Projects in genres: Drama

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Danny is a champion amateur boxer about to compete in his first professional fight. Years of coaching by his father Issac and trainer Geoff are about to pay off. All Danny has to do is win. But as everyone is soon to discover, sometimes you have to lose to win.

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Having failed at an endless stream of entry-level jobs, an accident prone man finds a job as a butler. Despite wreaking utter havoc, he manages to do a few things right and wins the family he has always longed for. This is a hilarious comedy sure to delight children, families, and lovers of films such as Uncle Buck, Big Daddy and Mrs. Doubtfire.

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In the late 1980s, a sleepy military post on the Macedonian-Albanian border is continuing with its work. Their routine is interrupted when Lieutenant Pasic feels strange pains in his nether parts. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa. The doctor conducts the necessary embarrassing examination and diagnoses syphilis. Pasic has a problem: he cannot go home to his wife now. So he invents a war. He declares a state of emergency and informs the soldiers that the Albanians have moved their troops close to the border and are preparing to attack. Pasic orders that no one, including himself, can leave the base. But not everyone believes the story. Another young soldier, the streetwise Ljuba Karanovic, is suspicious. Having never liked Pasic, Ljuba comes up with his own scheme to get himself off the base and make a fool out of Pasic at the same time.

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A young boy, on a beach, records the traumatic events of the past 24 hours in the form of a video diary sent to his mother, recording his last living moments.

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Breaking and Entering tells the story of a series of thefts - some criminal, some emotional - set against the backdrop of a changing London whose geographical and cultural landscape is in flux. The central character, Will (Jude Law), is a successful landscape architect. His young, vibrant company, which he runs with business partner, Sandy (Martin Freeman), has recently relocated to King's Cross, the centre of the most ambitious urban regeneration site in Europe. Their state-of-the-art office immediately attracts the attention of a local group of thieves. After one of the break-ins, Will follows 15-year-old freerunner Miro (Rafi Gavron) back to the apartment he shares with his mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche) - a refugee from Bosnia. With his relationship with Liv (Robin Wright Penn) - his beautiful Swedish partner - already in crisis, Will embarks on a passionate journey into both the wilder side of himself and the city in which he lives.

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A film about love, loss and denial, Brown Paper Bag is a searing drama about an alcoholic couple, Ronnie and Reggie, who are on the road to self destruction.

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Call me Harry is a short about storytelling and self delusion. Harry is a storyteller. There is nothing that he loves more than to regale people with tales from his days in the theatre, however when he loses his wife his life falls into social and financial turmoil. Unable to afford a plane ticket to Australia to visit his daughter he starts to take out credit cards under the names of famous actors of the past in order to buy the friendship of strangers. Generally these tale of the theatre are not well received, however the one place where he is welcomed with open arms is the community centre where he goes to read to the elderly. He is a favourite of Mrs Holmes a particularly sparky resident of the centre. Harry's delusions escalate and he starts to pass himself off as film director Terrence Malick to gain preferential treatment at the theatre while all the time the credit card company is trying to track him down. When Mrs Holmes dies Harry is left enough money to visit his daughter, however by now the credit card company's net is closing in.

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A film noir about mixed signals. Confusion. And there being no signs. A girl who desires a woman decides to take matters into her own hands after being beaten up - Only she didn't reckon on the outcome.

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A delicate portrait of a mother and daughter's strained existence together in the Scottish countryside. A birthday celebration is hampered by a crumbling life that is held together by a daughter's love.

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An experimental short film that explores the theme of childhood and lost innocence. The imagery - based around the fairground carousel - evokes a fairytale and dreamlike yet sinister atmosphere that belies the decorative classical score.

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The life of Casanova as told through the love letters he sent and received, which were found in the castle of Duchov where he died. The loves, hates, fortune and misfortune of the great lover who, among other things, invented the French national lottery, spied, and fought duels. A confidante of kings (and queens) who ended up hating what he had become.  

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A full-length feature developed from the Academy Award-nominated short film. When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours, he starts working the late-night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colourful cast of characters, all of whom have their own 'art' of dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to the problem of Ben's insomnia.