Projects in genres: Drama

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Having been supporting her family in China alone for decades, the dry-cleaning shop owner meets a new customer, who liberates her from the lonely and colourless life in this foreign land. As a loyal wife who has been sticking to her family responsibilities, she shows doubt in her belief...

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Set against the backdrop of a working farm in rural Northern Ireland, a black comedy about the reunion of estranged brothers Turlough and Lorcan after the untimely death of their mother.
BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Best British Short Film - Winner
Academy Awards 2023 - Best Short Film (Live Action) - Winner

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The turbulent life of first world war poet, Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered filmmaker Terence Davies.
Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the first world war and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front and he became one of the leading war poets of the era.
Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life’s journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion. His story is one of a troubled man in a fractured world searching for peace and self acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to the modern world as it did then.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentation

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Best friends Scarlett and Freya are practically inseparable but when Scarlett breaks her ankle and Freya starts struggling with her mental health, the difference in how they're treated starts to change this.

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Ray’s estate is being bulldozed. On the way to fireworks night, Ray and her daughter take a detour through the new development that is being built in its place.

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A young woman with terminal cancer embarks on a series of fake charity challenges but her new lust for life is cut short when she’s arrested for fraud.

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DELPHYNE (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are told through a fabric-themed metaphor, and the conflict between a mother-daughter relationship. The script is stylised in a theatrical form, taking the works of Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as a background and filmed in rural Suffolk. The tone draws on Petrushevskaya’s depictions of intense female-driven, claustrophobic family relationships particularly between generations of women who pull at each other in close quarters. Both a folk and fairy-tale element exists to the progress of the film, relating to the directors own heritage. The film is shot in East Anglia, Suffolk.

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In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Official Selection CAMERIMAGE - International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Cinéfondation - La Cinef 2022

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In early 18th century Scotland, Lilias Adie, a kind middle-aged woman, is accused of witchcraft by a jealous neighbour.

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In 2051, a charismatic but lonely mechanic invites us into his garage and talks us through the ups and downs of the past 30 years. It didn't go the way you would have expected.

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Successful author Jonathan Stack has been so obsessed with trying to pen his hit novel that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner Luke, a hapless control freak who has loved Sam forever.

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Two lifelong friends on a remote Irish island find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship with alarming consequences for both of them.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2022 - World premiere