Projects in categories: Fiction

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A sexually-frustrated, but god-fearing, young British Muslim resorts to an Islamic 'pleasure marriage' to satisfy his desires - and ends up getting a sleazy Imam to marry him to a prostitute - for one hour.

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Jack is an actor who stars in poor quality porn films. One day on set, whilst struggling to work with a particularly uninterested and uninspiring co-star, he has an epiphany and is confronted by a vision of how very different his life could be. For the first time in his life he takes stock of his surroundings and decides it is time to reassess his values and direction. In a grand gesture he leaves the studio - and the porn industry - behind for good, only fate has different ideas.

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A 'Bollywood' legend comes to London to tread the boards in Shakespeare, but first he must find a leading lady to match his charm and sexual dynamism. He brings with him his (not so) faithful sidekick Ramyou Balti and his spiritual advisor the 'honourable guru Baboo' to help him with the auditions. However Popo Gigi's eloquence and magnetism is such that his rendition of Shakespeare makes the actresses melt in paroxysms of sexual ecstasy, forgetting to act, instead divesting themselves of their clothes. Ramyou's zeal to take over Popo's position leads to a madcap chase through London culminating in a yoga showdown for the title.

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A procession of the Italian Confraternity - an order of the Catholic church that perhaps, to the eyes of traditionally non-Catholic countries, triggers other very different movements. This confusion is dispelled by references, filmed in the same town, same day, to more recognizable aspects of Catholicism. Innocent, but still the power to shock?

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Filters and lines, salty mouths, a family on the edge of the sea.

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A selection of 1950s educational stickers, found in a provincial junkshop twenty years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairytale. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long?

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A young boy in a rural village of Bangladesh ran away from his circumcision ceremony - With all the wonder of a child he walked to a Hindu Temple. He goes to a Red Flower.

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Book titles spell out declarations of love from a shy young woman to a gorgeous reader in the rare books room of the British Library.   Watch on BBC Film Network.

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Eleanor wants to change her life. She needs to. It's evident in her bank balance, haircut and love life. Followed by a ferocious documentary film crew, she aims to capture the story of her attempted life change, to make sense of it, and emerge as a new person, a new character. Her mission gets somewhat messy when a Turkish playboy, an estate agent with motherly guilt and an old friend from University crash into her new life, and the film depicting it, messing both of them up. A story about persona and identity, life in a big city and individualism, the film examines relationship between one’s character, and the 'character' one portrays, playing with the inevitable tension between life and storytelling.

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A couple are returning home on a congested motorway when they are faced with a split-second decision which will either save or destroy them. As a single second becomes more like ten they complete a seemingly impossible manoeuvre and drive clear from the incident in an eerie silence. How could they have escaped when the odds were stacked so much against them? And why do they feel as though they are strangely out of time with everything else?

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A twisted adaptation of the original folk legends of Little Red Riding Hood, from before it was mutilated by the Brothers Grim. Little Red meets the wolf. But he'll live to regret the encounter.

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Two childhood friends are reunited 12 years after being sent to separate foster parents. Together, Raphael and Michael survived a traumatic and tragic night in Rwanda, 1994. Focalised through these two bruised young adults, their lives and the lives of those around them are affected by the stirring of their deep hidden memories. Raphael, after years of denial, must open his heart to his girlfriend, Maria. Whereas Michael needs to exit a lifestyle of drinks, drugs and sex, he too has people who deeply care about him, if only he will let them understand. Red Fruit, based on events, combines a story of character and relationships, with factual accounts of the Rwandan genocide. Archive footage adds, in parts, an almost documentary feel to this piece, which offers not only an understanding of human nature, but also a historical and cultural human tragedy.