Projects in genres: Drama

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Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the wild Orkney Islands after more than a decade away. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her childhood merge with the more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - Panorama - European premiere
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024

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Aspiring actress Sarah faces a power struggle in an intense audition for 'Dinner With My Family,' directed by the formidable Laura. The film delves into the cutthroat pursuit of perfection in the world of auditions.

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Set against the backdrop of the iconic Manchester skyline, TREADING WATER tells the story of Danny as he is released from prison into the tough reality of supported housing, as he tries to take control of his life whilst dealing with the mental health issues that have shaped him. How a chance encounter with a past love becomes an obsession that leads to tragic consequences. How all choices are limited to what is in front of you, even when that means no choice at all. And how we are all ultimately just trying to get by each day, even if sometimes it feels like we are only treading water.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Exploring the intricate dynamics between two brothers in their early twenties as they attempt to navigate their divorced parents’ shortcomings, when Mum shows up uninvited to Dad’s birthday barbecue.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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An old farmer works his land like he always has, though his powers are waning. He loves his flock and his farm, even though the work is gruelling, and the seasons are getting harder to weather. He’s tied to the land that his forefathers farmed before him. But who will he leave it to in turn, when the time finally does come, for him to let go? His son and his daughter are both unfit, in their own ways, to take over. His daughter knows farming, but she doesn’t know sacrifice. His son’s only interest in the farm is as a property to sell, not as a repository of a family’s history, a lineage of their connection to the land. His children bicker over this inheritance, while he quietly, stoically, phlegmatically, with what is left of his powers, continues his long indentureship to the land.
Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A therapist from Berlin University of the Arts navigates delicate emotional terrain as she provides solace to a bereft student grappling with a peer's suicide on campus.

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After a day's work doesn't end as planned, Dee finds a creative way of feeding his inexperienced colleague, and entertains them in the process. An immigrant story with a piano and shellfish.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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After witnessing her people suffer cruelty and oppression at the hands of Roman invaders, a young tribal woman named Énna takes up spear and shield in hopes of saving her family and homeland. What follows is a desperate last stand that gives rise to myth and legend.

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On average, an adult makes about 35,000 conscious decisions each day. Harvey Greenfield struggles with every single one. 
Harvey is a middle-aged office drone with a knack for always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He breaks the fourth wall to release his unstoppable nervous energy and invites the audience to bear witness the ridiculously hectic schedule that lies before him; an important meeting at his failing publishing company, purchasing a second-hand car, his best friend - who he barely knows - is getting married, he’s overdue a visit to his guilt-trip champion of a mother, an unknown number keeps calling to say someone has died, Alice - his girlfriend, a primary school teacher with bold stage aspirations - is debuting her latest masterpiece, and more. Harvey’s double whammy of mortal fears - making choices and letting people down - means he can’t help but take it all on in one day.
The film, adapted from the critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show, follows this indecisive people pleaser running late for the world's busiest day as his misguided decisions escalate towards a single choice that risks everything he holds dear.

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The path of a driven woman dramatically collides with an undocumented homeless man one night in London. As their secrets are revealed, which one of them is truly lost and who really needs saving?
Nominated for the 2023 Iris Prize Best British short film.
The film was broadcast on Channel 4 TV and will be streaming on the channel 4 online platform until October 2024.

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After a decade of imprisonment, Aminah draws on the support of other women at a halfway hostel, whilst preparing for her release into the wider world.
Official Selection Leeds International Film Festival 2023

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A young jazz pianist and a double bass player are living a harmonious idyll until one of their flautist friends moves in with them in their small Parisian apartment.
Official Selection Kigali Cine-Junction 2024 - International premiere