Projects in genres: Comedy

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Reclusive widower Roy (BAFTA Winner David Bradley) passes the days by cold calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara (Oscar Winner Rachel Shenton), an unlikely friendship is born.

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Socially awkward and environmentally conscious teenager, AJ, has a few things on her mind. Mostly how the methane from all the cows is destroying the planet, and how she would rather be anywhere in the world than on holiday with her painfully normal family. On discovering that there’s no Wi-Fi, AJ is determined to have the worst week of her life, but her plan comes unstuck when she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine-smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla. In this charming coming of age tale, AJ falls in love for the first time, and back in love with her own family.
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021 - Audience Award Winner

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A surreal, comedy-noir about waking up to life: When Lily, a disconnected, neurotic, ‘wellness'-freak, has a brush with death, she comes face-to-face with her greatest fear. But Death appears to Lily as a femme fatale and Lily finds herself unexpectedly giddy with desire...
Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQI+ Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

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Horror-comedy short based on an improbable pub tale from the North East of England. A man walking home from his local one night is tormented by a terrifying sound: The Nicky Nack. Starring Alun Armstrong.

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Alfred Rott’s (Timothy Spall) reputation as a womanizing, foul-mouthed right wing genius follows him like a late afternoon shadow. After falling out with authorities over a new Arts Centre in Brussels, Rott is invited to an exclusive orgy where he is handed a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to visit the wealthy and eccentric recluse on the island of Malta who calls himself 'The Grand Duke Of Corsica'. The Grand Duke (Peter Stormare) commissions Alfred to build him a personalized mausoleum in preparation for his own death.
A malaria outbreak on the island causes the entire population to flee. Fires break out and pandemonium ensues. Alfred must remain however, to finish the project that may be the greatest, yet most invisible, creation of his remarkable career.

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Deon Williams is missing. And he's not the first. Deon’s mates have their theories on who it might be, always bringing it back to the figures of authority who make their lives difficult. But there is one suspect that stands out the most - the shady proprietor of the rundown chip shop on the edge of the estate with the lisp and unusual skin condition. Something just ain’t right about him. Deon’s brother Junior, resolves to go in and find out the truth.

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Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbours to chip in their meagre earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.

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Progressive muscle relaxation, Lycra, spoken word. As Michael seeks novel ways to halt his spiralling depression, a moment of hope arrives via an unexpected source.

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A mother and daughter float in life pods in deep space, and battle to keep each other alive, and awake, during their own intergalactic lockdown.

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Plants were used in 1970s suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours, or so rumour has it. What went on behind closed curtains? This hybrid documentary explores the truth in the botanical myth.
A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend.

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Even a global Pandemic can't stop Xmas going ahead.

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ART CLASS is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title, favouring wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress.