Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Brothers Arne and Oystein have spent almost every day of their lives together. Alone since their mother's death, they've grown old in their childhood home in a small Norwegian valley. The filmmaker observes the stillness of their daily life, engaging the audience in a different tempo and emphasizing the role of the powerful landscape. As our understanding of the character grows, Brothers becomes an emotional exploration of their intense relationship and their lifelong difficulties in coping with the outside world.

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What does Isky, a young Croatian immigrant, do when life seems just too black and white? A piece of pink bubblegum takes him on a journey to discover the power of his imagination.

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Cheese Makes You Dream is a day in the life of Jim O'Connor - an acutely lonely pensioner with high hopes and a subscription to a Golden Oldie dating service.
 

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A woman returns home to find that everything is not quite as she remembers it.

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When an East End butcher boy discovers his lover's been unfaithful, he resolves to win back his lover's heart, no matter what the consequences.
 
Daddy's Boy is a dark comedy that proves the way to a man's heart really is through his stomach.
 
Warning: Not Suitable for Vegetarians.

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Nine year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes to Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands.
 
As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day.

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Do I Love You? is a feature about life and all the questions that throws up at you. Wait, it's more about all the labels in life that get thrown at us: age, job, sexuality, boy-girl etc. It's a comedy with thinking time. Set in London and shot on DV with a miniscule budget, a stellar cast and crew - this is a film for the person who likes to ask questions.

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'Miss King's been taken ill, unfortunately, so you've got me, that's the bad news. The good news is we're going to have a film so you won't need your books - it's about the birds and the bees'.

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Three young girls are buying ice lollies on a south Wales housing estate. When Omeed, a young Muslim refugee girl, tries to do the same with a food token, the shopkeeper is angry at her lack of comprehension. Humiliated in front of the other girls, Omeed makes a desperate gesture that might just gain her the acceptance she desires.

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A poetic and compelling 16mm film shot in London, Karachi and Lahore which encompasses five stories relating to the times of day for Muslim prayer. The work explores overlaps between time, memory and location. Connecting different places and people through images and sounds, Eating Grass contains documentary footage accompanied by a voiceover in both Urdu and English. The textures of individual voices continually slip from one language to another, creating and repeating rhythms. Meaning is not only conveyed by what is said but also by building tonal rhythmical cadences, similar musical structures to those found in jazz or Indian classical music.

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Orman is having a fruitless conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr Langley everything will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his calls.
 
The film uses an innovative blend of atmospheric stop-frame animation, live action performance and digital effects to create a dark world of uncertain reality.

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Fields is a meditation on war filmed at First World War battlefields in Belgium and Northern France in Spring 2002. Through breathtaking landscapes and an evocative soundtrack, the film asks the viewer to consider the continuum of violence in the world since 1918.