Projects in genres: Drama

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A story about monsters, moon-walks and what happens to your imaginary friend when you make your first real one.

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Eighty year-old arachnophobe Tessa starts believing a giant spider is stalking her in the night. Daughter Lucy prepares to cope with her mother's slide towards dementia, but if the strange scratching noises in the house aren't being made by a spider.

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Salwa, Serge and Andrew, three people living separate lives, are diagnosed with terminal diseases; their paths cross when they attend a group therapy session where they meet Milan, a manic depressive, and they become friends. Milan talks of suicide and tries to convince the others that it will save them from a slow and painful death. Salwa and Andrew, who were both deserted by their partners when their illnesses were discovered, are persuaded and Milan promises that their former partners will be punished. Serge remains sceptical but agrees to help his friends. Andrew takes an overdose, surrounded by his friends and days later Salwa takes her life in the same way. Serge makes a decision and confides in his girlfriend who stands by him. She learns of Milan’s plan to die and they pay him a visit and try and convince him he has much to live for as he is not facing a terminal illness.

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When two lonely neighbours develop an intimate relationship, life as they know it is revealed from a radically new perspective. Their evening routines become little performances for each other and in this way they experience a taste of the thing they both crave and fear the most - company.

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Set among the beehives and high heels, fur stoles and Ford Zephyrs of 60's and 70's London suburbia, My Amulet offers a personal take on Anglo-Jewish identity. Combining handheld Super 8 with current digital video footage, the film delivers poet Leah Thorn's spin on assimilation, acculturation and ‘other such aggravation’.

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In the run up to Christmas a 15-year-old boy whose mother is involved in a serious car accident, has a dream that she needs an angel's halo to be saved.

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My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times' from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.

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Set in a border town in rural Scotland, Native Son is about a troubled farm labourer struggling with loneliness and the need for human contact.

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Night. Shelter. Howling sounds interrupt the silence. Les, unable to sleep, takes action.

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A young couple break into an abandoned school. Strangers to one another they struggle to achieve the intimacy they desire.

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One man’s life spirals into uncertainty when the answer to all of his financial worries is placed at his feet. Continuing down the path he has chosen, Peter is forced to ask himself whether ‘opportunity’ is all it really seems.

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Imagine if London was controlled by the military and you had to go through specific checkpoints to go to school, go to work, visit your friends or go to the hospital. No Way Through brings the shocking reality of Palestinian life in the West Bank uncomfortably close to home.