Projects in genres: Woman Director

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All things buried will resurface. Focused on the last weeks of the life of an archaeology professor, whose academic world is thrown into turmoil when forced to exhibit the 2000-year-old bog body he excavated with his former student and lover. As places, events and his relationships appear to conspire in the analysis of the bog body, he concocts an ‘archaeology of the living’. Forced to confront painful home truths created by the love affair that tore his family apart, he enlists the help of a young security guard at the university who has his own peculiar reasons for an intense devotion to the body. Increasingly affected by his illness, his final address at the opening of the exhibition becomes the haunting soundtrack to a brutal murder, an event for which he, as an act of atonement, is prepared to pay the ultimate price.

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A British-Nigerian woman tormented by her inability to have children experiences a transformative baptism leading her on an unexpected journey that offers her a chance to rebirth herself.

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Brian, Sara, Justin and Celine, four very different colleagues, find their days in the office unwittingly messed with when their new photocopier "Trixie" secretly comes to life and goes to extreme lengths to stop their inner office meddling.

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There's no stopping where a bike can take you.

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This short British action comedy is a story of two women on a mission - one to pay to her overdraft, the other to stop a bank robbery. The adventure begins.

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By presenting a poetic expression of the interrelationship between the artist and the inspiration of flowers as a dynamic artistic sensibility, FLOWER DUET is exploring sustainability and global warming issues through this experimental hand-painted (pastel/water colour) animated poem film from the director’s artist point of view.

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This film follows a personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced sexual control in Damascus. Through the creative use of family archive mixed with current footage of her body she reconstructs the pain of the past absorbed by her body.

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A troubled teenage girl is coerced into seeing a local shaman in search of spiritual healing. Trapped by ancient beliefs that serve only to pacify her mother, she finds peace in the physical realm by unleashing her repressed, youthful spirit on the unsuspecting shaman when she realises his true identity. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021

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Chen and Libby are two lonely people trying to connect in a meaningful way. Chen works all hours in a Chinese take-away and most of his interactions with customers are brief and unfriendly. Libby is an art student, new to the city and finding her way.

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The importance of disco dancing in Northern Ireland's working class community.

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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel. Official Selection SXSW Festival 2020 - 24 Beats Per Second - World premiere Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 - Rhyme and Rhythm - European premiere

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Zebra Girl is a psychological thriller with a bold streak of pitch-black humour that explores the vicious cycle of abuse and mental illness. Catherine’s seemingly perfect rural life is turned upside down after she discovers her husband is hiding a dark secret that leads her to the unthinkable. Murder. Cue Anita, Catherine’s mysterious best friend who shows up to help dispose of the body. As Catherine and Anita reminisce whilst chopping up and bagging up, their intimately intertwined and tortured past rears its ugly head. Reality blurs as Catherine’s tragic past is slowly revealed along with a secret she’s hiding to fight for the future.