Projects in categories: Fiction

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Inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life or death essentials begin to run out, the family must learn how to be resourceful to survive and outsmart who - or what - is keeping them trapped.

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A bored woman goes to extreme lengths to feel brand new. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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Burdened by traditions and her mother’s silence, a girl tries to sift through the desert sand to find her identity card in order to enroll in the Beijing Opera academy.

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In the very near future, Harry, a third-generation London cabbie, struggles to retain his place in a fast-changing world. A hard-hitting drama starring Jay Simpson (Black Mirror, Pistol, Chernobyl), Gemma Dyllen (The Death of Bunny Munro) and Anna-Maria Everett (Killing Eve). A Brother Film production in association with Panavision, Kodak, TenThree and Electric Theatre Collective.

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A group of friends play a cursed truth or dare card game. When they play it to the extreme, they go past the limit, with devastating consequences.

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When Andre, a successful business man, unexpectedly reunites with his homeless childhood friend Robert, buried secrets from their boarding school days force him to confront the trauma he's tried to forget.

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Based on true events, GERONTO is a short LGBTQ+ coming-of-age drama about longing, connection, and self-discovery. Set over the course of one night in the late 2000s, the story follows Younger, a man in his 20s, who meets Older, a man in his 60s, at a discreet London pub. What begins as a tender and intimate connection soon fractures under the weight of a painful misunderstanding in a nearby hotel room, forcing both men to confront their deepest fears. GERONTO sheds a light on the often-taboo subject of gerontophilia, and challenges societal boundaries around age and desire. Delicate yet daring, the film offers a quietly radical portrait of queer intimacy across generations. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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A woman's New Year's Eve plans are thrown off course in a taut and tense thriller.

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A volatile chess prodigy struggling with anger management attempts to navigate a world that feels hostile, dismissive, and chaotic. While chess offers him control and identity, real life repeatedly provokes his buried rage. After fleeting moments of connection and hope, a final altercation spirals into irreversible violence, forcing him to confront the devastating cost of losing control.

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In a near future in rural Britain, Mustafa cares for his deaf sister, Amna, spending their days together in their hidden, isolated home. One morning, anti-immigration vigilantes descend, tearing them apart and leaving each to navigate fear, loss, and the quiet brutality of a world shaped by far-right policies. Amna escapes and searches for her brother, moving through the fields with determination, only to witness a horrific event. A meditation on family, the unbreakable ties between siblings, and the devastating cycles of violence that fracture lives. Against the backdrop of systemic oppression, the film explores how hate divides families, how love endures, and how the human heart persists even in the face of destruction.

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Krish is throwing the perfect birthday party for his girlfriend, Tanya. But while preparations begin and friends arrive, something is about to go terribly wrong.

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Bento Moura is running out of options. Broke, exhausted and under pressure from his estranged family, he takes covert work for a shadowy compliance firm spying on London’s remote workforce. Armed with a Prius and a long lens, Bento hunts for “productivity crimes”: an ad creative skipping agency calls, a project manager dancing in his underwear and a coder choosing the gym over a client status meeting. But as he sinks deeper into the absurdity of corporate surveillance, a routine audit pushes him from casual stalking to breaking into a worker’s home and forces him to decide how far he is willing to go to remain employable. HollyShorts Film Festival 2026