Projects in genres: Action

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Yohana, a teenage girl from a remote community in the Norwegian Arctic must decide the fate of the oil worker who has killed her father. In just seven seconds, she must make a life and death decision that will not only mark her forever, but also determine the very future of her people. SEVEN unfolds in a stunning hinterland of rearing cliffs and vast seascapes, 50 miles within the Arctic Circle. Yet this is contested territory: outsiders are threatening a centuries old way of life as they seek to exploit the area’s natural resources. Funded by the British Film Institute, SEVEN occupies the liminal space where wilderness and culture, tradition and modernity collide. As the drama unfolds, nature looks on, silent, vast and implacable.

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In the small town of Quaint, Bruce Levin owns a respectable B&B establishment. Sleeping around with various women behind his wife's back, he does not realise that his actions are soon to catch up with him in the form of a mysterious traveller, Sya.

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Lost in a deep mist, a lone fisherman boards an abandoned sailboat. Finding no signs of life, he emerges back on deck only to discover his own boat has disappeared. What follows is a nightmarish journey in which he becomes imprisoned inside as the boat presses on into unknown waters.

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A young detective is torn apart after his wife ends up in a coma while hunting a serial-killer at the same time.

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After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, down on his luck William (age 27) outsources his end to Leslie (age 65) an ageing assassin with a good heart but a shaky gun-hand. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"

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In a post-Brexit UK, a young woman making ends meet as a waitress gets cut from her job for cheaper labor. Against the backdrop of the bubbling rage of the immigration question we see the young woman set out for revenge to set her mind at rest. As she tools up she finds herself going through the fleeting moments of fury, resentment, solace, and forgiveness. A story about expectations, presumptions, and the kindness reality can have.

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Two men of different ages meet for the strangest encounter of their lives. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - North America premiere

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Margaret Powers, a middle aged, middle class doctor of pathology, seeks a path of vengeance when she captures and tortures the young man she believes murdered her son, but in a bid to extract a confession, that path to vengeance leads to tragedy and unearths deeply troubling truths. Margaret is helped by Zoe, a twentysomething recovering addict, who was once a lover of Margaret’s son, and has learned to survive on her instincts and wits. Together Zoe and Margaret, who under ordinary circumstances would have nothing in common, kidnap Finn O’Neil, the son of an old school, local gangster. Finn, having managed to escape justice through his father’s influence, is held in a disused, derelict shipyard, a haven where junkies and prostitutes take their clients, patrolled by a pair of mismatched night watchmen. As Margaret’s plans and Zoe’s true motivation are slowly revealed, shocking facts emerge and the characters are drawn into a violent and horrifying conclusion.

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In a futuristic Los Angeles a nurse runs an underground hospital for the city's most sinister criminals. She discovers that one of her patients is actually there to assassinate another.

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Oppressed by her overbearing and violent stepfather, a young woman takes revenge into her own hands.

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Two friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. Nothing could prepare them for what follows. Father-to-be Vaughn and his lifelong friend Marcus head to an isolated, struggling Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. After a first night of heavy drinking with the villagers, the men head out on a misty autumnal morning, into a vast forest. When Vaughn tries to shoot a deer, a fatal accident happens. Instead of hitting the animal, his bullet rips into a child in the distance. The men make the fateful decision to cover up the tragic incident. But piece by piece, their secret unravels as they become stranded in the village and sucked into a never-ending nightmare. As the locals close in on the truth, Vaughn is drawn into a series of increasingly unbearable and impossible moral choices that place both his survival and his family at stake. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Four eager contestants arrive onto the set of a brand new reality show beaming live 24/7 over the internet. With no-one there to meet them and locked inside with no connection to the producers, their initial exuberance slowly fades away and they're forced to face up to the doubts and growing concerns about the show's true framework.