Projects in categories: Fiction

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It is a story about a boy and a man, Johnny. But more than anything else it is about suffocation and contrary images between natural beauty and artificial modernity.

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Alcoholic Sonny has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink. Despite the obstacles he has to overcome he manages to hold himself together enough to enjoy their final meeting and to see his son's success in the business he is proud to have passed on.

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Soldiers blinded in action share and show individual stories of how they rebuilt their lives. Each character portrays a new life after an incredible journey and a fight to live again. They reflect on both the sorrows and the new strengths they had to find to survive. A film about courage.

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A black comedy about duty, self-sacrifice, and regurgitation - a young man is torn between the conflicting demands of his phlegmatic grandfather and his pub obsessed girlfriend.

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Based on Saki's Sredni Vashtar, it is the story of a young boy who wreaks revenge on his domineering and repressive guardian by enlisting the help of his pet ferret who he worships as a god.

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Morgan, an embittered dying man, receives a visit from a mysterious stranger who appears to hold the key to eternal life. Morgan, seizes the chance to live again but soon discovers that you can't escape the past.

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States- is a psychological journey through three human states: Restriction, rebellion and finally freedom. States- is also a visual struggle between technology and humanity and the irony in which the eventual human freedom takes.

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Still Life is a short film drama which explores the thoughts, emotions and desires of an old bed-bound woman whose life is limited to one room in her terraced house in Belfast. It is a room of photographs, memento's and regrets.

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A wind swept coastal village where summers are long and the world seems to have no edges. Helen, an eleven year old tom-boy, spends her life roaming sand dunes and flying her kite. With the memory of her father so close, it seems no one can touch her . . .

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Strip, is a young wall-paper stripper. The monotonous and repetitious nature of his work is getting him down. But, one day as he scrapes away yet another layer, he makes a surprising discovery. It's his secret and things take a bizarre turn.

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Sitting in a train, watching the landscape flying past, you imagine a story involving two sunflowers trying to face each other against Nature's rules. This film uses the sunflowers as metaphors to illustrate the personal conflict between individual attraction and society's rules.

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A city in Ireland, near future. An uneasy peace has hung over the city for a number of years now. Law and order is maintained by two rival gangs, the Boilermen and the Westies. Between them they rule the city. Luke Bradley is an ordinary citizen who has avoided being involved with either of the gangs, until his child is murdered, the latest in a series of child killings which have swept the town. Each side has been affected by these deaths. Bradley is approached by Friday Knight, the leader of the Westies, to broker a deal with the Boilermen, to join forces and find the culprit. Local rumour and whisper lead both gangs to Sam Magee, an old Preacher and religious recluse. The Preacher, pleading his innocence, is taken to Sunset Heights, a pagan stone circle, where the Druids once performed magical rites to their God of the Sun. There he is tried, executed and buried. Normality returns. When another child goes missing, accusations fly between both sides. Following sightings of the Preacher around town the gangs go together to dig up the grave and find to their horror the body has vanished. Terror and suspicion sweeps through the gangs. No one can be trusted. Bradley is caught in the middle as he desperately tries to find the murderer before everyone is destroyed.