Projects in categories: Fiction

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Based on the critically acclaimed stage play by Glyn Maxwell, The Best Man tells the story of Bailey, the best man at his oldest friend's wedding. In his search for anecdotes to embellish his speech, Bailey has stumbled across a secret so shocking that it change everything. And now it's time for his speech. Just what does he know? How much will he reveal? Moving between the fraught wedding reception and the darkest moments from their past, The Best Man is a tale of love and cheating - with a sting.  

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A chance encounter with Kevin, the father of her child, leads Sharon to an uncomfortable truth about the nature of their relationship.

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A casual jog in the Yorkshire countryside suddenly becomes a wild sprint for his life when, attempting to evade her ravenous guard dog, Jack desperately takes a bicycle from a cantankerous old crone. Set in the medieval city of York, England, The Bike Thief unfolds in a series of farcical conflicts that spiral out of control as a result of Jack's original theft. Featuring a riveting international cast and stunning photography, this hilarious thriller is guaranteed to set everyone's wheels spinning.  

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The Boat People is a psychological thriller. Jared is taken to the coast by his new girlfriend, Alice. They stay in the seaside cottage she has owed all her life with her sister, Cleo. As soon as he gets there, Jared begins to have haunting dreams of a distant exotic land. The dreams excite Alice. Even more weird is that when Cleo unexpectedly turns up, she somehow seems to know what happens in the dreams without him telling her. Gradually Jared realises that the sisters are using his dreams to uncover a long-buried secret from their childhood, when they lived in Vietnam and their parents were brutally murdered. But who was the murderer? And why does Jared begin to feel that his life is now threatened? As the landscape and the house reveal their secrets, Jared becomes more and more drawn into the twisted world of The Boat People. First they take over his dreams, then they take over his mind.  

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A day in the life of a traditional shoemaker - seen throughout the process of making a pair of shoes, then off for a walk in the countryside.

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A young businessman, John Maxted, checks into a hotel for a weekend conference. Upon entering his room, he discovers a button on his wall. Due to Maxted's lonely and introverted personality and with the increasing pressures from the oddball characters surrounding him, the button begins to play on his mind and he slowly sinks into a deep state of paranoia. Maxted's fascination with the button becomes an obsession, but his profound mental insecurities deter him from pressing it.

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A kind of madness unites the artist and the art-lover. Two such madmen are Krzysztof Veneer and his greatest fan. An obsessive classical concert-goer (Steve Furst from the Orange ads and Little Britain) wants to be the first clapper at the end of every symphony and sonata. But when he inflicts the clap incessentaly on his pianist idol (David Bamber) the tormented virtuoso decides to fight back.

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'The Corner Shop, part of the British landscape for more than forty years, is in steep decline'. A film crew spend a day documenting an episode in the life of an ageing Asian shopkeeper. As the day unfolds, something is revealed, which may hold the key as to why 'The Corner Shop' is fast approaching its imminent end.

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A nervous youth awaits a rendezvous in a derelict urban landscape. But his meeting is with someone entirely unexpected and reveals that his world is surprisingly different from what we imagined The Drop offers us a poignant glimpse of a post-apocalyptic moment.

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Eleven-year-old twin brothers Francis and Peter are invited to the birthday party of a school friend, the climax of which is always a game of hide-and-seek in the dark. Francis, however, has a paralysing fear of the dark, and will do anything not to attend. Adapted from Graham Greene's short story The End Of The Party.

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Los Angeles, cira 1920s, a little immigrant girl finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. The man has ulterior motives, and the fanciful story he tells masks his profound depression. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale. Once she’s hooked, he’s able to persuade the child to provide him with pills so he can 'sleep'. But in her innocence and unassuming love for him, the little girl changes the man’s will, giving him hope and a deep affection for her.

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A group of young tourists charter a boat in the South Pacific Ocean for the holiday of a lifetime. They unwittingly stumble upon an ancient evil that demands vengeance at any cost. In the middle of the ocean and with no help coming and no where to run, they discover that 'payment is due'.