Projects in categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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

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After the passing of her mother, an unusual encounter with an elderly neighbour helps Hana to put things into perspective.

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In 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
Official Competition Venice Film Festival, Venice Days 2022
Industry Selects Toronto Film Festival 2022
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2022
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023

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A woman's 30th birthday brings up an unspoken spectre from the past and sparks a confrontation with her brother about the defining event which broke their family and their attempts to come to terms with it.

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Esther and Chioma try to connect as Chioma struggles to fully understand the nuances of Esther’s life as a non-binary person. But through a queering of a Ghanaian naming ceremony, the couple are invited to reconnect in a rhythmic celebration of diasporic Black queer joy.

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A love story, set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

Synopsis

Anamika Fields is the daughter of an Englishman and an Indian woman. Her mother, Sadhana Tripathi, left behind a career as a Hindustani classical vocalist of great promise to marry her father and move to the UK. Her father died when Anamika was ten, leaving Sadhana, who never wanted to be a parent, who never wanted to live in England, to bring up her only daughter.
Twenty-five years later, Sadhana is suffering from the onset of dementia, a situation exacerbated by Sadhana’s reluctance to leave the house she has worked so hard for, Ana’s own precarious financial and professional circumstances, and the cost of specialised care.
Mother and daughter, strangers for over a decade, find themselves thrown together once again after all this time. This has always been a difficult, damaging relationship. Some of it was a by-product of their circumstance. And some of it was absolutely deliberate.
Anamika is forced to become several things, all at once: she is daughter and mother, care-giver and secretary and detective, shield and scalpel. Around her, in the neighbourhood she escaped, Anamika begins to discover a woman she never knew at home, alive in memory, in anecdote, in music she doesn’t understand.

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Charles is attacked and stabbed, leaving him traumatised. Journeying home, he runs into a friend, but his shame of being a victim stops him from reaching out. Finally, Charles makes it safely back home, to the one person he knows will not judge. But Mum isn’t answering the door...