Projects in genres: Drama

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In the mid-2000s student Oliver Quick is struggling to find his place at Oxford University and finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Opening Night Gala - International premiere

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Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids' TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. Struggling to find enough to eat, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 Official Selection SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Awards 2024 - Winner - Best British Short Film BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - Winner - Best British Short Animation Academy Awards 2025 - Oscar Nomination - Best Animated Short Film

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A grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past. Official Selection HollyShorts Film Festival 2023 - World premiere - Winner Best Live Action Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 Academy Awards 2024 - Oscar Nomination - Live Action Short Film

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A film of love, loss and music set amongst the falling feathers of a chicken factory. It’s present day in industrial North Wales. Helen, in her late 30s, spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for a dying mother-figure Gwen. She lives in a small room in the house her clingy ex-husband shares with his dim-witted girlfriend and their new baby. Helen’s humdrum world takes an unexpected turn with the return of Joanne. They were the objects of the other’s unspoken teenage passions. Encouraged by Helen, Joanne starts a playful wooing game that re-awakens their youthful feelings. As they fall in love and lust, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls closing in as she faces something much darker from her past. Helen’s world is shattered when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories cause her to flee. Separated and alone, both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance. Eventually, they find the courage to let go of the past and allow their love to win. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023

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A young surfer grieves the loss of his father A contemporary adolescent tale of surfing, sex and hellfire set on an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Adapted from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson the film has been developed as a film/theatre hybrid with certain elements filmed in front of a live audience. The film follows lawyer Utterson as he tries to find out who the illusive Mr Hyde is and what power he wields over his friend Dr Jekyll. Official Selection Edinburgh International FilmFestival 2023 - World premiere

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Beate is an ambitious executive working at EUROPA, a mysterious private security company, set on taking over lands and resources from locals in a remote valley in Southern Albania to implement its secret agenda. Official Selection Sarajevo Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Official Competition

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Frozen within the memory of a single violent moment, a woman describes the events, thoughts and feelings that led her to this place. Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023

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One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - European premiere

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A poignant tale of one boy's attempt to cut off a part of himself in the wake of his baptism. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition

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A nuanced portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship. Drawing upon a mother’s expectations of a dutiful daughter, the film explores family obligation and associated guilt that reflects the emotional strains of being a South Asian woman in modern British society.

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An action packed tale straight from the palms of a Nigerian mother, who on one fateful night serves her son a set of slaps so powerful that it will change his life forever. FESTIVAL OF SLAPS explores the misconceptions of Pan African parenting and the clash of modern life. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 BAFTA Film Awards 2024 - Nomination - Best British Short Film