Projects in genres: Drama

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It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. Bernie's family, however, are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their errant older son's bad behaviour, so much so that the scale of Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie’s longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster.

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A battered wife gets a once in lifetime chance to change her life, when her husband suddenly chokes on the food he is eating in the middle of them having dinner.

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An absurd tragedy, to accompany a melancholy song by the Tiger Lillies.
 

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One Night. Two Cloakroom Attendents. Three Bouncers. Four Bar Staff.
Five Hours of Madness!

Every weekend the streets surge with crowds looking for love, music and oblivion.

Social Work is about the people who provide it to them -- those faceless heroes whose Monday morning is other people's Friday night. It's a dirty job but someone's got to do it.

The film takes place over one Saturday night shift in a seedy nightclub and centres on Lee and Andy, who run the cloakroom. The club is the kind that people go to in every city and town all over the country.

Andy and Lee are the Cloakroom Attendants, having worked there for the longest anyone has ever managed to, ruling it like their own little cubby-hole of a kingdom. It is their world. Everyone who enters the nightclub, almost invariably has to go through the ritual of leaving in their coats and unwanted belongings under the care of Andy and Lee. Under the ever-watching eye of the arrogant, slimey Club-owner Barry, they do their best to have a great night and make a little extra dosh with their cloakroom scams.

The Staff and Clubbers find themselves intertwining, as each life has an unexpected impact on another.

Lee and Andy find that their little cloakroom is a centre-point for many unforeseeable developments as they transpire throughout the night.

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Obliquely inspired by the fourth of the 'Duino Elegies' by Rilke, a moving story about loneliness, the feeling of loss and the irrevocable passing of time. Illustrated with the music of Eric Satie and suggestions to the paintings of Balthus, an aging man is visited by his reproaching younger self.

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Thirtysomething photographer David has for some time been happily dating Lisa, but increasingly he's dreaming of Nina, a tempestuous free spirit who seems to represent everything his loving, stable girlfriend is not. So what's a man to do? A funny, sad and honest look at the male gender's seemingly infinite capacity for self-deception.
 
"A small pearl in the gritty ocean of indie Brit grunge, Someone Else is a finely scripted, classily played relationships movie for a connoisseur audience. " (Variety)
 
Variety Critics' Choice, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2007.

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Part one of a trilogy: Lulled by the sensuous sounds of a thunderstorm she seems to fall under a spell which conjures up sensations and feelings so intense that she becomes lost in her own thoughts and oblivious to anything or anyone. But this is not just a response to the extraordinary power of nature.

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A working-class kid navigates through his turbulent first year at university. On his way to achieving his long-held ambition to appear on University Challenge, he falls in love with his beautiful teammate and forms a plan to win her heart through his advanced general knowledge skills. A coming of age comedy about loyalty, class, falling in love and the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

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Stick Guns looks at the instinct boys had for war deep within the local wood. Narrated from the viewpoint of a thirty-something dad, expressing memories of a world where adventure was limited only by imagination. A world where a good stick became a great gun.

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Struggling writer Kurt has just lost another book pitch. After vividly reliving the experience he visits his local Aquatic Pet shop to buy a new fish. Here he runs into a pretty young teacher Lucy and after a lively argument with a resident Stingray decides to ask her out on a date. However Kurt's not as good with words as he thinks.

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When an old woman tries to seduce him in a remote pub Milton thinks he's got away with just a hangover until he discovers he's attracted the attention of a witch.

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Estonia. Fifteen year old Axel borrows his father's BMW and sells alcohol to a group of English kids new in Tallinn on an exchange visit. His best mate, Tanel, is in for the ride but has to get rid of a French kid, nicknamed 'Pretty boy'. An English boy, 'Onion', has fallen for an Estonian beauty but how to seduce her? Meanwhile on the edge of the city, Jenny and her friends get hopelessly lost in a wood and accept a lift from a stranger.

Stranger Than Kindness is a feature about trust and friendship, risk-taking and growing. Both comic and unsettling in turn, the film boasts some outstanding performances. A small gem of a film. 'A breath of fresh air' Teressa Cavina, Rome Film Festival.