Projects in genres: Drama

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Yorkshire, 1916. A choral society's male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription into the army. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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Warsaw, December 13th 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target. The Professor runs like a rat through the maze-like streets of Soviet-era Warsaw until she is forced to stop and take a stand. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection San Sebastián International Film Festival 2025

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Time and space collide in parallel lives spanning 700 years when author Nick Tosches is drawn into a violent quest to confirm the origins of a manuscript believed to be Dante's 'The Divine Comedy', written in the poet's own hand. After the sudden death of his daughter, Nick is summoned from self-imposed exile by a mafia don for his expertise on the Italian writer. With the help of an unpredictable assassin named Louie, the pair embarks on a dark and murderous journey to steal and authenticate the priceless work. A story which moves between the 21st and 14th centuries, weaving together the lives of Nick and Dante in their obsessive search for love, beauty, and the divine. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2026

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Years ago, Max asked Simon out, who turned him down. The two have remained friends, and get on the same train after seeing mates from university. Their conversation reveals that Max has gone onto have a thriving career and adopt children with his husband, whereas Simon is single and less successful. Eventually, Simon confesses his belief that if he had said yes, all those years ago, he and Max would still be together now. Max admits that he thinks the same, and asks Simon why he didn’t say yes. Simon replies that he was scared by how Max made him feel, but kept this a secret, assuming someone as confident as Max would never understand. Max says that he was also scared, but that that was why he asked Simon out, reasoning “what’s the point of dating someone who doesn’t give you butterflies?” A shocked Simon is left pondering this as Max gets off at his station. The train leaves and enters a tunnel, plunging Simon – now alone – into darkness.

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Amy reluctantly returns home to the windy clifftop in North Cornwall where she grew up, after a break-up with her partner Jess has left her homeless. She hopes her mum, Sue, will be pleasantly surprised at the chance for them to reconnect. But Sue isn't good with surprises, and has other things on her mind. She is preparing to plant a bare root hedge, her final act of resistance against the second home development that will surround her home, concreting over her memories and erasing her past. They start early: digging in the hedge is backbreaking work.   When Amy finally manages to tell Sue about her loss, Sue is lost for words. They doggedly continue planting, gradually finding a rhythm together in the silence. As night falls, and exhaustion sets in, Sue returns to the house, and Amy is left in the field, digging the last trench for the remaining plants. Alone, they each find a way to reach out across the silence, the years of separation, and their losses, towards each other. Official Selection Encounters Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2025

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A single mother in Morocco, trapped in a mundane existence, confronts her dreams and fears, leading to the agonising decision to forsake all she knows, even her children. Official Selection Marrakech Short Film Festival 2025

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When a Swiss woman and a British man reunite on the streets of London, what starts as a pleasant reunion gradually descends into an elliptical journey that challenges the accuracy of their memory through obsessive repetition in an attempt to reconcile their failed relationship.

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A coming-of-age drama following Cat, a wide-eyed freshman, while she attempts to navigate university. The abrupt ending of her situationship with laid-back Noah leads her to a desperate search for validation. Cat searches for fleeting replacements until she hits a low point. She attempts to build herself up from scratch, only to come face-to-face with Noah again.

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Refusing to submit to the image of an overlooked old woman Tona bares all to the gazing eyes of a life drawing class.

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In the world of London's drug war, there is no place for weakness. Mickey O'Brien a common working man is sick of struggling to survive. He wants, he feels, he deserves more - more money, more respect, and more power. On a chance night out he meets a drug dealer and his climb through the ranks of the drug world begins. Driven by ambition and an unholy thirst for power. The more he rises, the more heartless he becomes. Kiera, who once loved him, was there by his side. She always believed in his dreams, made excuses for the warning signs, and told herself there still existed good in him. However, as Mickey's fascination with control distorts into paranoia, and his hands get covered in blood, Kiera sees the monster he has turned into. Now, pursued by his foes, tormented by his own mind, and having no one to turn to, Mickey has his final reckoning. In a world where loyalty is a commodity and power is ephemeral, the question really is when you fall to the top, who will be watching you hit the ground?

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A young woman's psyche is haunted and fractured by the relentless demands of the predatory industry she sought to break into. Set against the backdrop of a female actor returning to the casting room, a psychological short film about the mental experience of dissociation. Through a surrealist lens, the film explores themes of performance, identity, gendered power, and a destructive nature of ambition.

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With another financial collapse in full swing and the state unable to fund pensions or elderly care, the government launches the Voluntary Euthanasia Scheme. Parents over a certain age can end their lives in exchange for free healthcare, education, and housing for their children. Fair exchange? Promoted through glossy ads and high-street clinics as convenient as coffee shops, the scheme even offers a “two-for-one” deal for couples. Philip Foster, recently redundant and father to three, is cornered by debt. Desperate to give his family a future, he secretly books into the sterile Freedom Clinic, where plastic flowers and cold efficiency set the tone. Dr. Mort, calm and courteous, helps him plan his death with unnerving precision—selecting funeral details, background music, and a simulated beach scene for his final moments. As Philip drinks the fatal potion, he faces the bitter irony of a world that commodifies compassion. Only after his body slumps do we discover Dr. Mort’s true nature - she’s an AI. Official Selection Urbanworld Film Festival 2025