Projects in genres: Drama

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Eve has lost her husband in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a remote Suffolk beach house to grieve, but there's someone else in the house grieving her loss from another war.

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Set in current day Brooklyn, the story of Lilian, a lazy but charming and beautiful young woman who, having broken up with her boyfriend, has been placed into the care of family friend and famed reclusive author, Julia Price. To impress her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia - albeit an unauthorized one - with surprisingly amusing results.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere

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The Northern Scottish town of Fraserburgh; where boys become men through late-night drag racing as they dream of escapism. Like many, Finnie, a 36-year old former street racer, now works at the local fish factory with his teenage son, who is slowly following in his footsteps. One night, struggling to deal with his inner turmoil, and no longer able to ignore the fact that he’s going nowhere, he decides to go for one final joyride and risks losing his family forever.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - International Narrative Competition - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - European premiere

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Kaden is a world-class ski jumper in Whistler, Canada, unexpectedly presented with the chance of reconnecting with his teenage sweetheart. Khai is a corporate executive in Shanghai, China, faced with the fact that the girl he fantasizes about on the internet has just started working in his office. The two men go about their lives, without knowing that they are connected. When one is awake, the other is asleep. They dream each other. They are, in some strange way, the same person. The question is what happens if they were ever to meet….
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Viewpoints - World premiere

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When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mum accidentally gets pregnant from a one-night-stand, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Discovery - International premiere

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Estranged from his daughter and cut out by his father, Mike uses drugs as a doorway to escape from his painfully numbing thoughts while his brother tries to fix the pieces.

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A film location finder is shown around a repossessed, crumbling French château. Over the course of the afternoon, he slowly falls for both the place and the owner’s flirtatious representative, as she recounts the story of a famous book set there. But is their present-tense connection for real, or just a projection of the book’s 17th Century characters?

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A story about the power of sex stripped away from morality and judgement. A glimpse into a part of our society that is very rarely represented and a tradition that is as old as our morality.
The key question in the movie and even the root of the movie lies in the character Annabelle's line: "There are people who get punched for money, they are called boxers, it’s even a sport. Better I get fu*cked for money."
I think sex is far more natural than violence and yet we glorify violence and shun sexual desire. This story is our way of opening that conversation.
(Mbeng Ngassa, Nkanya Nkwai)

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Alex and Sam's relationship hits a crossroads, when Alex reveals a big secret. As the high-school sweethearts spend their first night alone together, they have to confront their fears head-on.

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Alan, Stuart and Angela are inseparable teenage misfits. When Alan discovers Stuart and Angela are secretly going out, he deviously foils their budding union.

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A teenager defies her mother by training in secret for the dangerous tradition of Cheese Rolling to try and live up to her brother’s past successes.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Thrill Strand

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When the strikingly confident Sapphire Jones meets the loitering Leon Magritte, it sets off a chain of events that strips away the layers of the planned city to reveal something dark and primal lurking beneath.
MIDSUMMER BOULEVARD is equal parts film noir, black comedy and cult murder mystery.