Projects in genres: Drama

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Four useless Neds steal a priceless painting from a Scottish castle in return for ten percent of its insurance value. The four art thieves are not quite the smooth operators they believe themselves to be, and their plot to blackmail the owner of the painting is foiled by their own incompetence. Instead of beating a quick retreat abroad, the boys remain in Scotland and try to blend into the background by becoming high profile tourists in golfing ranges and hunting lodges. They are noticed quickly when the heavy handed William accidentally shoots James, his feckless sidekick, on a hunting trip. As each tourist escapade becomes more ridiculous their plans unravel, but they are powerless to resist the lure of the many pretty women who find their money and time irresistible.

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South Africa, 2000. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has arrived in Smitsrivier, opening a window onto a bloody past, and dragging three people in its wake.

Sarah Barcant, hotshot New York lawyer, has returned to her old hometown to help a torture victim confront his tormentor. Alex Mpondo, now a celebrated politician, has found himself back where he was 18 years ago - reliving his ordeal and hoping to expose the truth.  And Dirk Hendricks, ex-police officer and torturer, has been brought out of jail to confess his crimes before the Commission.

A compelling drama about the secrets of the past and the healing of a wounded country.

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Molly's battle with cancer is finally over. Her son, Ricky, promises her a last supper and a morphine cocktail to help her on her way.
 

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A 19th century adventure, River Queen is the story of a young woman's search for identity and love; a woman torn between the two worlds of white colonial New Zealand and native Maori culture.

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A single mother examines her choices in life - with horrifying consequences.

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A yardie gangster, a corrupt politician and an ex-cop battle it out to get their hands on a multi-million dollar haul of cash. Poetically brutal and intriguingly sexual, this is a dark tale of mystery and suspense set against a backdrop of the inner city streets of London. Everybody wants to be a ruler!

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Reality mixes with fantasy in a short film about a young Asian male called Ali. Lonely and isolated, he struggles to integrate into a Western culture while holding down a security job at night. Ali imagines escaping from his mundane life through a fanatsy girlfriend.

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Two men, a bar manager and a Homeless Man both need money. One doesn’t have it and the other doesn’t know how to keep hold of it. On this particular day Eddie is not on the ball. One careless mistake leads to another and events spiral out of control.

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Albert has cancer. He has three months to live. Being a practical man he prepares for his death in a practical way; he clears his debt at the local pub; informs his grown-up daughter, Jude; organises his funeral and builds his own coffin. Conflict arises when his daughter returns home unexpectedly and discovers the coffin.

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Willem Shaw's life is comfortable. The owner of a successful business, he's happily married with two children he adores. They live in a community where Willem is liked and respected. Spiritually, he's never questioned the safe beliefs he was brought up with. The only blot in his life is the local football club. The team he avidly supports has not won all season. Dispirited, clueless and with seven games to go, it is a dead-cert to disappear into the abyss of non-league football.
For Willem, this is worse than death.

But when a highly unlikely, fatal accident coincides with Willem's beloved United recording an equally unlikely win, the two ideas of death and victory merge inextricably together. He becomes convinced winning the seven games the club needs to survive can be delivered. All the god of football demands in return for each win is - sacrifice.

Willem finds himself on a slippery slope of increasingly risky, gruesome, but blackly comic murders. And he goes on a journey of dark self-discovery that confronts every certainty he holds about life, belief and the weird connection between being a fan and the ancient power of prayer.

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Shooting Dogs  is a  gripping and emotional story of two men's struggle for survival when caught up in one of the most brutal genocides of the twentieth century.
 
John Hurt plays Christopher, a priest who forges a friendship with Joe (Hugh Dancy), a young teacher. Together they have to confront the limits of their courage as they decide whether to stay or leave in the face of the 1994 Rwandan tragedy. The film explores the powerful dilemma of peacekeepers caught up in a dangerous world, where they feel powerless to act effectively - an exceptionally timely and resonant story.

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Shooting Shona is an intimate thriller about the disappearance of Shona’s flatmate and her subsequent struggle to find her.

Strange things are happening in Belsize Park. Anonymous love letters lie on the kitchen counter. Shona (Sam Burke) has been randomly receiving them for weeks. They make her uncomfortable, only reminding her of how lonely she really is. Her closest friends seem to be moving on in their lives.

One morning, Shona finds the shower running and her flatmate has vanished. It becomes apparent that something horrible may have happened when a sinister man (Daniel Gosling) breaks into her apartment and rummages through the place.

All the while she is certain that she is being followed.

Circumstances draw Shona to meet a mysterious man called Art (Tim Downie), and eventually his odd drug-dealing friend Leon (Blake Biddulph), and they find themselves piecing together the mystery of Shona's missing flatmate.