Projects in genres: Drama

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Finding her feet on day one of her job as a life model, the young muse draws courage from years of girl guide training. Promising ‘to do her best’, standing nude in front of strangers, a most untimely event occurs that undermines her conscientious sense of duty.

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An innocent girl’s world is upturned when an ancient evil stalks her family. An attempt by a religious sect to rid the evil, ends in catastrophe, having far reaching consequences for her and other lives. THE ATTACHMENT is a story which draws the audience into a mystery that intertwines five lives across 30 years. Initially focusing on the life of two characters and their fate, the story begins in the fall of 1989, within the leafy suburbs of London, United Kingdom. A young girl Abigail Morozov becomes the focus of paranormal entities which she calls "night people" . These entities continue their intrusions, causing her great distress. The film picks up the story, as Abigail's parents in desperation , call on the aid of a peculiar religious sect known as the "Keppers De Masura" to help rid Abigail of the intrusions. Things end horribly of course, and an orphaned Abigail is left to deal with the ramifications of that fateful decision. At its core, the attachment presents a theme of fear, tragedy, guilt, love and
redemption.

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Alex, a hapless and hopeless romantic, who has worked the graveyard shift of an isolated petrol station for longer than he cares to remember. In the early hours, as Alex readies himself to embark on another flight of fancy, a customer appears who might just change his world forever.

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Given an extraordinary gift by his wife, Michael struggles to come to terms with the situation he finds himself in.

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A woman struggles with her grey hound. Her partner struggles to understand.

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The stories of a lonely widower and a precocious young girl unexpectedly converge with the help of a chicken suit.

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The Waves is a short animated film inspired by an artist, who after returning home from hospital having suffered a mental breakdown, attempts to describe the thoughts that wash over him as he returns to work.

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A polite and mysterious spiritual missionary becomes mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.

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Visionary award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold makes her first US-set film with the story of a teenager who falls into a life on the road.
Star (Sasha Lane), a teenage girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Finding her feet in this gang, one of whom is Jake (Shia LaBeouf), she soon gets into the group's lifestyle of hard-partying nights, law-bending days and young love.
Official Selection Cannes 2016 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations

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17-year-old Pixie and her friends have spent the last few months delving into a strange new world of experimentation. When unfamiliar Blondie arrives at the dying end of the summer, the gang's routine is set to change as Pixie begins to struggle with unexpected feelings.
Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life.
He crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations
Winner - Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2016

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An immigrant man living in the idyllic Cotswolds takes a rather radical route towards integrating into British society.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Short Cuts