Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Life is a journey of experience, leaving behind flashing memories of wishes and desires. Some are granted, but what about those that never come true?

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The universal experience of riding the top deck of a London bus unfolds through the lives and eyes of south London school kids, rude boys and appalled from middle England.

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The film was inspired by motives from Franz Kafka's short story 'Children on a Country Road'. It traces a journey through the solitary landscapes of the Polish Bieszczady region, an area that was densely populated before WWII. The film was shot with a small German-Polish crew, and all actors are local people.

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London is a big city, and for those new to it, it can sometimes seem quite scary. But Tomoko, who arrives from Japan to learn English, accidentally discovers a mysterious, secret city underground, inhabited by friendly little aliens and beautiful blossoms. After she's found it, everything changes.

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Grace Anderson lives a life of numbness, accompanied by the voices in her head.   When her older sister decides to move to Norway, Grace has to take care of herself for the first time - leading her to question her job, her life choices and her very existence.

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A dark fairytale about three girls, a 7" single and a dance competition.

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When a menopausal Miss Jamaica is shat on by an elephant, she decides to ask her cheating husband for a divorce.  

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On 21st May 2003, British artist Mark Anstee started work at the In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium. His task was to draw two opposing armies of equal number on a four metre square wall - in twelve days. The life and times of 19,386 small biro men. 

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An urban fairy tale. A statue comes alive and chaos ensues. Set in the heart of Liverpool's night-life. A story about Love-Life-Death, or maybe not?

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In Festival, a comedy about the Edinburgh Festival, we get to know a lot of characters. Faith gets off a bus and starts handing out leaflets for her one-woman show. Sean, a famous comedian, is incredibly rude to a radio journalist, live on air. Micheline, a posh Edinburgh housewife, rents out her enormous flat to an experimental theatre group from Canada. She can't help spying on them from the close. At their house in the country, her husband and baby are waiting for her.   Joan, the radio journalist, wants to sleep with the charming Irish comedian Tommy. Does he really like her or does he just want five stars this year? Will the alcoholic PA Petra go off the wagon after a row with her horrible boss Sean? Will the Comedy Award jury ever agree on a shortlist? Who is that beautiful girl comic Nicky flirting with now?   Who will get an audience? Who will win an award? Who will find love, who is really talented and who will be the Next Big Thing?   Festival is about that strange month of August when the whole world comes to Scotland to perform, to watch and to drink, and every show promises to be better than the last one. For one month a year, for some people, Edinburgh becomes the centre of the universe.

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Myra is part Cherokee, a cleaner in the local hotel. She and husband Thomas and unemployed son Terry live in a trailer park. In 1828 gold was found in Dahlonega in the American deep south; the Cherokees were rounded up and force-marched to the west in the 'Trail of Tears'. In a moving portrait, Fool's Gold peels away the layers of affluent colour-co-ordinated shops, cafes and big cars to reveal a community, where people like Myra and Thomas, live out life untouched by the prosperity of tourism, who struggle with poverty but share the little they have with others.

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A heartbreaking tale of family, love and loss. Adan must face the horror of his past in order to give his daugter a future.