Projects in genres: Drama

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In a claustrophobic and lonely city – a salesman, on the verge of poverty, waits for a migrant visa to Italy, hoping that it would change his luck and create a better future for his family.
Official Selection Encounters Film Festival 2020 - World premiere
Official Selection Busan International Short Film Festival 2020
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2021

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A 14-year-old boy is forced to take matters into his own hands when his chronically unwell mother is no longer able to access the NHS after she loses her right to remain in the UK.

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Stereotypes are overturned in this story of physical disability, where a group of friends on a council estate find a way to assert their independence using the gifts others see as flaws.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK Or Mine?

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When a young girl discovers that Santa is not real, she questions the lies told by adults and the terrible secret that she has been forced to keep.

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A brief encounter causes one man to reflect on the monumental impact that an 'ex' has had on his life...but can the man rediscover his once sentimental soul and reconnect with the notion that "all you need is love"?

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Two brothers plan to spend quality time together on a weekend hike, but when things go wrong they are forced to confront a rift in their relationship.

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A woman who, having converted to Islam after meeting her husband, suffers an identity crisis following his sudden death. Learning details of his secret family in the French town of Calais, she travels to find them and herself.
Official Selection Critics' Week - Cannes Film Festival 2020
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020

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Alfred Rott’s (Timothy Spall) reputation as a womanizing, foul-mouthed right wing genius follows him like a late afternoon shadow. After falling out with authorities over a new Arts Centre in Brussels, Rott is invited to an exclusive orgy where he is handed a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to visit the wealthy and eccentric recluse on the island of Malta who calls himself 'The Grand Duke Of Corsica'. The Grand Duke (Peter Stormare) commissions Alfred to build him a personalized mausoleum in preparation for his own death.
A malaria outbreak on the island causes the entire population to flee. Fires break out and pandemonium ensues. Alfred must remain however, to finish the project that may be the greatest, yet most invisible, creation of his remarkable career.

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A reinvention of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
The opening scenes of the film follow a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of 'A Christmas Carol'. As the family's grandmother narrates the much-edited story and her grandchildren change the scenery, we enter the imagination of one of the children in the audience and watch as the cardboard stage, and the story with it, transforms into a darkly fantastical otherworld.

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In 1943 Poland, six Jewish children murdered by a German housewife.
In 2017 Manchester, twenty three concert goers murdered by a student.
A terrible echo seventy five years apart, connected by extremism. ARENA follows two intercutting stories of outsider characters whose lives have been poisoned through conditioning to carry out extreme acts of hate.
Will society ever learn the lessons of the past?

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Through a series of vignettes, we see fragments of a couple’s relationship; in sync together, yet out of time with the world around them.
As the story unfolds, we slowly start to see their relationship deteriorate. She becomes out of sync with him and thus in sync with the world.

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Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Competition - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Thrill