Projects in categories: Fiction

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In an alternate world where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.
Official Selection Tampere Film Festival 2023

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When a boy is pushed by his father to steal a rare peregrine egg, he finds strength in the natural world to stand up to his father, and experiences his first sense of freedom.

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In a fading small town, Lisa goes to work at a ‘vertical farm’ - the kind of new science that she blames for pushing traditional farms, like her family’s, out of business. Dalia and her successful, Muslim family own this new farm - and they struggle to find a welcoming place in the local community. Weeks before Dalia’s wedding, a heated encounter between the two young women exposes deep prejudices and results in Lisa losing her job. But it’s only the start of an unexpected connection between two women from the same town, but very different worlds. As the pair enjoy a growing friendship and attraction, they will have to break the barriers of race, religion and class that keep them apart, or risk settling for the lives their families have laid out for them.

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Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Midnight - World premiere

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Traversing grief, hope, first love and home, PRAY is a portrait of brotherhood that looks at what we will do for the people we love, how we find joy in the midst of overwhelming despair, and how community can lift us up.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2023

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After an embarrassing encounter at the supermarket, Ramin, who is on the spectrum, is forced to confront the one thing he can’t seem to fix: himself.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2023

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Dom and Yas’ paths collide at the least opportune time: when Dom is ugly-crying in a toilet stall, steeling himself for an awkward meal with his ex, who cheated on him with his best friend. Nursing her own breakup wounds, freewheeling Yas decides to jump headfirst into the fray to lessen the sting as Dom’s date. What follows is a day of impulsive and joyous mayhem, as these two 20-something Londoners roam Peckham through karaoke bars and playgrounds, all the while inching toward the possibility of opening their hearts again.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Premieres - World premiere

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Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere
Sundance Film Festival 2023 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Winner

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On the opening night of a group exhibition, Nora, a young female artist is hacked by an ominous troll. What follows is a descent into sexual trauma, as she and her friend Kyra search for the perpetrator in a night-long odyssey.

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With news of a fast approaching apocalypse, Lara travels through the city. She makes a decision that will change her life, albeit for a brief moment.

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In reverence to the British paintings that watch over her from inside a desolate stately home, a young Pakistani girl aspires to become the perfect upper-class lady.

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Annag is lost and alone, fighting for her sanity. Awake and dreaming, she is drawn to the shoreline, yearning for the deep coastal waters. By day she feels the eyes of The Herring Girls on her trying to hide her slipping grasp of reality. Do they know something she doesn’t?