Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Lost in a daydream, an innocent young man gets a come-on from a sexy siren. Engaged in the pursuit of this bewitching vision, a lost shoe invites a display of athletic daring from our lovestruck hero. A story of desire and determination. "Cinderella with a twist".

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One soundtrack runs simultaneously to three visual narratives, as snatched moments bring back memories of a younger self. A film about time and growing up.

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Annie wants to find her cat and forget her past. She walks the streets of the East End of London, in the footsteps of Josef Stalin and Mahatma Gandhi. Annie's obsessive journey through local history triggers an unravelling of her own life.

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A passionate love story between two brilliant minds, the American poet Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Britain's Poet Laureate.

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A small boy wishes he could be taller. A modern fairytale that follows a young boy's ingenious way of dealing with his 'height', the end result is not the one he imagined.   This is a 'coming of age' tale in which a young boy finds himself and blossoms into adulthood.

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When The Bridge of San Luis Rey breaks, five travellers are precipitated into the gulf below. Was it chance or the hand of God that brought these five together at that fatal time in that place? Or were they in some way responsible, themselves, for what happened? These questions are raised with uncynical compassion and answered by Wilder with an indirect affirmation of the power of love.   Set in early 18th century Peru at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, this timeless story of delicately interwoven lives traverses worlds as diverse as the theatres, convents, brothels and docks of Lima, Peru to the sea-faring explorations, scientific institutions and courts of Madrid, Spain.   'Soon, we too shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten, there is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.' (Thornton Wilder, 1927)

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October 1985. Four young Palestinians - Omar, Mamoud, Rambo and Molqi - are lined up against a wall in an Italian police station. Marilyn Klinghoffer, an American woman, walks into the room and faces the men. She spits into the face of one of them, who glares back at her defiantly.   The film is a screen adaptation of John Adams' opera, based around the hijacking in 1985 of a cruise liner by Palestinian gunmen. The narrative is interspersed with flashbacks providing historical background and perspective to the event.

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Combining animation and live action, The House tells a story of a group of women with mental health problems. Through their own drawings it highlights aspects of their everyday lives, their dreams and aspirations, who they are and what they have been.

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An actors lonely attempt to be seen for a part in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare. By sending a series of letters to the casting director we see him slowly become more desperate, irrational and ultimately threatening, while never losing his enthusiasm.

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A reclusive man's possessive love for a beautiful song bird has unexpected consequences, proving that true love cannot be caged.

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One man's attempt to realise his dreams in the midst of the English countryside. Richard White is determined not to allow parking restrictions, his jealous crippled wife or reclusive neighbours to stand in his way of mounting a fully fledged production of a Mozart opera in his living room.

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On a hot day a small girl searches for something to do. Aimlessly she walks into the path of a stranger.