Projects in categories: Fiction

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This film takes you into different Kenyan communities and explores the tradition of circumcision and also love, marriage, families, rebellion and change. We discover girls struggling with their culture and their loyalty to their parents. Will they be strong enough to break with tradition? And if they do, will they be accepted back into their communities, or will they become outcasts? Fardhosa, a woman doctor, takes us into the Somali community where she attempts to open people's minds to try safer and more humane medical practices. Simalo, a young Masai girl, goes home to confront her mother for having married her off to an old man against her will. And finally, sixteen young girls challenge their parents and take the painful decision to take them to court to stop them circumcising them. This has historic implications for their whole culture. The film shows ancient traditions beginning to be questioned by a new generation that doesn't want to suffer as their mothers have done.

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Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples' cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers.

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Ten environmental activists board an oil rig to protest against its reported destruction. They arrive in the evening and prepare to broadcast to the outside world. But things are not what they expect. They are surprised to find no maintenance crew. Then one of the group is bitten by a rat and later is found dead. And that night, another group member is exposed as a spy who has infiltrated the group. Struggling to make sense of it all, other - more sinister - deaths occur. They find a strange rune circle marked on a workshop floor and, discovering a hidden video camera, they learn that the rig's workforce met with similar deaths and were wiped out. An evil entity was apparently summoned in an occult session. Using living bodies, it transfers from person to person, leaving the host dead, and can only be controlled by the rune circle. Battling for survival, the group fragments and the evil exploits this, killing again and moving on. As dawn approaches, only four are left alive. Can they work out who is possessed and escape to safety? Can they prevent the evil from being released upon an unsuspecting world? A shocking twist provides unexpected answers.

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Emily works in a funeral parlour. Lonely and clinically shy, her hopeless yearning for love is inþamed by an old man's passionate goodbye to his dead wife. Then fate strikes.

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Following an innocent game of strip poker in a derelict hut fourteen-year-old Penny struggles with her encroaching sexuality and the blurring of boundaries between childhood games and adult fantasies.  

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The Engagement is a complex and fascinating love story set in contemporary London. Dario is a mysterious motorbike courier who falls in love with a girl who is engaged to be married, but he cannot escape his horrifying experiences as a Serb paramilitary in the Bosnian war. The film is directed by John Duigan (Flirting) from his own screenplay which sticks to his familiar theme of exploring an unusual and difficult relationship. The film stars Emma Pierson and Croatian acting sensation Dragan Micanovic who stars in Black Sheep with Anthony Hopkins. The very intimate and intense nature of this story dictated the way John choose to make this film, and he has shot it with a small film crew using a state of the art digital beta video camera.

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Commercial pilot, Denis Hopkins (Jonny Lee Miller), has everything to live for. His beautiful wife, Valerie, with their first born on the way, a fulfilling and lucrative job as a commercial pilot and an idyllic house by the sea. A vicious break-in, which results in the murder of his pregnant wife, expunges all that. Denis turns his back on what's left of his perfect lifestyle and vows to take revenge on Ricky Barnes, the man responsible for the death of Valerie. He reinvents himself as a petty criminal, gets caught smashing up a police car and is duly sentenced. Having infiltrated the prison system, Denis goes about his revenge mission with studied, obsessive commitment. But to get to Barnes, Denis must reach Sullen Voe, the highest security prison in the land and to do that he must become a Category A escape risk. Through a series of daring though intentionally flawed escapes, his risk status rises as he is demoted down through the system. With the help of Ron (Gary Lewis), Denis breaks out of the formidable Ulathorn, in order to be caught and sent down to Sullen Voe. Now, only revenge will set the escapist free. Fast paced and raw, The Escapist is an intelligent and highly charged thriller about an ordinary man pushed beyond his limits, and his instinctive fight to uphold the power of love.

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Gaynor and Rory have been together for three years. Rory is about to end the relationship and Gaynor knows it. He has been seeing someone else.

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'Come and get yer grins - one pound each, three for a fiver. Come on, it's Christmas, we all wanna be smiling at Christmas'. A black comedy about consumerism.

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Charlie is a successful young illustrator of children's books. She and her boyfriend Simon have decided to flee the big city to live a dream life in their newly acquired cottage in the country. Charlie arrives at the cottage to find it far from ready and not a builder in sight. When Simon is called away on business she faces the daunting prospect of spending several nights alone in the woods. Disturbed by the presence of a mysterious man who stalks the grounds of her cottage, she is relieved when her new neighbour Lisa arrives to welcome her into the fold. Charlie's dream of an idyllic life in the country is shattered by vivid nightmares of a terrible and haunting secret, a mystery hidden deep in the woods that only she can unravel. Charlie is about to learn that living in the woods is no walk in the park.

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After the death of their father, Madeleine invites her sister Dinah to stay in her elegant London home. Madeleine's husband, Rickie, is now effectively head of the family, and a man of persuasive charm and sophistication. Efforts to find a husband for the free-spirited Dinah seem to pay off at last, but having announced her engagement, Dinah is secretly told by Rickie to call it off. The reason remains unspoken - as they are both aware of a profound mutual attraction. So begins a wild affair, as Rickie and Dinah's illicit passion spirals into deception, offering ecstasy and despair in equal measure and, finally, as the sisters attempt a reconciliation, an insight into the heart's capacity for forgiveness.

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A vain hypnotherapist discovers that a difficult client is also a journalist. When he finally succeeds in hypno-tising her, he suggests that she write a glowing article about him. He goes too far and her addiction to cigarettes is replaced by an addiction to him. He finds a rather unusual way out of the dilemma.