Projects in genres: Drama

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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

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An ugly moment in a Berlin bar knocks Yasmina from her usual path and launches us into a series of encounters in a precarious world, beyond the neon and the billboards. Inspired by Schnitzler’s 19th century play, Reigen (La Ronde), ATOMEN careers through the everyday lives and dilemmas of our characters, laying bare the alienation and disenfranchisement, and at the same time the longing for love and connection, even if the pursuit of this almost always fails….. In this world, this world of late capitalism, where faith is lost, and truth is lost, and all are told to only care for themselves, how do people root themselves, find meaning, find enough hope to make life worth living – a life, as Freud said, of ordinary unhappiness, rather than extraordinary alienation?

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Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.

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A mixed-race woman applies for a job as a costume wearer, only to find nothing fits.