Projects in genres: Woman Director

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After the genocide of 1994, the Rwandan government temporarily suspended history from the school curriculum. The characters in After Years of Walking - children, teachers, genocide killers, students and historians - all find themselves in an uncertain zone between the old history and a new one.   The filmmaker found a feature film about the history of Rwanda, made in 1959 by Belgian missionaries. She took this film back to Rwanda as an entry point into Rwanda's search for history.

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Aisha is a young, Muslim-American woman studying abroad in London. She is dating the roguish Rashid but lives with her devout, hijab wearing cousin Fatimah. When her two worlds collide, Aisha is forced to reconcile her faith with her desires.

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An old woman negotiates the hectic streets of London, fearful of being knocked over. At a pedestrian crossing her worst fears are realised as she collides with a rollerskater.

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Shashi is in love with a white boy in Scotland, so her parents pack her off to India so that her Grandparents can arrange a more suitable match.   But none of them have reckoned with Grandfather.

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Seated in an unusual bar, a slightly intoxicated and rather troubled man is offered an ominous looking cocktail intriguingly named 'baby's blood' by an altogether too pleasant bartender. But will he drink the simmering concoction or will he let his imagination get the better of him?

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Molly wakes dazed on the floor. Joe has a gun. Not all is going to plan.

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When Hassan an asylum seeker gets stopped for speeding, his is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist by an over enthusuastuc 'bobby' on the beat. Hassan knows that any black mark against him and he and his family will be deported, so he has to come up with a plan - fast!

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A thief breaks into a house and finds himself trapped in the dark with a somnambulist, a drunk and an insomniac houseguest. Told almost entirely with stereo sound, this simple comedy seeks delight in showing us what is going on only when it matters.

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Running from a dark secret, Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W. Berthelsen) arrives at Black's estate in the Scottish Borders, looking for work. Cut off from the outside world, Francis Black) Peter Mullan, the blind owner, lives there in a shuttered-up, decaying mansion, with his elderly mother Bella (Phyllida Law).   Francis reluctantly offers the traveller a low-paid job in the yard. Put off by the unsettling atmosphere, Mike declines the offer. But as he turns to go, he sets eyes on Rachel (Jodhi May), Francis' enigmatic young wife, and changes his mind. Mike starts work on the farm, dumping the debris of the Blacks' once-successful business into the mud pit - a bottomless vortex of quicksand at the end of the land.   Mike soon realises that Francis, increasingly embittered by his blindness, exerts a domineering power over Rachel. Rachel, emotionally suffocated by her husband, is increasingly attracted to Mike, whose presence awakens her pent-up sexual desire. Unable to resist each other, they become lovers. As the sexual tension increases, so too does Francis' jealousy rage. In a fit of anger, Francis sacks the traveller. The threat of Mike's departure forces Rachel to choose between her husband and her lover. Unaware of his dark past, Rachel decides to run away with Mike. Seething with fury, Francis stands, knife in hand, by the edge of the mud-pit waiting for the unsuspecting lovers as they prepare to make their escape.

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Blue Gene Baby portrays visions of Genetic Identity and the scanning of the individual. The complexities of the individual can be reduced to numbers, codes and patterns through science. Genetic profiling and engineering hold a potential for human transformation both good and bad. But who will be checking the morality of these scientific advances?

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Jessie wakes to hear footsteps inside her flat.  Will she be able to confront them or will the monsters inside her head render her powerless? A powerful psychological drama about the nature of depression and what it means to be truly alive.

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The award winning 'disturbingly beautiful' story of a drowning woman. From dramatic fall into the water to tragically graceful end.