Projects in genres: Drama

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To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army – something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2019 - Orizzonti - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Competition

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In the town of Krabi, a popular tourist destination in southern Thailand, the pre-historic, the recent past and the contemporary capitalist world awkwardly collide. The town’s local folklore and histories are promoted as attractions to foreigners, while the town’s traditional labour force is muted and hidden from the tourists’ eyes. A nameless character, whose identity continually changes, takes us around town to explore various sites that capture Krabi in its current state. These sites uniquely illustrate how Krabi’s folklore is propagated and commodified to fill the need of tourism industry.
A docu-fiction work from Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong developed from ideas explored in their 2018 Thailand Biennale installation piece 'The Ambassadors'.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Wavelengths
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentation

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Jay hides her identity, hides her passport, hides her past. She wants to find out who killed her activist father and journeys to a remote house in Spain. There, she encounters Miguel, a local huntsman. Is he the killer of her father or an innocent man? Bosc is an atmospheric mystery concerning buried secrets and lies.

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Brexit has happened. All foreigners have been deported. A courier run business works to find a way to bring foreign born nationals back in to the country.

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On the eve of her father’s birthday, Dawn and her fun uncle Nate struggle over her bedtime routine. A new dynamic to their relationship is explored as they navigate their way through a family crisis.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Debate Strand

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Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions. Adapted from the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold Summer is a tender, funny coming-of-age story, featuring original songs by the indie darlings Belle & Sebastian.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Laugh Strand

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Josie and Carmen are stranded by the roadside on the way to a wedding, reluctantly they hitch a ride with a handsome stranger who is not all that he seems.

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A woman gets stuck in a lift with the engineer that's fixing it, only to discover it's the man she had a one-night-stand with just a few weeks before. As the awkwardness manifests, it becomes clear they both have very different interpretations of the events that unfolded that night.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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A middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.

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Kit, a young British Vietnamese man, returns to his birth country for the first time in over 30 years. He was just eight years old when he and his family escaped Saigon as 'boat refugees' during the Vietnam-American war. No longer familiar with this country and unable to speak his native language, Kit embarks on a personal journey from Saigon to Hanoi, in search of a place to scatter his parents’ ashes. Along the way he meets his estranged family and falls for Lewis, an American whose father had fought in the war.
During his travels, Kit finally starts to connect to the memories of his parents and his own roots.
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - World premiere

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A couple try out their new cycling cleats and pedals, but their first casual bike ride turns into something else entirely.

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Vickie Black is young and hungry, though working as a maid in London, she has her sights set far higher. Vickie goes into a job interview positive, but the questions from her faceless male interviewers soon become predatory. As the interview takes its toll, Vickie reaches breaking point.