Projects in categories: Fiction

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Ravi and Paul, two friends from Leicester, end up attending a gay party in the small Indian town of Shimoga, upon an invitation of Ravi's Parsee email-pal Jeh from Mumbai. A genteel dreamer Ravi instantly falls in love with Mani - a dark and handsome local working man.

Ravi and Paul also meet an older male couple, Murthy and Anna, now in their sixties. Murthy has lived in the UK to avoid marriage. When he returns to attend his mother's funeral, his lover Anna (a married man by then) convinces him to stay back. After his wife's death, Anna decides to join Murthy and they run a hotel. Both Ravi and Paul are surprised to meet the older same-sex couple.

Although Ravi can't let go of his newfound love, Mani cannot overcome the vast gap that exists between them. Mani is under constant pressure to get married to a woman. When Ravi asks Mani to accompany him to the UK, Mani shows very little willingness. Ravi seeks Murthy and Anna's help, but the couple hide behind words of wisdom and express inability to bring Ravi and Mani together. Tension brews between Ravi and Paul due to sexually charged Mani and the situation highlights some nasty cracks in their friendship. Mani throws in a surprise at the farewell meeting that Ravi's asked for.

Interspersed with flashes of semi-surreal situations - presented through exciting dream sequences - Yours Emotionally! unfolds a brightly painted canvas that defies stereotypes and explores contrasting values within Indian and Western gay sub-cultures.
 

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Zoltan is a retiring human cannonball at a Victorian circus and freak show. With dwindling audiences and appreciation for his act, he decides to make his last performance, special.

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A surreal look at the remnants of Socialist East Germany. Told through a double of the ex-president Erich Honecker, two ex-border guards (one east, one west) who photographed each other over the fence for 18 years and a man with a dream to rebuild his own version of the GDR in a bleak East German town with 70% unemployment.

A complex insight into the confused aftermath of a vanished country.

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Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, Deep Water is the stunning true story of Donald Crowhurst, a free-thinking electronics inventor who enters the most daring nautical race ever, the very first Sunday Times Golden Globe solo, non-stop, round-the-world yacht race.
 
Crowhurst - driven by a desire to prove to the world that with the help of his revolutionary invention, an on-board computer, one could sail the seas effortlessly - readies his trimaran to set sail by the late summer deadline.
 
As the race progresses, Crowhurst's reports of his positions at sea put him as the clear leader on elapsed time. Headline after headline is being printed - not just in Britain but across the world. Crowhurst is fast becoming the darling of the media, hailed as a nautical wonder.
 
But as the world waits on tenterhooks for this extraordinary man to cross the finishing line and sail into port to a hero's welcome,  the jaw-dropping truth is revealed.

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Confetti is a sharp and affectionate comedy that charts the journey of three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of ‘Most Original Wedding of the Year’.

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Following London's bid for the Olympic Games, sport is once again gaining popularity here, producing newly energised competitors.
In this brief 'documentary' we are introduced to Colin Sprockett - one such committed athlete, as he prepares for the UK National Championships in that most difficult of modern sports.
Sudoku.

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A decommissioned revolver is brought back into circulation when Adam Campbell purchases it online. When the revolver is stolen it triggers a chain of events that will come back to haunt him.

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Gregg is a shy supermarket shelf-stacker with a stutter.

Hoping to impress sexy checkout girl Sarah, he joins her drama club and lands a small part in their next play.

His determination to overcome his affliction and perfect his performance gets him noticed and leads to an unforgettable first night.

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A solitary woman and a lonely man. Over the years, they have grown apart, unable to talk. In the loneliness of the night, at work, she finds comfort in a mysterious voice, at the other end of a telephone line, a man whose face she'll never see or will she?

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Harmony and chaos meet in a mechanism of rythms and lights. The birth and death of a surreal environment in which familiar game-like rules drive the action's tightly synchronised evolution. A single oscillating dot becomes an abstract musical machine which plays itself using glowing orbs before exploding into particles which collapse together as the cycle completes.

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From 12th-century China, to 21st-century London, a parable of life.
In Ten Bulls, Kim Bour has taken the Chinese master Kakuan's illustrated fable of the herdsman in search of the elusive bull, and presented it as modern epic of mankind's struggle for understanding.

Trapped by modern life, we sway aimlessly, seeking purpose and true satisfaction. Ten Bulls tracks one man's search for this truth.
Through rich sound design and flowing imagery, Kim Bour leads us through an almost meditative illustration of this timeless quest. Rich and mystical, yet controlled, Ten Bulls melds the harmony of Zen philosophy and film-making: the simplicity that we see all around us - a petal in a stream, a perfect circle - all blend in a modern meditation.
To find, we must seek. The unexamined life is worthless. 'I find the world in me'.
 

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A year after the premature death of his young wife, from cancer, Ben Wright is struggling to come to terms with his loss. On the anniversary of her death, he is visited by a familiar face from the past who helps him to address his predicament.