Projects in categories: Fiction

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It's a Saturday night in London, the hippest city on earth. Quant and Hawk, the young couple at the centre of More is Less, both agree on one thing - they want to go out. The only trouble is, that's all they agree on. Where to go? What to do? There's just so many choices, so many possible great-night-outs. A seemingly endless world of theatres, movies, gigs, raves and parties await them both, but they're just unable to pick.

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My Life So Far is the tale of a young boy's coming of age in a highly eccentric Scottish household. The spell of childhood is broken when an enchanting French woman joins the family and established relationships are threatened.

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A love story full of humour, passion and danger, My Name is Joe was filmed in the heart of one of the poorest and most neglected neighbourhoods of Scotland's biggest city. Two street-wise but vulnerable people struggle to overcome the harsh conditions that weigh them down, leaving few choices in their lives.

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An ordinary day. An ordinary bloke. A not so ordinary swimming pool. John is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. He dives in aiming to swim a length underwater, but he runs out of air and has to come up. He surfaces, looks around - and sees he's treading water in a pond! Mildly confused, he ducks down again. In need of another breather, he comes up. This time in someone's bath......

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Nana is the documentary account of the lives, loves and experiences of four grandmothers as told to their own granddaughters. Filmed against a backdrop as culturally and filmically diverse as England, Palestine, Israel, France and New York, their stories are woven together to expose the rich, universal fabric of family emotions.





In London, Alison opens her story in conversation with her quintessentially English grandmother Kitty. In stark contrast, in Palestine Suheir approaches her grandmother Rashida with the respect due to the matriarch of 100 descendents. Fabienne is in New York, a world apart from Simone. Feeling responsible for her grandmother's imposed isolation, she goes to her in France to confront her guilt. Over in Israel, Ruti reincarnates images from her childhood where her highly spirited grandmother Blanche feeds her 'the moon'.





On one level, Nana questions the idea of 'a common destiny'. How much do we learn from our grandparents? Do we inevitably replicate them or do we simply beat our own paths in life? A many-stranded movie, Nana takes an inside look at who our grandmothers really are.

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Eight desperate men happen upon a bazooka-wielding pig farmer. Naturally, you're curious...

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In the small hours of the night two shots ring out. Kudjo, a black gangster, lies alone and bleeding on the floor of his deserted nightclub. Through his eyes, we see the climactic events which led up to his shooting. Set in London's clubs, the film tells of a man's battle to escape the hate that he himself set in motion many years before.

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In the small hours of the night, two shots ring out. Kudjo - a black gangster - lies alone and bleeding on the floor of his deserted night club. Through his eyes, we see the climactic events of the night which led up to his shooting. Set in London's clubs, On The 8-Ball tells of a man's battle to escape the hate that he himself set in motion many years before.

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On The Edge is a turbulent love story between two tormented characters who desperately try to come to terms with the flaw in their nature. Lorna is a lost and distraught teenage heroin addict, who prostitutes herself to feed her habit. Court is a young man in his early twenties, haunted by the betrayal of his sister, who was sacrificed by his mother to regain her daughter's lost soul.

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A funny and moving story of family rivalries and loyalties. After the death of their mother, a group of siblings go missing through the night in Glasgow. As a violent storm tears through the city, the brothers and their sister are torn apart during a long, dark night full of mishaps and misunderstandings. Each must find their own way to come to terms with their grief through 24 hours of emotional and meteorological turbulence. As the city emerges from the storm, battered and bruised, so too must the family emerge and unite to mourn at their mother's funeral service.

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OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a story of fate and chance in which the throw of a dice or the fall of a card can affect many lives. It is also the extraordinary love story of two orphans from opposite sides of the world. Both are gamblers but also innocents who gain experience, with difficulty and with joy, in the colourful times of the mid-nineteenth century.

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Amanda, an undergraduate studying French, is woken one night by a stranger breaking into her attic bedsit. From this unpromising meeting a passionate love affair develops between her and the enigmatic intruder, Mike. It's a liaison dangereuse: Amanda, a fantasist besotted with Baudelaire and nouvelle vague cinema; Mike, tough but sensitive, into more earthy pleasures. As her bedsit fills up with Mike's plunder, Amanda soon suspects her mysterious boyfriend has more to hide than stolen goods.