Projects in categories: Fiction

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10 year old Stanley lives an isolated life on a farm with his mother, Minnie. One summer day, two strangers arrive on the property. Though a cause for initial apprehension, the visit may bring something Stanley longs for - connection.

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It's being called the breakup album of the year. Running late to a studio livestream, Jamie gets a voice note from his ex - the first communication they've had in months. She's heard the album. She has some thoughts.

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A lone survivor wakes up stranded on a rocky, empty coastline. With a mysterious beacon guiding her, she searches the landscape for food and shelter, looking for signs of civilization, people, anything.

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As Cassie and Matthew come to the end of a bitter divorce proceeding, Cassie produces a forgotten letter from their younger selves suggesting advice in the event of a future separation. The letter specifies a list of items to help them recreate memories from the past, so that they "can let go of each other with love and not with fear". Matthew reluctantly agrees to do the first item on the list - to meet Cassie in the park where they were first alone together, 20 years before. This meeting starts a chain reaction of events, a release of memories and a confrontation with a challenging past - as the couple start to understand who they became in their marriage. Over the next four intense days, Cassie and Matthew find themselves painfully drawn back together but continue to struggle at what it means to reconnect.

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In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, a non-conformist, forgotten artist persuades her psychiatric nurse to take her on a road trip back to where her story began – but with so many deviations into the past along the way, will they ever make it?

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Based on extensive historical research, the film is narrated by an imagined, enigmatic auteur whose fraught position as both a spy and gay man in the mid–20th century is troubled by sex, secrecy, politics and imperialism.

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A psychological thriller that explores the complexity of loss, demonstrated by Tina's battle through the stages of grief in the aftermath of her friend’s suicide.

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In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Nasser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help them find the owner.

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In a dystopian near future, The Gateway offers the only chance of survival for teenagers, Zero and Serger, and their younger sister, Wake - who they are determined to save from the violence of The City. But, when Zero’s life is threatened, she flees taking her reluctant younger sister with her. Their brother, Serger, is forced to chase them down - and when he does, each is faced with the choice; to save only one.

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Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Critic's Week Competition - World premiere

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A psychological drama set in a rain-swept Irish fishing village, GOD'S CREATURES focuses on a mother who lies to protect her son and the devastating impact that choice has on her community, her family and herself.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere

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In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2022 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere