another vicious attack, she finds the courage to leave.  

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US set psychological thriller that follows the journey of an AWOL American Black Ops soldier after a botched mission in Eastern Europe. Holed up in a Brooklyn motel room, he is torn between retribution and personal salvation as he mentally unravels. When the walls close in, his story may be all he can leave behind.

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Five art students are asked by their teacher to write an imaginary letter to dead artist Mark Rothko revealing their innermost creative drives. But sometimes this fragile part of our subconscious proves too difficult to share.

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In a peaceful suburb of Berlin, a man embarks upon an unusual illicit affair.

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A high octane cautionary tale about the universal themes of identity, integrity and chasing the dream. A 20-something rites of passage set in post industrial cosmopolitan Britain, it’s a fast moving modern indie with the comedy of Swimming With Sharks and Jerry Maguire, mixed with the sociological drama of Closer and Sideways.

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Set in today's London, in a modern Indian-Bengali doctors family. Manju's sudden death, throws Sanjay into rediscovering his relationship and the lives of his daughters. Grappling with devastating loss, missing the mediating role of his wife, Sanjay faces new crisis with the modern lives of each daughter, specially with Dia the youngest declaring her love for a Muslim boy - Imtiaz. Sanjay recollects his childhood and the trauma of Hindu Muslim riots during partition of Bengal. Finally he gets to know that his elder daughter is not his own. He reconciles as he realises nothing is perfect. The shadow of Shakespeare's King Lear bears on this contemporary, free adaptation and works as a sub-text with Sanjay and Dia within the contours of Lear and Cordelia.

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On the day of her mother's funeral, April confronts her father about the sins of his past - and her present.

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A 5 year old Scottish boy talks to his father about how a group of little dinosaurs can stop a big dinosaur from picking on them.

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Little Matador  is a feature length documentary about children bullfighters in Mexico. Kids as young as eight are trained to kill bulls ten times their weight. The film follows three children who are fighting not just the bull but their own demons; Michelito is ten. The adored child of a matador Dad, Michelito has killed over two hundred bulls. ‘Picasso was born to paint, Mozart to make music – and Michelito to be a matador,’ says Dad. Can Michelito fulfil his father’s dream to become the youngest matador in history? Joel is nine. Neglected by his mum and step-father, he finds paternal love in the ring. Matador Ismael becomes Joel’s surrogate father and guardian angel. But if Ismael moves to Spain for his own career, what will happen to Joel? Andrea is twelve. She started bullfighting when her father moved to America. Andrea has disowned her dad – who has found a new woman - and vows to save her mum from poverty by becoming a superstar bullfighter. But will Andrea ever get over her terrible nerves every time she enters the ring? Little Matador is an extraordinary testimony to the lengths these kids will go to realise their dream.