Projects in genres: Drama

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Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Scotland, 1937. Stella, a 20 year-old German Jewish student, finds work on a large country estate owned by the fascist Earl of Rig. With war looming and desperate to find her missing parents, Stella is quickly accepted as one of the family and must hide her true identity to survive. While there she falls in love, with life changing consequences. Based on the folktale of Cinderella, championing the struggle with identity, home and love, STELLA is the tale of a refugee.

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In this ghost story from acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg, a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery.
Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

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Based on a true-life incident that happened in 1969, where 17-year-old Olive Morris tried to prevent a Nigerian diplomat named Clement Gomwalk from being assaulted under false pretenses by police in Brixton.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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London 1950s. A widowed cleaning lady in falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but also the future of the iconic fashion house.
Adaptation of Paul Gallico's much-loved novel

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A country house. An elderly couple. A yearning for a higher level of existence. Rituals and recitations. Performances of lost moments. Warm milk. Roast trout. Pantyhose. Childhood comforts and hidden desires. Daddy issues and battles with Brother. An imposter. An impregnation. Lives ebbing away. And memories. Memories everywhere.

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Three strangers - all of whom work for the same corporation - take part in a management training day. Their volatile role-play task is to fire an imagined co-worker, exploring the worst possible reactions they might receive to eliminating another person’s livelihood.

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Li, a vulnerable, injured Taiwanese woman is on the run. Desperate to escape the men pursuing her, she seeks uninvited shelter inside the home of elderly St Lucian widower, Errol. Despite not speaking one another’s language, the two form an intimate bond of friendship over the course of one day. What unfolds is a universal tale of compassion and trust that reveals two resilient people helping one another through trauma and grief.

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It's 2010 and the last day of school before summer. Morey, an anxiety-fueled mentor living a life devoid of purpose, is quietly descending into a breakdown as he arrives to pick up his rebellious and sometimes violent teenage student, Jackson. The tension only intensifies when their intended photography trip leads to an altercation on a train, forcing the pair into a nearby forest where they have a cathartic exchange that changes them forever.

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A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone with her conscience, unable to openly discuss her situation, she painfully decides the best way forward. A film highlighting pro choice, in a world where women are still fighting for autonomy over their bodies.

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Rosie, a Congolese teenager, who’s recently arrived in London, discovers the unwelcoming side of life in Britain when a misunderstanding with two window cleaners escalates into conflict.
Official Selection LA Shorts International Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2023

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Haunted and scarred by conflict and loss, a sailor must come to terms with the trauma of war and the mysteries of the deep, as he endures another shift in the small hours of the night on the Middle Watch.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation