Projects in genres: Thriller

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Lewis, a young, dishevelled, unsuspecting man finds himself in a cacophony of trouble, as a local gang leader, Frankie takes advantage of his need for connection and sets up shop in his flat. At its core, this film is a gritty, cinematic look into the manipulative world of cuckooing and what happens when you underestimate someone's abilities to make their own choices. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Winner - Short Film Competition Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025

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After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose, which is to be the centrepiece of her Christmas dinner. However, as she grows ever more isolated from her daughter, Janet’s need to nurture the goose becomes an obsession: one which will cost her dearly. A modern-day Grimm’s fairy tale about grief, isolation… and a goose. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - Winner - Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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A character-driven horror-thriller set at Lockbridge Academy, an isolated school on the coast, run by the powerful aristocratic Aberdeen family, who are hiding a dark secret. Eddie, a mute burdened with caring for his cruel, ailing mother, on the cusp of losing their home takes a caretaker position at the foreboding Lockbridge. There, he meets Marie, sparking and instant connection that will alter the trajectory of his life, while unraveling a sinister mystery lurking within the school that could shatter the Aberdeen family legacy forever.

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A Drama/Thriller that follows three different characters in a post-apocalyptic world, where danger lurks in unexpected and expected places. Things aren't always how they appear to be.

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A surreal Palestinian slice-of-life short. Through radio snippets and salon chatter, early teen Nara meets Ms Moodswings, the personified menstruation blood blob. A tapestry of interrupted life, where growing up unfolds amidst implied socio-political chaos. Official Selection Annecy 2026 Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2026 Official Selection Tricky Women Tricky Realities 2026

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After a young woman disappears, a corrupt detective and his volatile partner stumble through London’s starless underbelly, only to discover their prime suspect is entangled in a vast conspiracy - one that reveals the missing woman’s secret double life.

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Dexter, a scientist, pushes human knowledge and invents a time machine. The invention spirals into chaos when it unwittingly becomes a malevolent black hole, threatening the world’s very existence. She uncovers the aftermath of her creation when she discovers a cryptic watch, sent through time as proof of her invention's power. Then, face-to-face with her future self, Dexter becomes involved in a high-stakes battle against her destiny, eventually determined to prevent the very creation of the time machine. A shocking twist unfurls as a further version of Dexter emerges, a sinister doppelgänger orchestrating events from the shadows, manipulating the time machine's inception to fulfil a clandestine mission to alter her family's tragic destiny…

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CRYBABY is a deeply personal animated short by Welsh filmmaker Eleri Edwards, created through Ffilm Cymru’s Beacons scheme and produced by Biggerhouse Film, a company dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices. Drawing on her own experiences of late-diagnosed autism, Edwards crafts an intimate portrait of self-discovery, memory, and the struggle against internalised negativity. The film follows Carys, a 24-year-old woman packing boxes as she prepares to leave her parents’ house. What begins as a simple act of moving soon dissolves into an otherworldly landscape where she is overwhelmed by endless boxes and the haunting weight of her past. Lurking in the shadows is Carys’s internal voice, brought to life as an angry, chaotic scrawl of pencil scribbles - an embodiment of self-doubt and internalised stigma. As she sorts through the fragments of her childhood, memories of early school days and teenage sleepovers resurface, revealing the pain of exclusion and misunderstanding that shaped her. The 2D animation shifts fluidly between reality and imagination, capturing the turbulence of Carys’ inner world. CRYBABY is both a personal reckoning and a universal story - an exploration of autism, mental health, and the fight to silence the critic within.

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Izzy is assigned to photograph an empty Victorian manor prior to its sale. What should be a routine assignment turns into a nightmare when the house’s dark colonial past unearths secrets from the time of the British Raj. As unsettling visions and spectral apparitions of a vengeful spirit consume her, Izzy’s long-buried connection to her Pakistani heritage resurfaces with terrifying force. Trapped within the manor’s decaying walls, she must unravel its sinister secrets and confront the haunting manifestation of her own ancestral past - before it consumes her completely. Official Selection Tasveer Film Festival 2025

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Immerse yourself as a dark-web hacker in LILI, a neo-noir interactive adaptation of Macbeth set in contemporary Iran. As Lili plots a murder to secure her husband's rise in the militia, your covert actions expose the machinery of surveillance, power, and violence in a regime where nothing stays hidden. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Immersive Competition Official Selection Venice International Film Festival - Venice Immersive

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"Why does this keep happening to us?" Doctor Wokozi asks the same question each time she meets Professor Seva. She has done it seven times already and this is her last chance. Despite the experimental success of Time-travel in 2060, developed with the help of Quantex Ai, humans cannot withstand more than eight jumps and Spacetime entanglement is unstable. Each trip that she takes is fraught with danger and uncertainty. Equipped with a special pair of goggles, Doctor Wokozi has located Professor Seva's space-time coordinates in 2030. He lives alone with his plants, in an abandoned building - a decommissioned London hydroponic station. Each of her previous visits has been unsuccessful in convincing the reclusive genius to give up life in his current timeline and join her to save the world. She is now becoming desperate to finally transfer his consciousness into a storage device, so that she may bring him back to 2060, where his expertise on plants behaviour could help restore the biosphere and rescue humanity from extinction. THAT TIME IS NOW invites us to reflect on what makes us human, when facing the perils of an ecological collapse, through the themes of consciousness, steadfastness, and selflessness.