Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Stewart Mackinnon, This Little Life is the story of a premature baby's fragile existence, and of a mother's supreme trust and tragic betrayal. Rosemary Kay's screenplay was awarded the BBC's Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award and is an adaptation of her novel Between Two Eternities. Luke is born prematurely weighing only one pound and four ounces. He is too small to be cradled in his mother's arms but can be held in the palm of her hand. Everything possible is done to keep him alive, but what does her son want? Luke's mother, Sadie, desperately wants him to have a voice and, through her friendship with a young boy, mother and son find a way to talk.

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Although based on the history of Cambodia during the years of the Khmer Rouge Regime (Angka), the film takes place in an unspecified country at an unspecified time. Could be anywhere where there is civil war and people are imprisoned and tortured just for 'being'.

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Bend It Like Beckham is a British 'Teen-Comedy' about bending the rules to get what you want. If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him the world's your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it. Do you think your marriage-obsessed folks will let you play a Man's game? If you're Jules - 18, English and a girl - what will it take to convince your mother that just because you play footie with girls doesn't mean you're a lesbian? Both girls dream of playing professionally - that means going to the States where the girls get paid, get sponsorship and get proper respect. Jess and Jules are on their way with help from their coach, Joe, until they both fall in love with him.

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A grandmother and child go for a walk in the woods with a bag full of kittens.

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1942. The world is at war. Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, is parachuted behind enemy lines into Southern France. Only she knows she has a dual mission. Officially, she has been recruited by the British Government on a special operation to liaise with the local resistance group, who are using guerrilla tactics against the occupying German Army. Unofficially, she is searching for her lover, Peter, an English airman missing in action after his plane is shot down. As Charlotte becomes more deeply involved with the resistance fighters, led by Julien Levade, she realises that her love of France and its people will change her life forever. Charlotte Gray is a thrilling romance set against the harrowing events of the dark years of the War in France.

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During the peacefulness and sunshine at the start of the pandemic in the UK, a young girl hears creatures talking in the countryside near her home. She uses this discovery to entice her older sister out of a depression. The film uniquely integrates audio description into the main soundtrack. Trailer password: Hetty22

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Cherish, an adolescent on the brink of adulthood is still full of dreams and inhibitions. She meets her father for the first time. Reluctant to accept him and after a cold start, a genuine affection builds up. Then she finds her father has remade his life with another woman.

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Lorna lives with her depressed mother, whom she looks after. She has buried her emotions and is only helped out of her isolated world when Earl, a builder, comes to fix a wall.

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The story of a woman's fight to retain her dignity. When she's tried all she can by gentle means, and things are only getting worse, she starts to fight back with a vengeance. A macabre story of a victimised woman who kills the men that torment her and buries them one by one, on top of each other, in a shallow grave. To her surprise however, the dead do not rest easy. The abusive husband she kills returns to torment her as a very real ghost. At the same time, she is being investigated for another murder by a sadistic detective, who is not what he appears to be.

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Dead Drunk is an educational short drama that looks at the culture of drinking from the perspective of a group of teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.

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Dog takes place on what starts out as an ordinary day for 15-year-old Leah from Thamesmead but turns out to have a shocking and violent conclusion when her boyfriend John is pushed over the edge by an innocuous incident.

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Based on the filmmaker's collection of British newspaper cuttings, Everyday Something features interlocking private moments that give strange glimpses into everyday life. The characters demonstrate their longings as we witness their thwarted lives and strategies for survival eg a woman who can't stop jogging, a man obsessed with Claudia Schiffer.