Projects in genres: Comedy

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Heather and Sarah Ann were inseparable when they were little. They told each other every secret. They knew they would be best friends forever... But then they grew up.
Now Heather is forced to return to her hometown when her father becomes ill. The cynical urbanite hates everything about the place she grew up – especially her bubbly childhood friend Sarah Ann. But Sarah Ann thinks they can be best friends again, and insists that Heather film the video for her dream wedding to a local policeman. Heather is convinced that the two young women have nothing in common – but what is going on between Sarah Ann and that handsome married man Heather once loved? And is Heather’s devil-may-care father really having an affair with Sarah Ann’s uptight mother, the wife of the Police Chief?
As the big day approaches Heather finds that no one is quite what they seem – especially the old friend she thought she knew better than anyone.
A rollicking comedy-drama about secrets and weddings – and best friends forever.

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Life’s a stage. And so is social media. When Claire checks her phone, her friends quite literally ‘pop up’ to tell her how good their lives are.

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ALREADY DEAD is a short documentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living "life" to the fullest. But have we truly come to accept Zombies?

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Amber and Nigel, seventeen-year-old daughter Liberty, and Amber’s father Michael, live in London. With Amber and Nigel both made redundant, they are no longer able to pay their mortgage. Facing repossession of their house, they decide to give everything up and go north to Scotland on a camping trip to contemplate their future. Liberty and Michael elect to stay behind until things take a turn for the worst, when Liberty sees her boyfriend with an other girl. She goes North with her Grandfather after all, only to discover her parents are living in a 'Green' New Age camp with ex hippies and oddball characters. Both parents get involved in the village anti wind farm campaign as a bid to fit in, whilst also placating the ex army New Age gang they encountered on the road. Liberty is unable to fit in with life at the camp in a tent. She ventures out to meet the locals in the village. Meanwhile grandfather has a heart attack and ends up in hospital. The family is broken and only Amber has the courage to put it together again. A film about loss and renewal.

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This is a story about a sweet seduction. Our fairy-tale starts when Caroline, a business woman, allows her desire for a doughnut to win over her months of dieting. But the first doughnut leads to a doomed diet, and so much more.

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Having crossed the Channel Tunnel, a desperate refugee finds two old tramps at a forest’s edge and has to help them with the body of their last night deceased alcoholic friend to gain trust, unaware of being followed by a policewoman.

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Captured by a Hollywood obsessed psycho living in a remote wood, a couple of illegal immigrants face a grisly end in the film he's making. Can Anya escape, turn the tables on their abductor and save Stefan from becoming literally a stiff in a freezer?

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A new assignment forces a top spy to team up with his football hooligan brother.
A new comedy from the creators of 'Borat'.

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A jet-black comedy about two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Or is he?
Berlinale 2016 - World premiere

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It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then – to patrol the Dover army base – is a great chance to revive spirits and reputation, that is until glamorous journalist Rose Winters arrives to write about their exploits, setting the pulses racing and putting the local women on red alert. MI5 then discover a radio signal sent direct to Berlin from Walmington-on-Sea. There’s a spy on the loose! The outcome of the war is suddenly at stake, and it falls to our unlikely heroes to stand up and be counted.

A cinematic remake of the classic British television sitcom 'Dad's Army'.

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A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Opening Film (Out of Competition)

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Tootega is a witch who ekes out an isolated existence on an iceberg adrift in the ocean. It's a miserable lot, and in Tootega's case, misery hates company! Derek is a merman – more fish than man really – who spends his days joyously rollicking around the ocean, oblivious to the fact that his dreadful singing is the very reason he remains friendless.
This is the story of what happens when these two unlikely characters come together, as Derek begins to unlock the painful secret Tootega has kept hidden for a long, long time…