Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A woman, Sarah, drives through the night, back and forth, visiting her dying mother. She smokes, listens to advice on the mobile phone but most of all she thinks and dreams. Will her mother live or die and which outcome does she long for most? One thing is certain: she and her mother have never seen eye to eye, never even been able to share a joke.

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Why shoudn't a young girl walk home alone? This dark little tale plays on our anxieties about girls walking through the countryside alone but this little girl has a powerful secret.
 

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Trying to save his image from the tabloids, a rising pop star takes all his relatives with him to an exotic island - to kill them.

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Ben, a sensitve and small 11-year-old, faces bullying at school and neglect at home. His mother can barely cope with her own problems and is completely insensitive to those of her son. Ben becomes deeply traumatised when an associate of his mother's locks him in an isolated warehouse overnight in an attempt to force her to work. Driven beyond endurance by the harsh adult world he lives in, the child finds a chilling resolution to his problems.

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A personal document of the director's ancestral pilgrimage. She went to Poland in search of her missing uncle, Meilich Last. The film attempts to retrace the remnants of the spiritual and ghostly presence of the vanished world of her cultural origins. 

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A short film about a young, shy boy named Will, who is on work experience at an Employment Centre. Will has a unique and special gift giving him a deeper insight and understanding into the lives of people he encounters during his day. These visions contrast sharply with the preconceptions of his colleague, Prakash, who is showing Will 'the ropes'. However, when a man wearing a jinxed watch visits the centre Will is forced to act on his supernatural instincts.

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Frank (Peter Mullan) determines to salvage his self-esteem and to tackle his demons by attempting the ultimate test of endurance - to swim the English Channel. On a Clear Day is a classic blend of comedy and high drama, an inspiring tale of triumph over adversity that will touch you and leave you wanting more.

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First kiss. A moment repressed? The story is about a woman named Sim in her mid-twenties. Sim is happy with her life and has a good relationship with her girlfriend. Then, out of the blue she gets an unexpected call from her childhood love, Maya, who is now married.

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A young surfer is caught between his dominating mentor and his passion for a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Despite warnings that she could be the sea goddess of death, he is drawn into her ambiguous world of pain and pleasure. A dangerous, erotic journey of surf, sex and ritual tattoo.

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Nora Meyer, a British Jew, accompanies New York’s ‘Friends Of Israel’s Defence Force’ on their annual military tour of the West Bank; a bizarre journey to the very heart of 21st Century Zionism.

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Salt of the Earth explores one facet of Trinidad's culture through this ancient music tradition called Parang and the ones who make it survive, the parrenderos and Holly Betaudier, a fantastic television producer and presenter.
 
The music sets the pace for the discovery of the island's beauty, its history, its landscapes and its people. This is a journey into Trinidad's past to better understand how an English speaking country has managed to keep and continue a Spanish tradition imported hundreds of years ago.

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Sometimes having to say sorry  means having to leave yourself behind.