Projects in genres: Drama

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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

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'Loving' celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – making their love story an inspiration to couples everywhere.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Gala Presentations

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The tale Sophie- a young girl, the Queen of England and a benevolent giant known as The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant), who set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.
Based on Roald Dahl's beloved and best-selling novel.
Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Out of Competition

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In 1970s Los Angeles a down-on-his-luck private eye, Holland March and hired enforcer, Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Official Selection Cannes 2016 - Out of Competition

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A tale about love faced with darkness.