Projects in genres: Drama

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A drama lifted by moments of humour, The Last Station is a love story set during the last year of the life and turbulent marriage of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy and his wife the Countess Sofya. Tolstoy, having rejected his title and embraced an ascetic life style, finds himself increasingly at odds with Sofya. As his devoted disciple Vladimir Chertkov urges him to sign a new will leaving the rights to his work to the Russian people rather than his family, the conflict between husband and wife grows to breaking point. The whole affair is witnessed by Tolstoy’s new secretary, Valentin, whose love for the beautiful and feisty Masha is set against the old love of Tolstoy and Sofya. The Last Station is a film about the difficulty of living with love and the impossibility of living without it.

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A modern-day Western set in a Bengali village; a story of revenge and the search for personal identity. The village Chairman has his election victory tainted by the arrival of a stranger with a gun. When the stranger sides with the Chairman’s arch nemesis: Thakur, bullets fly in the sleepy backwater village. It soon becomes apparent that the stranger has his own motives for revenge.

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A young boy, Wesley, finds escape from his difficult life by going to sea for a day on a lobster boat.

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The story of two flatmates who share the same space but live completely different lives.

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Set during the Cannes Film Festival, The Making of Plus One packs a punch and pokes more than a little fun at the celebrity obsession fuelling the modern day film industry, full of fads, festival red carpets, creatively incongruous commerciality and artistic dispensability in the far from glamorous reality that is independent feature filmmaking.

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Adaptation of the 1512 Renaissance comedy by Niccolo Machiavelli. Callimaco, a young Sardinian returns from studying in Paris and is overcome by the beauty of Lucrezia, the virtuoso and beautiful wife of the rich and foolish lawyer Nicia. In his desire to bed her, he engages the services of a dubious fixer Liguro who knows that Nicia and Lucrezia are desperate for a child. With Ligurio's help, Callimaco masquerading as a doctor, convinces Nicia that the surest way for his wife to conceive is by taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root, with the dire warning that the first man to sleep with her will die within 8 days. Nicia agrees to a plan to kidnap an unsuspecting man to sleep with his wife and thereby draw out the poison, but of course it is the disguised Callimaco who is to be kidnapped. In order to persuade his wife to agree, because she is so virtuous, Nicia enlists the help of her mother, a woman of questionable virtue, and her confessor, a priest of equally dubious morals. Ultimately Callimaco succeeds in sleeping with Lucrezia, who herself decides that due to the stupidity of her husband and deception of her mother and confessor, she will continue to be his lover and ‘what her husband wanted for her to have for one night, she now wants him to have forever’. The story is concludes with everyone getting what they want and believing that each has outwitted the other.

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Samanta rises from the dead after three hundred years, she has one obsessive memory: to find her lover. Remembering that he was soon to sail for war, she know she has something important to tell him. Her search takes Samanta through today's London, a frightening, bewildering place. Meeting few who will help her, she searches for the river Thames with Jack, her new acquaintance. Traveling on to her conclusion of what has become of her situation, when she finds The Monument.

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Frustrated by the inappropriate and lienient sentencing of serial offenders, this video-diary follows an embittered vigilante as he inadvertantly mounts an escalating campaign of murderous retribution. Feeding on public indifference, our increasingly volatile narrator taunts his apathetic audience as his desire for social justice is progressively overtaken by a stronger, more primitive 'need'!

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Based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink, The Other Man tells the story of Peter, who is missing his wife Lisa when he discovers that she has been receiving emails and mobile messages from a man he never knew existed. Against the advice of his daughter, Abigail, a hurt and vengeful Peter flies to Milan to seek out the mysterious Ralph and the truth about the other man in his wife's life.

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Mr Ludolski has worked hard to make a life for his children in their new home in England. But whilst his daughter works with him at the shop, his layabout sons spend their time drinking and fooling around, and want everything handed to them on a plate.

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For Maisie, the Pond is a place to escape her troubled home life and explore her strengthening allure to the boys, it is the place where she holds all the power over them. What she doesn't know is that it also holds a deep dark secret.

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In an age where the viewer can watch public executions online, ordinary slaughter and routine atrocity make us numb to the pain of human beings. The Promise looks at this final moment from the victim's perspective.