Projects in genres: Drama

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On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend. Shocked, she finds her aspirational world turned upside down as she approaches the 'third age' of her life. Unable to deal with what she considers the shame of her predicament, she goes into exile with her estranged bohemian sister, who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate and is a keen member of a senior citizens dance group based at London’s Sadler's Wells.

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Based on the incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, and his attempt to win the first single-handed round-the-world yacht race in 1968. Crowhurst entered the Sunday Times Golden Globe race, partly as an opportunity to publicise a new navigation device he had been working on. He fitted another of his inventions, a stability system, to his untested trimaran and set off to on his solo mission to circumnavigate the globe. Leaving his family behind, his inexperience and loneliness found him confronted with dramatic struggles and acute isolation alone on the high seas. A haunting tale of a man going to sea and the family he leaves behind.

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The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.

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When Aristide Leonides, a wealthy and ruthless tycoon is poisoned in his own bed, Detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve the gruesome crime. He is shocked to discover that one of the key suspects is Aristide's beautiful granddaughter Sophia, his former lover. Hayward must keep a clear head to navigate the sultry Sophia and the rest of her hostile family in a case where nobody is above suspicion.

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After attending a party Anna comes home with her boyfriend. Nothing much happened that night yet as they get ready for bed suddenly everything seems different. Did something happen he's not telling her about? Or has their relationship been in trouble for a while maybe and it only now becomes apparent? Anna spends the next week looking at her life and analyzing what is important to her. Is her life still in the shape she wants it to be? Should she try and shake things up a little? Has she already done something she shouldn't have? Or did he?

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How does memory work? How can experiences be handed down from generation to generation? How does the act of narration change the experience? Three young men and their grannies go on a quest for their historic and personal legacy. There’s the British spy with a bone-dry sense of humour, the Hungarian communist who survived the Holocaust and the German dancer whose look back turns out to be the most difficult. Unlike many recent documentaries which focused on conversation and raised their protagonists on a pedestal of awe, the “Granny Project” takes a different approach: playful, not afraid of confrontations, sometimes silly and seconds later honest and emotional. An unconventional attempt of the grandchildren’s generation to ask, on a different level, questions that drove their parents to the streets in the 1960s. This film neither aims to be antagonistic nor accusatory. Instead it’s perhaps naive but no less necessary attempt to understand the other. When the three grannies sit around a table with their grandsons and various interpreters we realise that two things at least are necessary to really bring the past and present in contact: an honest interest in one’s opposite party and a good translation. (Dok Leipzig brochure 2017) Official Selection Dok Leipzig 2017 - World premiere

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A gothic fairytale following three generations of women coming together in the aftermath of a divorce. When Alice’s mother, Grace, tells her that her father has become a “beast,” 7-year old Alice begins to question who or what she really is.

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When Bar Mitzvah boy Brian Silver becomes obsessed with Woody Allen, his mother Judith goes to great lengths to make sure the big day goes smoothly.

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Over the course of one fateful night in East London, thirty-something Candice learns that first impressions are not always everything.

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Frances thinks Brian is having an affair. In her pursuit to save their marriage she will soon find out more than she ever wanted. A short film based on the stage play CROSS by Deborah Kearne.

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15-year-old Kyle believes he can save his dying older brother with a plant he’s found at the back of a garden centre. Problem is, there’s a shadowy government agency out to destroy it first.

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Ten-year-old James enjoys constructing things from cardboard boxes with his Mum, their latest creation being a box car which they dart around the house in! Mum has an idea for their most ambitious project to date - a cardboard box fort made from thousands of boxes...