Projects in genres: Fantasy

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A pagan horror story. Rebecca has recently taken over the parish church in a rural English village. When her young daughter goes missing at a winter festival, villagers and local police join in the desperate search. However, the closer they edge towards finding the girl, the more secrets emerge from the town’s dark past.

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1970s, rural England. Richard and Juliette’s seemingly idyllic family life is thrown into turmoil when their son Ewan starts acting out of character, creating an insurmountable wedge between the once happy couple. At Starve Acre, their remote family home, archaeologist Richard buries himself in exploring a folkloric myth that the ancient oak tree on their land is imbued with phenomenal powers. While Juliette turns to the local community to find some kind of peace, Richard obsessively digs deeper. An unexpected discovery soon occupies the couple’s attention and dark and sinister forces, unwittingly allowed into the home, offer a disturbing possibility of reconnection between them. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Official Competition - World premiere

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Ella Blake is a stop motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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After ransacking an ancient island monastery, two siblings, now trapped in their sinking camper van, are torn apart by history, hallucination, and a sacred stone. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - LFF for Free - NETWORK@LFF Shorts Programmes

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A Kafka-esque nightmare about a screenwriting professor whose life slowly unravels after he learns he may lose his job to a man who appears to him as his doppelgänger. As the Brutalist architecture of Jeremy's world closes in on him, he makes a terrible decision...

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During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

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In a dystopian near future, Hen and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - European premiere

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Fran is a clean-cut middle-aged woman sat in a medical reception, waiting for her wife Nina to join her for an appointment. Despite her neat appearance, Fran's mind seems chaotic, causing intense emotional shifts that make her perception of reality increasingly surreal.

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Ignored throughout her pregnancy, Lilith senses her identity is being smothered by her burgeoning motherhood. Her anxieties begin to have physical manifestations - then she starts to fall apart - literally. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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In a city devastated by a climate disaster, we follow Elliot as he uses his last ever wheelchair battery to meet his boyfriend Aaron for their first and final dance… BATTERY is a climate change thriller – one night of love and loss against a background of eco-ableism.

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Struggling with unemployment and lack of purpose in life, thirty-something RYAN impulsively buys a lucky Japanese ‘Daruma’ doll and takes it home to his girlfriend LOUISE, hoping his fortunes might change. Reluctant to entertain his wishful thinking, Louise persuades Ryan to throw his new friend 'Mr Lucky' away. But somehow Mr Lucky reappears and tension in the house grows as circumstances for Ryan go from bad to worse… As Ryan begins to talk with Mr Lucky, take it to bed and even bring it along to a job interview, Louise grows concerned that something is very wrong. But the more she tries to separate him and Mr Lucky, the more horror is unleashed into their home. Will Louise find a way to bring Ryan back from insanity or is it only a matter of time before the BLACK DARUMA gets its terrifying way with her too?

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While waiting for the last train of the night alone at an unstaffed rural station Jessica encounters a mysterious mime artist vying for her attention.