Projects in categories: Fiction

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Little Voices is a film with children who are displaced and victims of violence in Colombia. This film is driven by real children's stories, and drawings which are animated using computer animation.  The result is a unique and powerful hybrid of documentary and computer animation.

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The men of the London Irish are made up of people from all walks of life: Accountants, Solicitors, Builders, Chefs - Disparate, different individuals who come together regularly to become a cohesive fighting force constantly honing their skills. Here they go on a shooting weekend at the Ranges completing the Annual Personnal weapons test and also practicing on the ardous Individual battle kills range. London Irish at the Ranges is a short documentary produced and directed by Tipu Sultan.

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When your bonfire gets stolen by a rival gang there is only one thing to do. Head through no man's land and steal it back.

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A lost property store manager finds temptation gets the better of him when the answer to his problems is handed in at the store.

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Ed Dowie is blessed with an egalitarian spirit, though his attempts at optimism and his enjoyment of life are marred by kidney failure. For Ed this creates a constant cycle of treatment and recovery very much like the tidal movements of the sea. This portrait focuses on Ed's character and reflections whilst also showing Ed in his element, creating music.

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Hull 1955; Philip Larkin arrives at Hull University to take up the post of Head Librarian. His love affair with Monica Jones is already five years old and, with the publication of The Less Deceived, he is about to be catapulted into the public eye. But while Monica enjoys the reflected glory of their relationship, Larkin is terrified of the extra commitment she wants. In response, he begins a secret affair with one of his library staff, Maeve Brennan. While this relationship draws form Larkin some of his most romantic insights, it flounders on Maeve's Catholic faith; she doesn't believe in sex before marriage. And marriage is something Larkin cannot face.   Over the next fifteen years Larkin juggles Maeve and Monica, all the time playing faithful son to his mother Eva, while writing some of his greatest poems. But with Eva's death and the ending of his relationship with Maeve, the poems dry up. Not even a brief affair with his loyal secretary Betty provides any inspiration. Having sacrificed his life for his writing, Larkin is left with nothing. Until, haunted by impending death and his failed talent, Larkin in old age returns to his soul mate Monica.

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Finding Mr. Right is apparently as difficult at eight as it is at eighty. Love Takes is a portrait of love in the 21st century, detailing the places that love takes us and leaves us as we fall in and out of love over a lifetime. Combining documentary DV footage with digital design the film explores what we talk about when we talk about love.

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An enigmatic traveller seeks shelter from a religious hermit after an accident. The hermit appears mad or dangerous, but the traveller may not be what he appears.

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Lula Fantastic is a stylish tale of a pop princess who lets celebrity go to her head.

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When Belfast boys Mo Chara and his friends Scud Murphy and Cerebral Palsy come into a young greyhound as payment for a favour done for hooky bookie J.P. McCallion, it's a dream come true. Owning their own dog is surely going to end a run of bad luck that's lasted since they placed their very first bets. But Cerebus is a greyhound with a mind of his own and until they have worked out the not-so-complex doggy psychology behind what makes him run, they're mired in a losing streak that's a mile wide. Deep in debt to the ruthless McCallion, sworn enemies of gypsies they have ripped off, for the boys everything's at stake at the most important event in the dog-racing calendar - the Clonmel meet - if only they and c]Cerbeus can get there in one piece.   A comedy of underdogs coming good without the aid of wisdom, guile or any natural or unnatural advantage whatsoever, proving that if you're not smart enough to recognise when you're beaten, you might actually end up winning.

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An intimate portrait of a psychiatric patient tormented by the relentless clanging of the hospital bell.

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Man Dancin' is a ganster movie with a difference. After being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, Jimmy Kerrigan returns to his family home in a tough Glaswegian estate.   It's only been a few years but the Glasgow that he knew has changed, and more importantly to those who knew him, so has Jimmy Kerrigan - dramatically. Sparks fly when the new hits the old and the events that follow will soon change Kerrigan, his friends and his world forever.