Projects in categories: Fiction

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As a young black girl falls out of love with her natural hair, a mother - through a poem - works to inspire self love and acceptance in her daughter, against a world that whispers otherwise.

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Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025

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In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over leading him to discover that often times danger is closer by. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI Flare 2025 Official Selection Encounters Film Festival 2025 Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival 2025 - Winner

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A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior that transformed their relationship. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Two teenage girls have to confront what they've left behind, before they can come to terms with where they're going. 15-year-olds Doe and Muna are going on a trip. Two girls from a dead-end seaside town, they board the train to the airport excitedly. Quiet, watchful Doe hasn’t gone anywhere since arriving in the UK the age of 3 as a refugee at from Somalia. Badass Muna, of Pakistani heritage, is the dominant force... These girls are not going on holiday, but to Istanbul, to be met by a chaperone who will take them to the Syrian border to start a new life. Disaster strikes in Istanbul when their chaperone doesn’t show. Out of their depth, they formulate a new plan to continue their journey alone. Experiencing different slices of life in the city, their resolve, faith and friendship are tested. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

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1973. Married couple, Daphne and Darcy Davenport, are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. Here, a strange child enters their lives. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Set in 1723 London, where Thomas Neville has to hide out in a molly house - essentially the proto-queer clubs of Georgian Britain - after being caught cruising in the public toilets. Once inside, though, Thomas meets an underground community preparing for a night of revelry. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Charles, a strange lottery winner who lives alone on a secluded island, tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite singer, Herb McGwyer, to perform at a special, private event. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025

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Struggling to process the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, a young father’s hold on reality crumbles as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. What begins as a terrifying haunting, evolves into a battle of wills between a grieving family and their uninvited, unpredictable house-guest and tormentor; a man-like Crow, seemingly brought to life from the pages of Dad’s work as an illustrator. Based on the award-winning novel 'Grief Is the Thing With Feathers' by Max Porter. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat - and into the past - they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025

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Aiden, a widowed robotics expert channels the grief of losing his ten year-old son into creating ‘Robin’, a fully functioning robotic doll. It finally seems he has found someone to keep him company in his lofty mansion. Aiden’s estranged nephew and his fiancé unexpectedly return to the manor hoping to patch up the family's rocky past before their big day. The loved-up pair are instantly creeped out by the lonely man’s staggeringly realistic creation. A series of terrifying events leave the young couple suspecting there's a more sinister side to Robin that even Aiden is aware of.

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Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy Pakistani takeaway. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Short Film Competition Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026 BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Nomination - Best British Short Film