Projects matching: Jones

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A young professional fights to conceal who he is during one of the most important interviews of his life.

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Scott and his dim-witted companion, Joel (Local residents of the Cambridge area) are enlisted to help out in purchasing an old VW Campervan by an unlikely buyer – Scott’s slightly estranged, Uncle George. The simple lives of the rural Cambridge residents, Scott and Joel, are transformed rather quickly when they’re suddenly confronted with the reality that Uncle George might be up to no good.
Thrust into a world of debt collectors, armed Campervan robberies, dog kidnappers and even an unsuspected psychopath, the pair along with Uncle George – the nemesis responsible for their predicaments - work through the comedy of errors that unfold never quite getting to the bottom of things. They get close, but no cigar!

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Inspired by actual events, the gripping story of 19-year-old Matt Ocre, a machine gunner in the 2003 Iraq War. Matt and his platoon are sent on a mission to repair a damaged aqueduct in the increasingly dangerous village of Baqubah. Things quickly turn from bad to worse as the rising and deadly Sunni insurgency threatens to tip the already unstable region into full-on bloodshed and mayhem. In the face of overwhelming adversity, Matt and his comrades-in-arms, Falvy and Bartles, under the command of Captain Syverson, must tap into hidden strength and courage if they hope to get out alive.

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An elderly mother continues to grieve for her only child, whom was killed in the Aberfan Disaster of 1966; questioning God as to why her child and 143 others - including 115 of his friends - "had" to die that day.

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Spring. Yorkshire. Isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker, employed for the lambing season, ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Panorama

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Born in a violent and neglected favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Alan Duarte suffered immense personal tragedy. However, he dreams of finding salvation and building a better future for his son and his community through his boxing project.

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1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island.

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Jake and his friends pass their time hanging out in the courtyards of their high-rise development or in pool halls, talking about girls, watching pornos and getting drunk. They all have their own demons, but Jake's secret is one that he can't tell anyone.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus - World premiere

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A dystopian alternate history television series based on the 1976 novel 'SS-GB' by Len Deighton.
The Battle of Britain has ended in victory for Hitler’s Germany and the population of 1940s Britain struggles to adjust to life under Nazi occupation. Renowned London detective Douglas Archer is caught between his brutal new SS bosses and a ruthless British resistance movement while investigating what looks to be a black market- related murder. As Archer gets closer to the truth, he struggles to uphold the law and protect those he loves from two sides prepared to go to any lengths to control the ultimate outcome of the Second World War.
Berlinale Special Series will premiere the first two episodes of the mini-series.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Berlinale Special Series - World premiere

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A comedy wrapped around a tragedy, which unfolds in real time in a house in London in the present day. Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends to celebrate her promotion to Shadow Minister of Health in the party of opposition. Her husband, Bill, seems preoccupied. As their friends arrive, some of whom have their own dramatic news to share, the soirée gradually unravels. An announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that rapidly escalate into all-out confrontation. As people’s illusions about themselves and each other go up in smoke, along with the canapes, the party becomes a night that began with champagne but ends with blood on the floor.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentation

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A man and his child live a nomadic existence. After he murders a woman in cold blood, their relationship begins to break apart.

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A veteran spy is sent undercover in Syria to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus. Within days of his arrival he realizes he’s being followed, his partner doesn’t show, his local contact disappears, and a group of men are trying to kill him. It is not long before his routine mission unravels to reveal a string of murderous conspirators. Marked for death and caught in a maddening puzzle, he must race for survival.