Projects in genres: Drama

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A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020
Audience Award, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2020

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Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere

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Before Alice found Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of despair until finally they are forced to choose between home and imagination, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Kids - World premiere

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When 80-year-old independent farmer Willis travels to Los Angeles for an indefinite stay with son John and his family, two very different worlds collide. Mentally declining Willis is abrasive, caustic, and funny, bringing old wounds from the past and years of mutual mistrust to the surface.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2020

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When British aid worker Hana returns to the ancient city of Luxor, she comes across Sultan, a talented archaeologist and former lover. As she wanders, haunted by the familiar place, she struggles to reconcile the choices of the past with the uncertainty of the present.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - In Competition - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere

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Quiet and demure Joseph (Ben Whishaw) leads a modest life in London, shuttling between his solo apartment and the airport where he forms part of the security team. His birthday goes unnoticed by his colleagues and only mildly celebrated by his irritable parents. Something seems to be simmering in Joseph just under the surface. It only takes a few strange incidents to unlock his impulse to go on a reckless, frantic, and unbelievable journey through the streets of the city as he determines that boundaries and niceties will no longer govern his life.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Panorama - International premiere

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Following Bertie Oldcross, Labour's candidate for Scarborough and Whitby, and his campaign manager Simon, in the final two days of the 1997 UK general election. Bertie is heading for a sure victory but as the pair drive to an end of campaign party they accidentally run over a local man. Knowing the potential repercussions of this going public on the eve of polling day they embark on an overnight cover up operation in the hope of averting these outcomes, but will the morality of their actions become too much for the men to bear?

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Set in Manchester’s notorious Moss Side, a single mother’s 40th birthday party ends in disaster when her lover unexpectedly arrives and clashes with her overprotective son.

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When a young married professional quits his job to pursue a career in photography, he gradually reveals the emptiness of his relationship with his wife as he begins to deeply connect with a German student.
Inspired by the films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, COFFEE IN WINTER is a slow-paced poetic drama that subtly unearths issues with the marriage and status culture in British Indian society.

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Musa, an illegal immigrant and refugee, living and working on a UK car wash, takes on an underground driving job, with an unknown cargo, in order to gain freedom from his criminal employers - Doggerland.

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What even is a male? Why can't I wear a dress? F**k it. Let's have sex and worry about it later. Transgender Blake and cisgender Cane hang out, play video games and grapple with their insecurities. This is their love story.

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Falling in love is hard in this powerful adaptation of Neil Hilborn's poem OCD.
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Film