Projects in genres: Drama

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A Welsh family is in fear of their country which seems to have more mosques than McDonald's and terrorists lurking in every corner shop. The only person in the family trying to hold it all together is the mother, Karen. She has to deal with her layabout husband, who makes a joke about everything; her daughter, who no longer speaks to dad because she's fallen in love with an Indian and her son, who's secretly a racist thug. This funny and heartbreaking film deals with the paranoia of racism, the politics of hate and how it effects this family.

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Moses and Chalkie are brothers trapped in two very different worlds.

Chalkie never grew up, a childhood accident stopped the clocks for him when he was six, he's got an artist's touch and an eye bordering on genius, but not much else.  Mike the window cleaner is his friend, and has taken him in after one too many beatings from Moses. Mike looks after him and he may have just found a future and a way out of The Heights for young Chalkie, he's just praying Moses doesn't find out before tomorrow when the deal is signed. Tonight, Chalkie is out, just doin' his thing, adding his colours to the bricks and the slabs of Paradise Heights, where everybody is nice apart from his brother.

To most around here, Moses is King of The Heights, his girls know that and so do the punters. The streets are his bloodline. An eye for opportunity and a cold ruthless streak got him to the top around here. But some deals go bad and even Moses answers to someone. If he doesn't come up with what he owes soon, the King will fall. Trouble is the punters aren't biting and the girls are nervous because a serial rapist is doing the rounds. Moses instincts have never let him down though and he knows Mike is up to something. Maybe Chalkie is the answer to his problem. What he doesn't know is the word is already out to take him down tonight.

It's when you think it can't get any worse that luck usually has a part to play, and as the sun goes down over Paradise Heights, worlds start to collide.
 
 

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Low Tide tells the story of the last three days of a woman's life; Kathy is dying of cancer and is being nursed at home. Her husband Tom cooks and cares for her but is unable to offer her emotional support and keeps himself apart, playing his music or drinking with a recently widowed friend. Kathy forms a strong attachment to her visiting nurse, confiding in her about her past affairs, her ambiguous feelings towards Tom and her fear of death. Her closest friend comes to visit and a rift is healed; memories haunt her and eventually, after a painful confrontation, she and Tom attempt to come to terms with her infidelities, their unhappy marriage and the loss of their only child.

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A lonely station master in an isolated railway station endures ‘Maya’ (the illusory appearance of the sensible world) while within his soul there is a tortured moment of loss.

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Reggie lives in the near future, where modern medicine has evolved to prolong life indefinitely, courtesy of the Immortality (IMMO) Corporation. He is now a very old man, and has lost the memory of his past completely. When one day a shoe falls down from the shoeboxes stored high above him, he is given the chance to take back his most precious memory, a moment that he’d previously lost forever.

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An actress attends an audition only to be insulted and interrogated by the male casting director. Preparing to walk out, a female casting agent joins them to pacify the unsettling situation, temporarily.

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Danger, lust and fear combine in an erotic game. Carl is on the run from a gang intent on killing him. In desperation he seeks refuge in an expensive restaurant where a beautiful woman is dining alone. Cornered, he knows that one false move from either of them will cost him his life. But desire is about to lay its own subtle trap. Based on a short story by German cult writer Hans Herbst.

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A young couple, Jacqueline and Francis, meet a group of professionals for diner and become entangled in a symbolic discussion and sadomasochistic dance concerning the metrosexual man.

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Two sisters struggle to survive in a society of bright lights and 24-hour video walls, where sleep is illegal. When one refuses to take the tablets that keep everyone awake, the other must choose between the normality she craves - and the terror of falling asleep for the first time.

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An offbeat romantic comedy set in Latvia on the shortest night of the year - a night when the whole country goes crazy.
Curt, a young American lands in Riga looking for his Latvian half-sister Maia, hating the place from the minute he arrives. But events - and a very talkative taxi-driver - make him see things differently, so that by the time morning arrives he doesn't bat an eyelid when he sees a kangaroo being wheeled into hospital for treatment!

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Bosnia 1994: A TV news crew and their Serbian militiamen guides tear across the rugged Balkan landscape to break the story of a massacred village - only to find they've strayed into a minefield.

An emotionally visceral black comedy on the tragedy that war inflicts.

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In the middle of nowhere, as darkness falls, a man begins a mysterious ritual of total destruction.