Projects in genres: Drama

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In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.

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Shot over the course of five years, this documentary-style feature from prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom offers a masterful meditation on the daily travails of a family living apart from their imprisoned patriarch (TIFF 2012).

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Stella's beloved dog Frida has been sold. In a neighborhood where people have withdrawn into their cocoons, Stella must emerge from hers and take up a bizarre job if she wants to get Frida back.

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Ian (Ed Hogg), a charismatic new spatial orientation instructor, arrives at a topnotch school for the visually impaired. The head teacher hires Ian under condition that the children will not be exposed to any danger as they learn to move around by themselves.

Ian’s unconventional techniques intrigue the children and embolden them to explore their surroundings. But more than only teaching them how to move without a cane, Ian encourages his students to develop their vision of the world.

Among his students, a young woman called Eva (Alexandra Maria Lara), is withdrawn and secluded. Ian concentrates his efforts to make her overcome her shyness. He brings her outside the clinic without permission to help her rediscover the pleasures of life. Because of Ian’s insubordination, the Headmaster is forced to make him leave the clinic, to avoid putting the patients at any further risk.

The clinic administration tells the students that Ian ingeniously tricked them by using a sensor in his pocket. Eva and Serrano, one of Ian’s best students, have their doubts. Using Ian’s teachings, they decide one evening to leave the clinic to be confronted with the outside world and try to discover the truth about Ian.

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A twisted burglary, a failed revenge, and two mens search for the perfect women in each other.

James has gone bankrupt and in a bizarre mission to change himself for the better he tries cross dressing as a woman.

James "Im terrified of getting old and looking at some tight piece of heaven and feeling totally.... irrelevant."

School teacher, Gary, finds his parents murdered in their house after a bungled robbery.

Discovering a vital piece of evidence, Gary, finds the opportunity to avenge his parents murder, the unplanned attack results in him suffering life changing injuries of his own, forcing him to reevaluate his own life.

Just as James (now cross-dressing full time) and Gary's lives appear to be spiralling dangerously out of control, a chance meeting between the two men, brings them to discover a new perspective that is more liberating than either could have imagined.

But before James and Gary can move on from the painful decisions of their past, they need to make a few more about their future.

James "We are morally bound to teach this bitch (Zoe) a lesson, but first we have to get this garden done."

And these ones will kill.

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An unemployed stay at home dad begins venturing out at night. Befriended by a group of petty criminals and strippers, he begins to feel alive. But when he is implicated in a murder, he finds himself indebted to a psychotic gangster and is drawn into a world of violence that threatens his life and his family's safety.

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Self-made businessman Harry Papadopoulos has got it all; a mansion house; awards and a super rich lifestyle. However, on the eve of a property deal of a lifetime, a financial crisis hits and the banks call in their huge loans. Harry and his family lose everything in an instant. Everything, except the dormant and forgotten Three Brothers Fish & Chip Shop half owned by Harry’s larger than life brother Spiros - who's been estranged from the family for years.
With no alternative, Harry and his family, plant enthusiast James; fashion victim Katie; bookish Theo and their loyal nanny Mrs. Parrington, are forced to pack their bags, leave their millionaire lifestyle and join ‘Uncle Spiros’ to live above the neglected Three Brothers chippie.
Together they set about bringing the chip shop back to life under the suspicious gaze of the their old rival, Hassan, from the neighbouring Turkish kebab shop. Harry struggles with the banks to regain his lost business empire, but as the chip shop comes to life and old memories are stirred Harry and his family gradually discover that only when you lose everything are you free to discover it all.

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Set in the Cumbrian countryside, we see a young boy trying to help his parents deal with a loss which is slowly breaking down their lives.

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Fleeing from her own wedding Sarah (Phillipa Flynn) decides to do something wild and spontaneous for the first time in her life; hooking up with a brief encounter from her past, Henry (Matt E Hudson); a former test pilot running from his own problems, she offers him to join her on a road trip to Paris, but all does not go according to plan. This is not a journey this is story of finding yourself with a little help along the way.

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With the UK gripped by recession young people are being faced with more and more difficult choices just to get by, Micky's options are limited and the choice he makes effects those closest to him, Hannah his long term girlfriend and her brother, his best friend Sonny.

Ta Ta then is an evocative story of sacrifice, friendship and love.

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Desperate not to be like his father, a young boxer must fight everything he knows to stop history repeating.
Clayton Murdoch carries a terrible darkness inside him: as a boy he was exposed by his brutal father to violence, domestic abuse, gang culture and ultimately murder. Years later and with his father now in prison, Clayton struggles to overcome his past. In a city where every day there is a constant threat of violence and death, he keeps his sanity by channelling his aggression into boxing, the one part of his life where he feels powerful, in control, contained.
However, when the violence that surrounds him starts to destroy his own family, Clayton’s inner darkness is unleashed. And now, to gain vengeance against those who have taken his loved ones, he must ask the one man he fears the most for help: his father. With everything around him falling apart and the full shocking fury in him let loose, Clayton must look death in the face and find out who is the man inside.

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Time Lock is a tense, expressionistic crime thriller about chance and consequence, pride and self-deception. Mark Kerr is a jaded hotel manager with a gambling problem, sleepwalking through his life until he is tricked into facilitating a jewellery heist at the conference hotel where he works. Held in the basement of the hotel through the night, waiting for the time-lock on the safe to open, Mark's prospects of survival take a turn for the worse when his captor, Cal recognises him as a former teacher who was responsible for his expulsion from school fifteen years before. Mark must now face up to his failings as a man and rediscover his humanity if he is to placate his angry tormentor, protect the hotel staff and guests from harm - and survive the ordeal.