Projects in genres: Drama

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Rise Again focuses on a number of men who are asylum seekers from Afghanistan. Discovering and inhabiting the wood proximate to the asylum center in which they live, they step outside of their prescribed roles as refugees and engage in voluntary social activities within this oasis, surrounded by highways at the edge of town. By combining allegorical imagery with martial arts elements, played and documentary scenes, the video develops a narrative structure in which these men appear in enfolding transformation.

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Ashes is a contemporary film noir about a difficult relationship between father and son.

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Kevin, an inept young would-be criminal, needs money fast to pay back the local crime lord, a sword-wielding sociopath. Breaking into the home of an eccentric recluse seems to Kevin a likely plan, until the enraged old man unexpectedly shows up with a gun. The strange bond that forms between these two misfits becomes the premise of this unusual comedy-drama.

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A businessman named Basil and his chauffeur, Nick, drive into the heart of the Rocky Mountains in the midst of perilous weather conditions. When the journey becomes potentially fatal, Basil must decide whether he's prepared to sacrifice his own life for the life of another. Based on Leo Tolstoy's Master And Man, Boxing Day will be the third film in a loose trilogy of modern day interpretations of Tolstoy short novels which started with Ivans Xtc and The Kreutzer Sonata.

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On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. 'Weekend' is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.

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A young woman who has been a member of the IRA alongside her brothers and husband becomes an informer for Britain's MI5.

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20 WAYS takes an entertaining and intelligent look at immigration, using humor to explore this contemporary global issue. Inspired by an absurd US article that proposed twenty ways to spot illegals. 20 Ways looks at the danger of profiling through the experience of a Jewish family in 1930's Europe.

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Following several tragic events, Jo and Amy attempt to come to terms with their new life as another Christmas in the care system approaches. Using audio interviews with brother and sister, Jo and Amy we listen to their memories as they deal with loss, separation and acceptance.

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An up-beat comic extravaganza involving the family of a football obsessed grandfather, a women's fitness centre manager and mother, a dodgy car dealer and twin daughters lifeguards.

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How well do you know yourself and those you love? Returning home from work, Mia witnesses an aged woman leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredded pieces from a beloved photograph of herself and her former lover Ludwig. Highly unnerved, Mia begs Max, the building's all-knowing custodian, to let her into the deceased woman’s flat. While inside this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes the contents as her own. Confused and disturbed by what lies before her, she bolts back and forth in time where she is forced to realize it was her very own life that ended before her. Now, the only way to safeguard her future is to go back to her past and confront the man she loves deeply but dreads most.

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In a small rural community of the remote Upper Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, two young sisters struggle with the onset of separation. As they try to make sense of their changing world we slowly discover a lost world where development threatens to tear the sisters apart.

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A 13 year old girl in Salford craves the unconditional love of her own child, until one day and a fateful moment - she makes the decision to steal a baby.