Projects in genres: Woman Director

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The friend zone... We have all been there! Wondering if that glance from your crush meant something and if you will ever muster the courage to do something about it? Meet Adam and Emma with their cute, but unavoidable, problem. Brought to life through the illustrations of Meng-Chia Lai.

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A family of arctic foxes learns to cope with the fact that one of them is fading away. A story about losing and remembering.

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When your memory fades, your grip on reality becomes fragile and the sense of self slowly slips away. In a synagogue hall in North West London, a group of elderly people gather to find release. Using music and song they try to reconnect with themselves. Through the poetic use of poignant personal photographs and carefully assembled voiced-over memories, this film takes us into the emotional heart of these people, coping with the onset of Dementia.

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In 1943 a convoy of 120 left Treblinka and moved to the Northeastern part of Italy. They had completed Aktion Reinhardt and were ready to engage in anti-partisan combat in Trieste and Istria. Buried in silence, this is the story of an unknown concentration camp of the Axis.

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Taking as its starting point the photographic archives of the Thistle Foundation and Craigmillar Festival Society, rather than examining the known facts and details of the photographs held in the archives, the narrator uses them to recall her own memories of making photographs as a teenager. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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Set in the late 1990s. After a prank goes wrong on the estate tensions run high. Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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How much of our mother can we really know? This animated documentary explores three men’s recollections. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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Pee. Wait. Panic. Steph is in a happy, long-term relationship, but now that she might be pregnant she has no idea what she wants. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand

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Inspired by true events, the story of the first American women who tested for space travel. Their psychological and physical endurance broke records. They were pioneers and adventurers who battled the inequalities of their time, whose exploits remained a state secret for some time. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eighteen, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael's best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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Transcending the sound and visual of the drum, using nature’s most destructive forces fire and water as catalysts for destruction and creating a mood piece of raw, ritualistic, drumming phenomena. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Cult Strand

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Taking its title from the French Surrealist artist, Claude Cahun’s (1894-1954) incomplete memoir 'Confidences au miroir', Sarah Pucill's film brings life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun amidst a visual extravaganza of costumes and hand-made sets. Following Cahun’s text, the film includes Cahun’s early and later life and work, including her political propaganda activity and imprisonment in Jersey with her partner Suzanne Malherbe during the Nazi occupation of the island. The tracing of a life is made conscious through the projection of images of the couples' home in Jersey into a domestic London setting. As a sequel to director Sarah Pucill's previous film 'Magic Mirror' (2013), this film continues her experiment to bring cinematic life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun. In this film Pucill animates re-stagings of Cahun’s black and white self-portrait and still–life photographs with voices from Cahun's text 'Confidences au miroir', collaging and transposing black and white stills and words, into colour and soundscape. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere