Projects in genres: Drama

Synopsis

Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, is navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
San Sebastian Film Festival 2024 - Winner - Silver Seashell for Best Director
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition
BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Winner - Sutherland Award for Best First Feature
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

Synopsis

In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

A retired boxer returns to the ring for one last shot at the title but only if he can make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight loss programme with an unscrupulous trainer.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - World premiere

Synopsis

A Golden Age-style musical about one of the last families alive on Earth. When the sudden arrival of a young stranger threatens the family’s luxurious compound deep underground, the son of the family begins to question their seemingly perfect existence.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - Canadian premiere
Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
A new adaptation of Homer’s classic ‘The Odyssey’.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

Synopsis

The profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s extraordinary 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged south west coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the remarkable and impulsive decision to walk, and find that, in nature, there can be solace, acceptance, and a true sense of home.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - World premiere

Synopsis

A couple fall in love after a chance encounter, build a home, start a family, and face difficult truths.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

Synopsis

Anna returns home to her family’s farm, but her mother is rattled by the unexpected visit.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Short Film Competition

Synopsis

On the Isle of Sheppey, two boys try to enjoy a last day together. Their adventures are captured by Gabriel, who has cerebral palsy, on an old camera. But as the day goes on, fears about the future cloud their friendship.

Synopsis

A journey of a woman overcoming fear of not being accepted: from her desire to correspond to societal standards to finally accepting that she is ‘not normal’ and that the only acceptance she needs is the self-acceptance.

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A recovering sex addict sits on the edge of a beach car park, looking to cruise. While on an addiction helpline, and with a husband patiently waiting at home, one last temptation pulls him deep into a surreal psychosis. Deeper into the sand dunes. Deeper into himself.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Synopsis

After preparing for her first night of motherhood in the postnatal ward bathroom, Thea rushes to soothe her crying baby. But when Mother interrupts Thea’s moment of maternal bliss and claims that the baby latched onto her breast is her own, Thea is forced to admit her mistake.