Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021

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How much can you trust your childhood memories? Director Sam Firth investigates, sweeping her parents into the experiment and on a journey into the past as she explores subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and the stories we tell ourselves.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Journey - World premiere

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TRAPPED BY PLASTIC is a short documentary film about how award-winning photographer Mandy Barker highlights the impact of marine plastic pollution. Featuring Mandy’s photographs and behind-the-scenes insights, the film shows how she developed a distinctive ‘call to action’ using strikingly colourful, intricate images to confront viewers with unpalatable truths.

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Rachel Maclean’s bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - What Are You Looking At?

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Stereotypes are overturned in this story of physical disability, where a group of friends on a council estate find a way to assert their independence using the gifts others see as flaws.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK Or Mine?

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When a young girl discovers that Santa is not real, she questions the lies told by adults and the terrible secret that she has been forced to keep.

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A reinvention of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
The opening scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of 'A Christmas Carol'. As the family's grandmother narrates the much-edited story and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld.

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A story of independence, about a hot water bottle who gets left out in the cold. Directed and animated by Jenny Wright, it is a silent animation, exploring the nature and values of relationships, comfort, support and abandonment, told through an evocative line drawing and watercolour style.

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With the help of their family, friends, and faith, three fathers unravel the incomparable partnership of forgiveness and community in North Philadelphia.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - International premiere

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From Arthur Rimbaud’s enigmatic poems 'War and Fragments' of Folio 12, comes a stark warning to an age where time – fragmented, decontextualised and stored as optical or auditory data – accumulates, while memory fades.
Official Selection Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - World premiere

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A mother and daughter float in life pods in deep space, and battle to keep each other alive, and awake, during their own intergalactic lockdown.

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Retired Joy France attempts to break gender and age stereotypes by competing in the brutal, youthful, male-dominated world of battle rap. A story of one woman's daring attempt to embrace life.