Projects in genres: Drama

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Little Chandra walks through earthquake-hit Kathmandu with his grandfather, to visit his mother and newborn sibling in hospital. What awaits them at the end?

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A darkly comic fairytale about two elderly women who travel the countryside of rural Ireland, imagining the terrible, immoral lives people are living today. Their one consolation is the innocence of children…

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Iona and her teenage son seek refuge from a violent crime among a religious community on the island where she was born. Iona's return exposes her tormented son Bull to a way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager and sends a shock wave through the family she left behind. Scott Graham's follow up to his award-winning first feature Shell.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Eight-year-old Rose challenges a family in denial by setting out to find her mythical dying mother. A road movie taken on foot.
An intimate portrait of a family struggling to come to terms with their future, dramatizing an epic human dilemma. When time is running out for us, the environment and future generations, what choices of the heart must we make? What values do we cultivate?
Venice Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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George is suddenly thrust into a nightmare he can't escape. Now confronted with a difficult choice and relentlessly involving his friend Henry, they both have to decide on what move they make next.

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Harrison, a nice guy with a history of schizophrenia, battles the diverse and unpredictable voices he hears, a judgemental society and the hazards of social media as he attempts to make a new friend.

As a coping mechanism, he projects the voices into some of his childhood toys. These nagging, amusing, plain-spoken and occasionally disturbing voices are consistently unhelpful, especially when Harrison tries unorthodox methods in order to meet his ideal candidate for a new friend – the modelesque aspiring actress and social media addict, Amber.

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Morris is a recluse with psychotic tendencies, whose life changes when his innocent daughter Lauren rescues one of his victims and befriends him. Jake, an ordinary businessman, soon realises that he is stranded and his presence in the house gradually reveals unexpected and dark mysteries from the past.

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Bill tells the story of how hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his family and home to follow his dream. It’s a tale of murderous kings, spies, lost loves, and a plot to blow up Queen Elizabeth. Can one man prove the quill is mightier than the sword?

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The true story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first-ever person to successfully swim the English Channel - which he did in splendid form in 1875- equipped only with his moustache, doses of Brandy and a wire wool swimsuit.

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Soffia realizes that if you can't beat them, well then you better join them. In her quest to be accepted by the popular girls in her class, Soffia finds herself sacrificing her true friendships and morals. Whoever said that teenage girls were innocent - well, they were so wrong.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand

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'The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers' [the complete title of this piece] is partially inspired by Paul Bowles’ story 'A Distant Episode', and charts a mysterious transformation from observational making-of to inventive adaptation, shot against a staggering Moroccan landscape.
"Ben Rivers explores the illusion of filmmaking in Morocco... The Moroccan Sahara is littered with the legacy of films shot in its dramatic vistas: abandoned sets that reveal the artifice of filmmaking and trigger our recollection of the half-imagined spaces of familiar films from decades past." (Artangel)
Locarno Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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This film is about a man finding purpose for his life in the most unlikely place after years of self-destruction. Infested with gangrene, unable to walk, Josué was cast out of the traumatised streets of Juárez, México into the desert and dumped in a mental asylum run by its own patients. Assisted by people employing empathy as the only means of survival, Josué transcended near death - discovering compassion in his darkest hours. Six years later, Josué manages the asylum. He dreams of his estranged daughter in California - last seen 22 years ago. Trawling the Internet, Vanessa encounters her father in the trailer for this film. The reunion offers Josué possibility to repair his shattered past and start life afresh.