Projects in genres: Drama

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Torn between loyalty to his father and hope for his children, a man struggles to reassess his criminal life. Three generations of the Cutler family live as notorious outlaws among some of the wealthiest lands in Britain. They spend their time hunting, raiding large estates and tormenting the police. In the midst of it all, Chad (Michael Fassbender) finds himself torn between respect for his father (Brendan Gleeson) and a desire for a better life for his children. The law is cracking down on his clan, and the decision might not be his to make... Original score written by The Chemical Brothers. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Thrill Strand

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A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality. Begining on Louis Drax's 9th birthday, when he miraculously survives a near fatal fall. His doctor Allan Pascal finds himself tangled between his professional responsibility and his growing affections for the boys mother a fragile young beauty. When Louis's father comes under suspicion, Pascal realizes other mysterious forces may be at work.

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A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

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In an attempt to revisit a creative collaboration and revive his marriage, a theatre director brings together a group of performers to spend a week with him and his wife in an isolated, mountainous part of southern France. As the work progresses, fiction and reality become blurred and there is a constant tension between the characters' own lives and the nature of the work - an investigation into the changing nature of love. The couple are haunted by memories and dreams which, in the end, threaten not only the venture but the marriage itself. All this is underpinned by a sense of melancholy, reflected in the songs and music performed, and in the dramatic and implacably beautiful landscape. “Will it come like a change in the weather...... O tell me the truth about love” WH Auden

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In a major moment in her life, Addy experiences the death of a family pet – only for her grievance to be met by an unsympathetic father.

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An intergenerational film, focusing on Nina, a young Indian girl who’s working through all the outcomes she could face by telling her parents about her Black Jamaican boyfriend. She’s definitely made up her mind to do it today, tonight. Nothing is going to stop her this time. Nothing.

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A cordial parents evening at a secondary school descends into accusations and chaos when a teacher finally meets the mother of his difficult student.

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The self-broadcasted life of a young woman unfolds before, during and after a heinous attack.

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A reinterpretation of Shakespeare's Othello; an exploration of Shakespeare's intentions when writing Othello, exploring the play's racial themes in a historical and contemporary setting and drawing wider parallels between immigration and blackness in the UK today. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand

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Wayward pop star turned film composer Sir Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: To deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as High Master. Freighted in to lead his struggling alma mater through the rising tides of university fees, student unrest and political correctness, he neglects his hypochondriac wife and ungovernable teenage kids to turn upside down the institution he is meant to rescue. But it is not from his misspent youth as an undergraduate at St Jude’s and not from the modern student body that his biggest trial emerges, but from the kitchens, where a time bomb ticks amongst the migrant college staff in the dazzling cellist Anastasiya, who remembers more about him than he does. His Requiem lays nothing to rest. Not his libido. Not even his conscience.

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The story of a lonely writer who learns what it is to be human by interacting with a machine known as the Emotional Motor Unit.

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Margaret must convince her daughter Louise to take responsibility for the family after the death of her father, whilst the family endures the ritual of a family portrait.