Projects in genres: Drama

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As Adam's family plan to send him away, he is haunted by surreal memories of his past, which unravel to reveal the tragic beauty of love, loss, grief and death.

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There's only so much crap a young boy is willing to take. But knocked down six times, he'll get back up seven. Picked on by teachers and pupils alike, even a cringeworthy school talent show doesn't phase him. Meet Paddy. He's cooler than you!

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Greta Walsh, has been a sufferer of Agoraphobia - the fear of meeting people for about a year. She has been confined to the boundaries of her flat with her boyfriend, since she was attacked in an alley a year ago - the culprit was never caught. Greta is becoming increasingly sure of who the attacker was. On a Christmas eve, feeling solitary and helpless, she confides in her close friend Harvey T'ang who visits to see her, about the discovery. But a series of visits at her flat soon leave the friends in a spiral that is set to make this quiet Christmas eve more challenging than they had anticipated.

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An unspoken incident unravels the lives of two families into nightmare, fracturing time and memory.

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In rural England, two men try, in very different ways, to secure the love of their beautiful Grace - one by trying to make her happy, the other by ensuring that she never will be.

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Sonja lives a lonely life as a fishmonger, more at ease with her fish than her customers, until one day a delivery man turns up who looks like a rainbow trout.

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Ray has spent his life on the river, an oasis from the chaos of on-shore pains. But gobby workmate Kenny’s arrival pushes him to set off towards the ocean. Fearing the worst, Kenny goes in pursuit, but his lack of planning may mean the end of this unlikely duo.

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in 1979 David's younger brother Simon disappeared without a trace and has never been seen since. 30 years later his brother David is still looking, this is: The Search for Simon.

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A shadow born on a small planet finds itself very alone, except for the sun. Both sides try to connect but the outcome is not as they expect.

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Joseph and Brenda have been married for fifty years and are living out their retirement in Nimes. Their daily routine, of letter writing and dinner at the same restaurant, has somewhat taken the shine off their permanent vacation. When they meet holidaying couple Mark and Suzanne, Joseph can't help the sudden, irrevocable change to his mundane world (EIFF).

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A middle-aged art historian returns to the Irish seaside village where, as a boy, he and his family spent their holidays. His visit triggers a series of memories, some romantic, some disturbing, of a summer that saw the awakening of sexuality and an unexpected tragedy. John Banville adapted his Man Booker Prize-winning novel to provide the script for this haunting and superlatively acted film.

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1970's Blackhill, Glasgow: 11-year-old Paul Ferris has learned quickly that life on the street is tough. Everyone knows their place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. Growing up immersed in a culture of crime, Ferris finally snaps when tormented one too many times by a vicious gang of bullying neighbourhood brothers who have made his childhood a living hell. Now in his late teens, despite his father's advice and in the frustrated knowledge that the law enforcement and police do nothing to help, he decides to take on his tormentors alone and systematically wreak vengeance on them.