Projects in genres: Woman Director

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These were the babies born at the beginning of the twentieth century, amongst them Rosa Mintz, daughter of immigrants, who served in the Red Cross with the Allies liberating Belsen concentration camp and Gai Eaton, entering his eighth decade when we encountered him still working at the Central London Mosque.

This is a celebration of the diverse community of older Britons.

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Morvern Callar is a 21 year old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something you get on with as best you can with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor.

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A pregnant woman starts to hear strange voices in her head. Voices which tell her to kill - could this be the result of the recent nuclear fall-out?

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1920: Arthur and Charlotte, a couple deeply in love, are making the most of a perfect sunny day in the park. But they are hotly pursued by Nigel, who is determined to reclaim his lost love. Passions reach fever pitch in this short silent movie.

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A fever dream of myths, taxes and housing. Once upon a time in England. Windows were bricked up because of the window tax. Today windows are bricked up - although nowhere near as elegant a feature as found in the city's old houses - in houses facing demolition, preventing illegal entrance.

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'A crash A jolt, a strong harsh jolt then numbing oblivion and the pain from nowhere - pain'. Based on a personal experience the film explores the mental and physical effects of pain.

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Film maker Carol Morley retraces the journey to India she took years before: where her friend and travelling companion, Corky, nearly died in an accident.

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A film about seeing and feeling: that treacherous task of making sense of the world.

Laura begins her first adult job and is immediately torn between the professional advice of colleagues and instinctive empathy for the patients in her care. Tragic events bring conflict to crisis forcing a final and defining choice.

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Silent Night is a sad little comedy based on a 1950's news item. Escaped convict, Efian Price runs home to hide. Seeing his girlfriend with another man, he offers to buy her love back by having her turn him in for the reward money.

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A childs summer and his loss of innocence. The picture postcard images of beach huts and beach life hide a darker reality as the boy witnesses his fathers encounter with a woman. The secure, ordered world of the huts begin to show subtle signs of being different.

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A young girl tries to escape the menace of a vicious small-time business man against the feigned ignorance of her mother.

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Swindles and Slim is a brutal, haunting portrait of two seventy-year-old ex-gangsters who regain their youth, only to lose it again - and each other, when bequeathed a stolen painting which is cursed.