Projects in categories: Fiction

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It is the turn of the century in a sleepy North country market town. Two young boys Arthur and Wilfred, dream of adventure - of going to war to fight for King and Country. Though still at school and under age for Kitchener's army, this does not stop them enlisting. As they board the troop train for the war front in their newly pressed army uniforms all family feuds are forgotten. Yet nothing could have prepared them for the hell that waited in the trenches, in the mud, on the barbed wire, in the squalor of shattered limbs that once were brave men.





On recuperative leave home, Arthur falls deeply in love with Amy his girlfriend - and makes every hour count. However, back at the front, Arthur and Will are no longer boys but men grown old beyond their time - scarred by the slaughter of life. Into this hopelessness comes brief news of happiness - Arthur is to be a father. Now the real battle is on to stay alive for at last there is hope.





But sadly fate has a different course to run, for Arthur is riddled with machine gun fire while attempting to save the life of a wounded soldier. For Will this is a dreadful end to a wonderful friendship - for the generals just another statistic of the Great World War. But life must go on...and Will on returning home sees the future in the eyes of Arthur's child - the hopes, the dreams of a new generation.

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In a small Tehran courtroom, the stories of three strong-willed women unfold as they use reason, charm, pleas for sympathy, anger, even a disarming wit to win what they each need - a divorce. Divorce Iranian Style is a unique window into the impassioned but very practical business of divorce - and marriage - in three Iranian women's lives. Jamileh, whose son saved her from the hand of her abusive husband; Ziba, an outspoken 16-year-old who proudly stands up to her 38 year-old husband and his family; and Maryam, remarried and desperate to regain custody of her two daughters. Stirring and poignant, this fly-on-the-wall look into the real circumstances of Iranian women's lives shatters the stereotype of women as passive victims in the Muslim world. (Edinburgh Film Festival Review)

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A modern day fairy tale set in the North East coastal town of Saltburn, where time creeps on unaware of change. When misfit Douglas is landed with a sack of flour dressed in a babygro he suddenly gains the respect and admiration he dreams of. In this quirky tale of differing perceptions, Douglas proudly enters fatherhood, but isn't it just a sack of flour?

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Michael was born in his father's farmhouse, works on his father's farm and lives in a cottage just one field away, which he bought from his father when he got married. It is November 1996, and Michael is now 47. Jim, his father, has been running the farm for 50 years.

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Dublin 1975. Eight years old and cowboy mad, Evie sets out to rescue her father when his drinking and debts threaten to plunge the family into crisis.

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1554. The young Queen Elizabeth inherits a country wracked by internal religious conflict after years of divisive rule from her father Henry VIII, then her zealous Catholic half-sister, Mary. But in a few short years, she overcomes internal conspiracy, assassination attempts and formidable pressure from abroad to emerge as Europe's most powerful monarch.

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A civil servant reminisces about his life as a magician and the difficulties it caused him.

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A restauranteur plans to fake his own death after discovering his wife has hired someone to kill him.

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Sophie and Nick are surprised to learn that their recently deceased pet was no ordinary cat - Fred was a world-famous rock star! However, the pleasures and pressures of the high life proved too much for the star who fell ill with cat flu never to recover. But just how many lives does Fred have left...?





This musical celebration featuring original songs is a treat for cat fans of all ages.

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The North of Ireland, 1973: Jacqueline is lonely at her posh new school, until she meets Monica - wonderful, dazzling Monica - the most exciting teacher she ever had. Right away, Jacqueline is determined to become her favourite. But the love of Monica is not easily won; and what if the teacher wants something in return?

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Hypnotic, almost ritualistic, portrait of Eric, a 17 year old boy trying to keep control over his own intense emotions - especially his feelings for Jason, an 18 year old boy who barely knows him. One afternoon he succumbs and climbs through Jason's window, saying to his empty room what he has until now been unable even to speak out loud. It is here, illicit and alone, in Jason's bedroom, that he finally cones to terms with his own obsession.

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Leading Players: John Keegan, Michelle Forbes, Maeve Magrath, Rosemary McAuley, Caiomhe McComb and Niamh Kersten





A young girl's struggle against domestic brutality in 1930s rural Ireland.