Projects in genres: Drama

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Desperate to connect to a British girl adorned with images of nationalistic pride, a young man invites her on a late night date. Still heated from a day of hostile encounters, his social frustration quickly boils over, leading to an unexpected choice.

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23 year old Jessica Anne Khalid, alone and penniless through no fault of her own, thought she had reached the nadir of her miserable life, but within 48 hours things will go from bad to worse. In the face of adversity she summons up the courage to take back control, abandoning what little she has left, including her identity, and sets out to seek a better life. In a different part of the country, lonely widower and retired army officer Peter Jeffries, stricken by grief and racked with guilt, contemplates his limited future alone. When their paths cross, she recognises a kindred spirit, he his last chance to make amends, and together they discover the true meaning of unconditional love.

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Indie kid Rich lives in a remote cottage in Wales with his mum, Nesta, who is a novelist. He plays a guitar, but mostly to the sheep outside the house and the majestic, barren hills opposite. Nesta is a heavy smoker and has just been brought back from the hospital, suffering, probably, from a lung cancer. Rich is looking after her and helping out with the shopping and house work, but wants her to make a change. They have a heated argument, but she refuses to accept the fact that cigarettes could be the cause for her decease, even though she gets slimmer and noticeably weaker. She spends her days in bed, having lost her writing inspiration. She is visited by the local mobile GP, fitness maniac Dr Mickiewicz, who runs through forests and fields to reach his patients. He prescribes her movement and to Nesta's astonishment, even a fitness program which she has to follow. Nesta finds the very idea of her getting fit and taking up running ridiculous...

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A troubled fugitive steals a car only to find himself faced with a grim moral dilemma.

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An impressionable Launceston Elliot comes under the spell of the iconic Sandow The Magnificent, a performing circus strongman. He seeks him out as his mentor to train him for the Olympics.

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Tammy, bored with her brother's writing, is transported to a magical world where she, the Queen of Fun, sees the King of Dull build a dam on the River of Love. Her land is destroyed in the process, so she declares war on Dull.

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A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour - who happens to be the hermit's left eye. A film exploring the growing anxiety about the state of nature, and our place in it. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - Lab Competition Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Short Film Competition

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Single mom Jackie works as a human trafficker for illegal immigrants. She faces an unbearable task when she is confronted with a refugee baby.

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A troubled traditional Irish musician re-enters the fold after a long absence. An emotionally stunted friend wants to offer an apology. When words fail them both, music is all they have to bring them together.

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Wounded and armed with a rifle, a young man hides out in the storage room of an empty building awaiting the arrival of his target - political candidate Debra Gray. Haunted by two conflicting accounts of his brother's death in police custody, his obsession with Debra Gray slowly escalates as his sanity begins to unravel.

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Essex boy Jim is so beautiful you’d think a Greek sculpture had just come to life. But, with no future in the cultural desert that is his small town and the prospect of fame, fortune and cultural stimulation beckoning in Soho, like many before him, Jim journeys to London. On his first night, Jim is robbed and left penniless. He spends the night in an intricately made DIY cardboard box home with a homeless kid who suggests he join ‘The Raconteurs’ – a coterie of male escorts whose unique selling point is their encyclopedic knowledge of the arts. What follows is Jim’s comic descent from unsuccessful escort, to artist’s muse and art authenticator – a journey complicated by a rare psychosomatic condition called ‘Stendhal Syndrome’ which renders him painfully oversensitive to art. Jim’s encounters with paintings by artists such as Caravaggio cause fainting and hallucinations. But while this condition threatens to bring about his downfall it might also open up new opportunities if Jim is willing to grab them. Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A short documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. Through a series of recorded telephone conversations and reconstructive visuals, the film uses the helpline as a lens through which to view the experiences of LGBTQ people in the British farming community. In a world that prizes traditional masculinity and in which ideas of ancestry are fundamental, being gay can be isolating. Candid, intimate and shocking, the film offers a snapshot of a group of people bound together by circumstance, but so often disconnected from each other. Official Selection CPH:DOX 2018 - International premiere