Projects in genres: Action

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In a world obsessed with knowing the future, we find Alberto, a Colombian immigrant working as a massage therapist in the City of London. Mild-mannered, almost shy, he blends into the multi-ethnic city to which he has come to earn money to pay for his mother's operation back home. The streets of London aren't paved with gold but with old chip wrappers, and Alberto has found himself trapped in a vicious circle. Staying in London beyond his plans, the fervently religious man becomes obsessed that God has a destiny marked out for him. Everywhere he begins to see signs - on the streets, in bars and most potently on the clients he massages. When one day, a "third-way" politician, Jackie Jordan, visits the spa Alberto sees a sign that will set him on the path to his ultimate destiny. Absorbing the Bible, Nostradamus, Palmistry and the Qur'an in its mythology, this is a taut, poignant East London based thriller with a supernatural twist.

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The directional debut from Scottish director Graeme Maley, a gritty and poetic Nordic-noir about digital revenge set over three nights in the permanent winter darkness of Iceland’s capital. The freezing city of Reykjavik provides a backdrop for a story of digital revenge and dirty secrets. When Ada shows Ingvar a ‘parent porn’ website where a local teen has hacked his mum’s webcam and been secretly filming her having a string of one night stands, Ingvar becomes fixated. He recognises the place where the original parent porn was filmed leading him to its teenage maker, a path ripe with danger, regrets and guilt. Ingvar’s life is changed forever… Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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The Hallows Estate is on alert as strange graffiti tags with messages declaring the streets will be taken over on Halloween night begin to appear on walls around the place, along with sightings of strange figures lurking in the shadows. One of the gangs responsible for the serious anti social behavior that give the estate a bad name, decide to take these threats head on and ignore the curfew on Halloween night. But who ever, or what ever, this new threat is, they seem to have the very night on their side as they make good on their promise of claiming the streets by frightening and violent means.

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A young British Muslim undercover cop is given the task of shadowing a football gang on their European tours. Sequel to the ground-breaking 1995 film ID.

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Elias is a 'fallen angel' given a second, pathetic life, after dying young from an accidental overdose. Forced by higher powers to work as a 'cupid' on Earth, he is forbidden from pursuing love himself, namely Mary, his true love. He decides to finally end his cruel existence and, ultimately, his heartbreak.

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Set in the world of illegal bike-racing, the film charts the journey of a young woman whose brother is killed on the streets of London in a hit-and-run, and who then must push herself to her mental and physical limits to find justice.

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Based on the true story of two Czechoslovak soldiers sent to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SS in 1941. SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich was the Reich's number three, and the main architect of the 'Final Solution'.

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India 1947. A British detective is sent on a secret mission to intercept the killer who will alter history by assassinating the man of peace - Mahatma Gandhi. In a race against time, he overcomes local police, intense heat and his own inner fears until he reaches Gandhi and shoots.

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After a botched art heist in France, a group of friends are left with a body on their hands and the gendarme hot on their trail. They hide the body and make a plan to sell the painting and return home. But as they wait for a chance to escape from their secluded holiday home, they realise the body has gone missing. Paranoia and fear sets in and the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon it is clear there's a killer in the house and the group must figure out who is responsible before they all suffer the consequences.

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Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee's past, turns up. Things get worse when Lee accidentally kills a holy cow and the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters.... and mysticism. How far do you have to go to get away? Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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When famous author Elena Wdig commits suicide, her twin daughters, librarians Nan and Ana, are lost without her. Elena’s final words suggest that her biographer, Eben, murdered her. During one night shift, the twins set off on a quest to avenge their mother’s death at the National Library of Wales, but are disrupted by night porter Dan, who is unwillingly caught up in the saga. Directed by award-winning director Euros Lyn, and based on Fflur Dafydd’s bestselling novel, this offbeat thriller explores the secrets and lies at the heart of storytelling, and asks who has the right to tell the story... Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Sensitive wallflower Cara exists in her humdrum life until the appearance of charismatic Jay unlocks powerful desires within her. When Jay's beautiful French lover arrives, Cara's journey to self-discovery takes a dark and unexpected turn, with tragic consequences.