Projects in categories: Fiction

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In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan’s brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin’s savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

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Rome, 476 AD. The Roman Empire is under threat. A mighty force for almost 500 years, at its height Rome’s power spread from Mesopotamia in the east to the Iberian peninsula in the west, from the Rhine and Danube in the north to Egypt in the south. This story follows the events surrounding the historical capture of Romulus Augustus and his imprisonment on the island of Capri.

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When Martha's boyfriend Alex dies after an argument, she's left grief-stricken and pondering whether, if they'd started afresh, the relationship could have worked out differently. A few days later, she's woken from a deep sleep by a late-night television documentary and gets the chance to find out the answer to that very question.

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The Lives of the Saints is a dark and bizarre morality tale. The story unfolds in the cafés, clubs and shops of Green Lanes, where Mr Karva is the boss: a ridiculous yet dangerous man. Othello, his stepson, is the young pretender, palling around with his girlfriend Tina and his weak-willed lackey Emilio. Life revolves around socialising, gambling and trying to scrape a modest living. But that lifestyle is about to be thrown into disarray by an otherworldly, sickly-looking 10-year- old child. Mr Karva's errand boy, Roadrunner, stumbles across the child in the park and offloads the bizarre find into Othello's basement. Thus begins an exhilaratingly strange series of events. It seems that the child is able to grant others their innermost desires... Soon Othello's dreams of limitless wealth are becoming reality. And true to form, his tyrannical stepfather wants to muscle in on the action. It's Paradise on the streets of north London, but family ties and relationships are becoming increasingly strained and as Mr Karva himself says, 'every Paradise got its serpent'. He persuades the unstable Emilio to take the matter into his own hands, and the tale plummets towards its tragic conclusion. The Lives of the Saints is a truly original, modern-day fable, which warns that what we wish for is not always what we need.

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The kelpie is a legendary beast from Scottish mythology that, in the guise of a horse, drags unwary people to their death in the loch. Ewan is a young boy in the Highlands who decides to vanquish the kelpie, in a terrifying encounter that challenges his resolve.

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The story of English medieval King Richard III from cradle to death, seen from a psychodynamic and mythological perspective.

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A feature version of Mozart's classic opera, featuring a newly-adapted libretto by Stephen Fry. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.

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A documentary following a UK film talent search held in 2003, to cast 86 unknowns in a film about East End hardman Lenny McLean. The film follows the progress of the team and it becomes a guide on how not to cast a film.

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A mysterious call, a photograph of a man and a private detective compelled by the one case that has finally got to him. One stark but brilliant day in London, Austin Peterson takes a job from an anonymous client, a demand he knows he should refuse. He uses the feelings of the woman who loves him to get information. But this only raises more questions than it answers, leading Peterson deeper into the maze. He discovers that the man in the photograph committed suicide four years before, and haunted by the unanswered questions, he subjects the dead man's family and friends to his investigation.

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In the magical spirit of Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate comes The Mistress of Spices, a romantic tale of food and love from the team that brought you Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.

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Annie is bringing up her son Charlie in a village in the country on her own. She meets Mack, divorced, fun and sexy. He falls in love with her, meets and charms seven-year-old Charlie, and then is offered a wonderful job in New York. He wants them both to come with him. But Annie has her family, her friends and her well-paid job and Charlie fights his corner as hard as he can - this is a real threat to his familiar life and he isn't going to make it easy for them. He particularly fights her ruling that he's now too old to sneak into her bed at night and must sleep on his own. Who gets to choose? Annie makes the difficult decision, turning down passion and adventure in favour of stability and roots for Charlie, but it's a lot to give up and maybe not what's really best for Charlie either. Mack, not enjoying New York without them, realises that there is possibly another solution. It seems unlikely, but he can try life her way. He's coming back.

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Framton Nuttel, a nervous young gentleman from London, goes to the countryside for a rest cure, only to find he has strayed into a family tragedy with ghostly overtones.