Projects in genres: Drama

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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.

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Bricks is a short film about the clash between a city broker (Blake Ritson) and the tough builder (Jason Flemyng) he hires to renovate his wine cellar.

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An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

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In the city of London, Alex Powell is a successful banker running away from his past. When an injured young woman arrives at his front door his world spirals to the complex depths of their secret childhood together.

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Unable to fly the nest due to the economic crisis that grips Spain, a penniless, young couple have trouble consummating their fledgling relationship in their parents’ homes. As they become increasingly desperate to make love and with no money to afford a hotel, they are forced to look to popular public hotspots commonly used for sex among young people, known by the locals as “pikaderos”. However, things are never as easy as they seem, and their relationship is quickly tested as they try to break free from the shackles of a crumbling economy.

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Who needs a home and family when you've got four wheels?

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On her way back home from school, 14-year-old Sky (Alana Boden) is followed home, the rest is a blur. Her big sister Jessy-May (Jessica Barden) a tough, isolated 16-year-old attempts to protect her family the only way she knows how.

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In the dead of night a security guard offers to help a distressed and fleeing girl. Hesitant at first, and despite her lack of English she, accepts his help. Is he the good samaritan he appears to be? And is the girl what she appears to be?

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Roger, a documentary director and his crew follow the whimsical street magician Vincent Legrand as he plans to perform an epic final trick before retiring. However, things go out of hand and they realise that the whole plan could be an act to fool the crew, the world, and maybe even himself.

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Two brothers living in a caravan on someone else’s land have their lives turned upside down with the arrival of a new landowner.

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Fresh from a successful film festival, a super smooth movie producer returns to a day at the office, where in just eight hours, his infidelities, his addictions, and his dodgy finance deals come crashing down and ludicrously unravel threatening his success, his marriage, his life and even stranger, his reality.