Projects in genres: Drama

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When Helena Fereníková was 19 years old and in the throes of labor with her first child, she was told to sign a document. Only afterwards did she realize she had authorized her own sterilization. Eleven years previously, the same happened to Elena Gorolová. Both women are fighting for justice. Helena has chosen legal action, and became the first Roma woman to win a case in Central Europe against the hospital that sterilized her in 2001. Elena addresses international audiences to ensure this never happens again.Helena and Elena's situations are a microcosm for the multiple sources of social injustice facing today's Roma. Through their poignant and unnerving stories, this film unearths the shocking anachronism of the practice of forced sterilization that continued long after the Communist mandate.

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Trip is an emotionally charged tale about a dad who tries to do the right thing by his two daughters but chooses the worst way to go about it.

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A disillusioned man is tired. Tired of being tired. Times come in a man's life when one wonders which doors were open, which remain closed, and those that are irreversibly locked

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Lazaro, a young trumpeter from La Havana, prepares to taske a music exam with a new trumpet mouthpiece. One day this mouthpiece disappears. Following its disappearance, Lazaro decides to look for his father, who is also a trumpet player.

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Two young foreigners living in a vibrant, hip squat in London's East End embark on separate quests. Axl is searching for his long-lost father. Vera seeks to mend a broken heart as she begins a sexy, playful relationship with a charismatic stranger.

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A Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on their wedding day in London. But this is not a standard Romeo and Juliet tale of forbidden love.

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We follow an eccentric local London character as he listens to his walkman and dances his way around town. While everyone else searched for the X factor he just loved the music.

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Wasted is an uncompromising and gritty film about two young lovers, Connor, a 17-year old street working male prostitute and his girlfriend Suzanne, a 16-year-old street-working prostitute. It is a picture of love and its pitiable fate in a loveless and harsh environment where the atmosphere is too sharp for even the tenderest of human life. An unforgettable, uplifting love story of 2 young people who cling to each other for hope and survival.

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Tired of his street gang's violence and criminality, Tom's plans for escaping to Paris are ruined by his mother's illness. However, whilst secretly staying at home to look after her, he devises an ingenious way of convincing gang leader Daryl of his departure.

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Katherine Mellor is a private investigator with the task of monitoring Michael, a businessman suspected of infidelity. For three days she follows his movements and interactions during his ‘business’ trip to Galway, gathering evidence that will incriminate the unsuspecting Michael.

However, when Katherine meets Tomas, an escort that she hires to provide cover for one evening, she realises that she has perhaps interpreted Michael’s situation incorrectly. What follows is a journey into her understanding of love, truth and faithfulness.

When faced with the reality that her spying will determine Michael’s future, Katherine is forced to make difficult decisions that put her own principles to the test.

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The dramatic true story of Rwandan school students, attacked by rebels in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide - whose refusal to betray each other cost some of them everything, but gave hope to a nation.

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A young woman struggling to make the life in London she wants must deal with an unexpected circumstance the only way she knows how and must come to terms with the fact that it will effect her more than she realises.