Projects in genres: Drama

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An emotional stand-off takes flight as two queer teens struggle to learn how to skateboard, somehow unaware that a sentient netball is after them.

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The loss of a family shop leads a young British Caribbean girl to consider her identity and sense of home. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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Life for Maya looks perfect: an athlete, popular, has a loving family, head over heels for her girlfriend Jasmine. However, she’s about to risk it all by inviting Jasmine around. With the help of her grandmother will dinner with her family go smoothly, or will they scare Jasmine off?

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Pilgrimage or purgatory? Every Wednesday Amar endures a 24-mile round trip on foot to the JobCentre and back to sign on. Today the walk is particularly gruelling as he grapples with the recent death of his father, avoiding a phone call he’s too ashamed to face. Official Selection Flickers' Rhode Island Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - European premiere

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After witnessing his wife's illicit affair, a humiliated businessman flees deep into the countryside where he encounters a reclusive war veteran. Together, they strike a maniacal pact to take revenge on the man who cucked him.

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Howard drives his partner Joseph to hospital to undergo a high risk operation. The intimacy of the car, alongside a long forgotten mix tape, sees the masculinity of their forty-year relationship start to yield.

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Kaz’s mum has recently committed suicide and he decides that Boris Johnson is responsible for his mother’s death. Lacking sleep and grieving, Kaz decides to come up with a plan to kill him. What he really needs though, is to speak to someone. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - La Cinef Selection

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The perfect life of an upper-middle-class woman begins to unravel with the arrival of two shadowy figures in her town.

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Ralphie is young and healthy and his girlfriend is pregnant. Yet things do not feel quite right. His job as an Uber driver is neither gratifying nor financially secure. His relationship with his body may also be built on shaky foundations. When he is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult, the tensions that have been growing inside him surface. Ralphie begins to lose his grip on reality. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere

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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition

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Set in 1837, we bear witness to a gentleman's duel on the outskirts of London... A case of mistaken identity, poor timekeeping, injured pride masquerading as honour, a set of old duelling pistols, and what we have is a whirlwind journey of oddity and both intentional and unintentional death-doing…

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A disgraced television presenter forms a pact with a desperate stranger.