Projects in categories: Fiction

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Mother/Country is a stunningly filmed, intimate experimental documentary. The film charts the director's return journey back to her Mother's house 20 years after the Iranian Revolution. Through the development of fiction with actors, the filmmaker attempts to unravel the events of the past and to find resolution.

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Screwed-up supermodels, closet lesbians, mother-fixated transvestites or simply lonely, everyone needs a friendly ear and that is the chosen profession of Lorraine, a psychotherapist who 'brings everything down to the mother'. But to whom does the therapist talk? As her clients work through their issues Lorraine has to face the reality of her own destiny. Lorraine's devoutly Catholic mother Mary, having brought her children up very strictly, now has Alzheimer's. Mary cannot remember whether she has eaten and has lost control of her bodily functions. Lorraine delegates the problems of her mothers Alzheimer's between her cheque book and her sister, Nina, who has seen her dreams of a singing career and hopes of love and relationships slip by. Stagnation has turned to slow decline as Nina dedicates her life to caring for a woman she despises. The matriarch has become the infant and the relationship of the adult siblings disintegrates into all-out war and misunderstanding.

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Mr Thompson is a very old man, who wakes up every morning to buy a drooping flower from Miss Simmons, the forever-unmarried flower shop lady. She secretly believes this is just an excuse for him to see her but she never does anything about it. Today, however, through some strange turn of fate, they have managed to set themselves a date.

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Only two men still use their Mudhorses to fish on the mudflats at Stolford. Brendan and Adrian Sellick are the last of the Mudhorse Fishermen, sliding across the mud to their nets.

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A boy idolises his absent father and awaits for his return. One day he does return.

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Mona has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil, who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze. Tamsin is rich, spoilt and trying to live a life of seductive decadence.
 
Mona and Tamsin meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship. While Tamsin is tragic and fantastical, Mona is rough and witty. Tamsin is quickly charmed and Mona is hooked. Both want to escape their lives but Phil wants to save them, and everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous Phil back; the brother that she loved, but Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him. As the lives of the three characters converge, a sexually charged struggle between good and evil leads to a dramatic and shocking climax.
 

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In a subterranean cell, a half-starved girl dreams about the baby inside her. In a squalid kitchen, a cook prepares a mystery breakfast. Their stories come together in a gothic birthing room.

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Defending tennis champion Kurt Bruckner is struggling to stay in the quarter finals against the up-and-coming tennis star Jorge Romeo. Bruckner loses his serve and his temper when Jorge inadvertently triggers a courtside competition he didn't expect.

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A young couple bring their newborn daughter home for the first time mired in the usual haze of unbridled adoration. However, as their first night as a family unfolds, tempers fray, the cracks in their relationship start to show and we find out that things aren't quite what they seem.

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Jeremy Frantz is a member of the living dead, the butt of society's narrow-minded prejudice, unable to hold down a job due to his putrid, decomposing body, feared due to his craving for human brains. This mockumentary film documents the many problems Jeremy encounters in his day-to-day death.

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A romantic comedy about two Londoners who meet on a blind date. Too busy to bother getting to know each other, they fantasize a whole relationship - meeting, sex, the split - in only 9 ½ minutes. A satire on modern sexual mores, that twists our expectations of the rom-com genre.

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In desperation, biological clock ticking loudly, Pat breaks into a sperm bank, but ends up finding love with the security guard Ronnie, who's sterile.