Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Keith has recently set up home with Claire in a suburban part of London leaving behind him a three year relationship with Julia and the inner city area he grew up in.

His action angers his sister and surprises his brother-in-law. Both attempt to change his mind but to no avail. He meets John on a routine call-out job. A mutual interest in football leads to John's offer of a free hotel room for Keith and his friend when they travel to Stockholm for an international football friendly taking place at the weekend. On route to the airport, realising he has left his passport, Keith returns home to find Claire in bed with Ryan, his brother-in-law.

Keith travels solo to Stockholm after his friend Dave, who has the match tickets, pulls out at the last moment. Angry, hurt and alone in a foreign city, Keith goes to the only place he knows; the hotel room offered by John. There he meets Anna, John's previous girlfriend, and ends up staying at her apartment. Over a period of several days, their complicated lives interweave as each one tries to manoeuvre the emotions of an unrequited love.

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An astute and affectionate portrait of the unseen community of HAM radio enthusiasts. The space age hobby where the world is your friend.

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A Filipino migrant has been living and working in Israel for ten years. Without a residence permit, in a country with very harsh law enforcement, she is only free to move around the house and the garden where she works. She has a special bond with her pet, a tortoise.

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On a Friday night in London, Alec, an enigmatic homeless man, sits across the street from a black-tie party at a posh hotel. A chance occurrence gives Alec the opportunity to enter this high society gathering, where the layers of his personality and his past are revealed to an unsuspecting audience.

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Every time she woke up in the arms of other men, she'd have to remember he was dead all over again - the sensual journey of a young widow.

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A young girl finds solace in her talent for woodwork. Her way of coping with her dying father. Charming to some, shocking to others.

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This a journey backwards to last moments of life from the point of view of a corpse.

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Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.

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A surreal look at the remnants of Socialist East Germany. Told through a double of the ex-president Erich Honecker, two ex-border guards (one east, one west) who photographed each other over the fence for 18 years and a man with a dream to rebuild his own version of the GDR in a bleak East German town with 70% unemployment.

A complex insight into the confused aftermath of a vanished country.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan.

Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.

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On acquiring a new Digi Video camera, Beryl becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process using it to articulate her desires and dreams in a video diary. As 'cineaste par exellance' she agrees to video the wedding of her friend Mandy, seizing the opportunity to imitate her filmmaking idols with disastrous and hilarious results.

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Flowers Don't Grow Here, told through the eyes of a gang of Ukrainian street children, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform. A life so at odds with 'New Europe': a childhood haunted by prostitution, addiction, crime, violence and murder.