Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A curated collection of 12 people's real tributes and thoughts about saying farewell for the last time; from unsent letters, eulogies, and sentences, it is an epitaph to those awaiting that bittersweet closure, and a chance to express sweet words left unsaid.

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In her debut feature documentary, a cinematic love letter spanning time and generations, Chloe Abrahams probes at raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past. THE TASTE OF MANGO centres three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and Abrahams herself. Their intertwined stories testify to the ever-changing nature of inheritance and the ways in which we both hurt and protect the ones we love. A vital look at the far-reaching effects of male violence and a personal meditation on family, memory, identity, solidarity, joy, and love. Official Selection True/False Film Festival 2024- World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Winner - Audience Award for Best Documentary BIFA (British Independent Film Awards) 2023 - Winner - Best Debut Director

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Mel, a young Black lesbian, enraged at being wrongfully jailed, casts a spell during her overnight stay in a cell-block to tip the power balance between herself and the Police. A disturbing look at racialised misogyny and its violent counterpart through a black, female gaze.

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Flipping the 'Essex Girl' trope, this coming-of-age film explores Black British girlhood and magical female friendships in 2009 Essex. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024

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In excavating her own body, Beth confronts her own intrusive perversions in this dystopian reimagining of the body’s extinction.

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Ex-Muslim, Ollie, is haunted by their past when they meet a handsome stranger on a night out... Desire, paranoia and transgression straddle the intersection of religion and sexuality in this neo-noir horror.

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‘A true mockery of nature…’ Claire grapples with the rejection of conditional love from a perfidious lover in this subversive religious horror.

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Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as her chaotic supernatural flatmate Bug. A dark comedy animated short, narrated by Rachel Jackson, about accepting the long-term effects of disability. Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2023 Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023

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Returning to her coastal hometown for the 1997 general election, a young girl reunites with her school friends and is forced to come to terms with the loss of her mother. On the cusp of adulthood, she faces a new millennium, and with it the promise of a new age.

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STOLEN is the story of women who had the misfortune to fall pregnant ‘out of wedlock’ in an Ireland that heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. Over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in institutions run by nuns from 1922 to 1998. Mothers and babies were cruelly separated shortly after birth with thousands of babies taken for adoption and their birth records rendered untraceable. 9,000 infants died from 1922 to 1998, a rate sometimes five times the national average. Others were fostered out as cheap farm labour from the age of six. It was a history that was largely ignored until the discovery that 796 babies had died between 1925 and 1961 in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home alone. Evidence of tiny remains found in an underground sewage plant on the site of the former home caused outrage and alarm escalated over what happened in other institutions such as Bessborough in Cork and Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary where more children died without burial records. The Irish government announced an investigation into Mother and Baby homes. Survivors relate their experiences of cruelty and loss and of happier outcomes in some cases, interwoven with historical analysis and artists’ responses to what happened. Official Selection London Irish Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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When a workaholic city detective and her laid-back partner try to stop a disheveled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die. Official Selection Sitges International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Three Zimbabwean spirits descended to earth on a mission to connect with their descendants. Worried they are being forgotten they embark on a mission to initiate their descendants into a Ndebele cultural ritual. Will the appearance of spiritual beings see Selina fleeing rather than coming closer to who she is? Official Selection Pan African Film Festival 2023