Projects matching: Jones

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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.

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In a bustling metropolis of millions, young Ash is lost. He wants to be the big man but reality hasn’t quite delivered. Then a chance encounter leads him to make a dangerous decision which begins a chain reaction of events.

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Amurdersome husband and wife team have had a disagreement. Welcome to the aftermath.

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Paul Limp drives up and down the country in a cheap tuxedo entertaining at parties. Tonight, it's Charlotte's Bat Mitzvah - and it's set to be the best night of her life. Until Paul starts drinking.

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Swim forwards, or move backwards.
This film examines a moment in the life of Lee, a young man, when he is faced with a difficult decision; to face up to his responsibilities and move forward with his life, or continue in fear and live to regret it.