Projects in genres: Drama

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To the outside world looking in, Jack’s not well. Brooding, disheveled, troubled, he’s been in and out of secure units all of his young life, had every drug they can think of, every treatment they can throw at him but nothing seems to work. Not because he doesn’t want it to, there’s nothing he’d like more than to live a normal life and be left alone. But as far as Jack is concerned there’s nothing wrong with him, it’s them - the dead - they’re the ones who won’t leave him alone.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Residents of a fictional Welsh community share stories and poems of their life in their seaside town.
An adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ much loved classic of modern British poetry.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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When an encounter with the swinging scene has an unexpected impact on David's impotence, Alice thinks she might have found the solution to all their problems, but the poly-amorous world is a difficult place for a love story to flourish.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.

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Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food passed the sell-by date.
He journeys south from Scotland, on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Lydia is given a trip to a desert island as a wedding gift by her wealthy surgeon fiancé. But while waiting for him she meets reclusive and misshapen author Helmut, who starts to exert a strange control over her.
International feature-length version of Jake Chapman's TV series adaptation of his 2008 debut novel
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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If we have been remiss in our life, and hurt the people we most love, is it ever too late to redress the balance? Ray, a lonely old boxer, desperately estranged from his son, records his loves, his regrets, and his greatest life lessons to a camera in an empty boxing gym. His is the desperate hope that no estrangement is permanent, and that it is never too late to say sorry.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Barney Thomson, an awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity. His uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he accidentally enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Barney's mother Cemolina isn't much help either, she has a dark secret of her own to keep hidden. And what about police inspector Holdall who's started to sniff around the case?
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Filmed over 5 years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom in the West. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.
Winner, Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015

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Maisie and Daisy McCormack are two ordinary 12-year-olds finding their way through life in the 21st century. Oh, and they may have just hijacked a movie.

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A moment sucked and pulled through every dimension, turned up and out and shaken almost to pieces.
It’s the morning after, and Karen isn’t sure what she thinks. As the present moment jumbles in her mind with fragments of what happened the night before, she’s close to something like madness.

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In a post-apocalyptic world, where the reason for its cause is unknown, we get to follow a mans search for other human existence. He soon notices strange occurrences around him and falls deeper into a monophobic state of mind. What has become of the others?