Projects in categories: Fiction

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In the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, the tradition of worshipping a prepubescent girl as a living goddess is still practised. The extraordinary lives of these girls have caused concern among Nepal's modernisers and human rights workers who argue that the practice is damaging to the girls and causing them to lose out on their childhood. This film is a portrait of three girl goddesses and the debates surrounding their lives.

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When the story of the unspeakable has been told a thousand times, when the images of the unimaginable have been shown a thousand times, when the mind is numb - where do you go from there? You have to start anew. That is where this film begins. On the banks of the River Danube, surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Upper Austria, lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen. Two kilometres from its town centre is a place that attracts busloads of tourists, parties of schoolchildren, people from all over the world. Tour guides come to work here every day while nearby the locals go about their daily lives. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of people from over 30 nations were tortured and murdered. How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in, day out? How does it feel to live here as a local with the dark secrets of the past? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home?

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Iris (Olga Kurylenko) slices off her ring finger while working at a soft-drink factory. This distressing incident prompts her to quit her job; she then moves to a nearby port town, where she takes a position as a laboratory assistant for a tightly wound curator (Marc Barbé). His peculiar line of business involves preserving personal belongings that recall specific memories for his clients; a lock of hair, for example, or a piece of music. Iris drifts into an increasingly fetishistic relationship with her boss while also pining for an ethereal, enigmatic sailor (Stipe Erceg) who shares her hotel room during the hours she is at work.

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Daniel is about to get it all - the girl, the dream, the way out of his poor Buenos Aires neighbourhood. There is only one problem - he has to betray his best friend.

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Marion, now grown up, lives with her oppressive Mum. For Mother's birthday Marion wants to surprise her with a new dressing gown. In a lingerie shop, Marion has a minor accident and she ends up buying some tiny but sexy underwear. Marion believes this to be a nice gift for her mother. As it turns out, Mother doesn't! Marion thinks that the lingerie is the most gorgeous thing she has ever seen and in a quiet revolt, she claims the lingerie for herself.

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Two strangers meet at a bus stop one rainy night. On the surface there is nothing unusual in their meeting. Slowly however Lula finds herself drawn to Alan and curiously returns to the bus stop in the hope of getting to know this stranger. What is it about Alan that draws Lula in? A tender modern love story develops between Lula, a lap-dancer, and Alan, a blind man, as each learns to trust a stranger.  

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Ten years after the mass pit closure of 1984 the miners of the Tower Colliery pooled their severance pay and bought their own pit. They believed they were securing the future of their community. What will happen to the children and grandchildren of the 'last men standing'?

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A journey home is often the most relaxing and sweet. For Oishii Tori; a young woman catching the last train home, the journey becomes one of unsought attention, angst and horror as she finds that sometimes the Last train home may not be the best one to catch after all.

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This short experimental documentary is a layered audio visual look at the past and present of Buffalo's old Hotel Lenox, and the many stories contained within its weathered walls.

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A rest-home nurse pieces together the haunted past of a 100-year-old patient about whom nothing is known but his name and date of birth.

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It seemed like the kind of house where no one asked you any questions. It was old and rambling, in need of a little renovation, certainly. But quiet. Somewhere to begin again. But from the moment he moved in, it didn't feel right to John. He'd been through a lot recently. And there were those who said there had always been something a little strange about him. It's true, he'd always suffered from nightmares, but these were different. Besides, those noises outside his door were definitely real. Or seemed to be. The mad old woman next door had told him to leave, but he hadn't listened. Now it might be too late. The dreams were getting worse, and the doors didn't seem to lead where they should anymore. His new home had a hold on him now, and the other tenants were ready to introduce themselves. Welcome to the house.  

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Set against the backdrop of London's urban music scene, Life and Lyrics follows the journey of a south London DJ, Danny, and his crew as they battle on stage with their north London rivals. Life & Lyrics is also a story of unrequited love as Danny unwittingly falls for a singer from the rival crew, soon forced to realise the dangers and implications involved.