Projects in genres: Drama

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Jack is a young boy dying of leukaemia. All his treatments are failing him. His mother refuses to accept reality. His father cannot bear to see his son suffering. Behind the mother’s back, father and son plot and execute a daring adventure and in doing so challenge every aspect of the boy’s fragile remaining life.

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While his girlfriend languishes in a maternity ward, a young man deals with his impending fatherhood by going out on the pull with his mates. But every one night stand has a morning after.

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Karen escapes to Brighton from her unreliable partner taking her daughter, Sally, with her. On the beach she fears for Sally's safety when a mysterious man, John, approaches. Despite her initial pre-conception, John is a warm, friendly man who ignites Karen and Sally's imagination at this transitional moment in their lives.

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In a life where violence begets violence, 13-year-old Nico reacts to a beating from his brother by stealing his cat. He then engages in an act of wanton brutality with devastating consequences, in this powerful and affecting film.

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Trouble Sleeping tells the story of a Palestinian refugee, Ahmed, and his struggle to survive and remain a good man. He is about to be deported from the UK and be forced into a return to the Middle East which is fraught with danger. Halla knows a secret which can save him but he cost of revealing that secret will be terrible for her.

Trouble Sleeping is based on the true stories of refugees in Scotland.

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A social drama about a loving father with a propensity for violence and his struggle to earn his family's trust.

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What happens when three groups of people decide to rob the same bank on the same day.
 

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A year ago, Laura's husband died. He is buried in the graveyard behind the marital home, where Laura still lives. But Laura has decided that it is time to move on at last - to sell the house. The night before the anniversary, a strange and unsettling visitor comes to the house. How can Laura discover what it wants?

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Under the bombs, a woman searches for her son. A man accompanies her. They have nothing in common. Toni is Christian and dreams of leaving the country. Zeina is Shiite, and has emigrated to Dubai. Back in Lebanon to try and save her son, she realizes she doesn't want to leave anymore. Toni and Zeina fall in love each other, as a kind of response to the death striking all around them.
 

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A day in the life of Liverpool's madcap Potts family, in a boy meets girls tale with a difference. Social surrealism, written collaboratively by a community from Garston - south Liverpool.

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In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize - but there can be only one winner.

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Arriving without her husband for reasons that are at first unexplained, Anna enters the cosy world of a bourgeois family on holiday. In her mid-40s with no children of her own, Anna is unrelated to this extended family, which belongs to her old school friend Verena. 
 
Phone calls to her husband Alex reveal a rift in their marriage, hiding an unspoken sadness in both their lives. In a series of subtle ellipses, and with a deliberate avoidance of melodrama, we observe Anna as she rejects the company of the adults, in favour of the carefree teenagers. They seem to fill an empty space in her life. Through Anna's awkward attempts to join in with the teenagers' escapades, she unwittingly becomes the centre of a breakdown within the family, and finds herself shunned by everyone. She attempts to find solace through phone calls to her husband Alex but is met by jealousy and suspicion. 
 
Anna retreats to an anonymous hotel room, where Verena visits her, and Anna's untold story finally emerges. Her curious behaviour appears in a new light and she now has to pick up the pieces of her relationship with Alex.