Projects in categories: Fiction

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Fourteen women who never normally meet (seven Palestinian, seven Israeli), living in a conflict zone, come together to fight for the common goal of losing weight.

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The film set in London is about the relationship between Kami, a 40 year old businessman whose father has just passed away, and Agha, the Mullah or Priest who conducts the burial ceremony. The story shows how Agha, an opium addict with a penchant for Persian Sufi poetry, takes Kami, who is distraught by the death of his father, under his wings. During their weekly meetings Agha not only exposes Kami to the beautiful poetry of Rumi and Hafiz but to the euphoric pleasures of opium, the preferred drug of Iranians since time immemorial.

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A teenage girl on community service has to take a grumpy old man to the supermarket. This is a love song in a minor key.

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Situated in the Mediterranean Sea off the east coast of mainland Spain, Ibiza forms part of the Balaeric Islands. It was first inhabited by the Phoenicians 3000 years ago. The most recent invaders were the Hippies in the 1960s and 70’s. They made Ibiza their spiritual home and many settled on this bewitched rock. But what has become of them? Witness the unconventional lifestyles, through amusing, insightful and surreal mini adventures, of 67-year-old fashion designer/hippie Queen Mora and 73-year-old psychoanalyst/hippie Andrux. Two of the last Ibiza hippies.

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A love story about fare dodgers set on a passenger ferry. Liz is doing it for kicks, John is doing it because he's run away from home and doesn't have any money. Both want to get to the big city. The only thing that stands between them is the ferryman.

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Chloe arrives on her Father’s doorstep after splitting with her boyfriend. In her emotionally vulnerable state Chloe becomes closer to her father, perhaps a little closer than comfortable.

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Sofia remembers a bedtime story her father told her.

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Two brothers share the same Algerian father but have different mothers. Alan's mother is Scottish whilst Samir's mother is also North African. Samir is fluent in Arabic but Alan cannot speak the language. They are united by the fact they share the same father that has been absent from both their lives. They have both grown up in west London but on distinctly different sides of the tracks. A night out in London reveals hidden tensions between them.

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In a quaint mysterious village, Jake’s parents have gone away on holiday. Leaving Jake and best friend Kevin to start digging a pond. As the faceless gardener begins his lazy days work. Jake and Kevin discover a scratched and damaged Victorian box that looks like its been buried for centuries. Soon Jake realises wishes that they didn’t find this horror of hell. Now something larks in the shadows of the house, it appears to transform humans to aliens. Which is only the start of Jake’s and Kevin’s horror. Now multiplying into eggs that can crawl. Jake and Kevin have no option but to kill these hellish creatures, before they kill them. With what ever way they can! It’s now a race to escape not only the house, but the village. Throw out all your nerve! Prepare for blood! And prepare to watch this terrorising horror! Dare you watch it! 'They’re coming to get you!'  

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Fear, love, paranoia, suffocation, need, isolation and attachment. A relationship between husband and wife, affected by mental illness.

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A pianist's art - and life - fall out of balance. Memory, trauma and creativity. Triple-flashback visual poem to music, without dialogue.

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Almost Adult is the story of two teenage girls who come from different countries and speak different languages but still become each other's family. The two girls meet at a bus station in Birmingham after arriving in the UK as unaccompanied minors in search of asylum. Mamie, the elder of the two, takes Shiku under her wing. In doing so, she resolves to be the younger girl's big sister. The girls try to adjust to their new lives. Many things seem strange and alarming to them. Shiku in particular is having real difficulty fitting in with her new family. She is suffering from the after affects of the loss of her family back home and the traumatic things that happened to her on her journey to the UK. No one can properly understand what she has been through. No one but Mamie.