Projects

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A retired physicist, tormented by decades of guilt for not having saved his wife from breast cancer, believes he has finally found a chance at redemption. Thirty-five years after her death, he visits a small café on the outskirts of London, where a young waiter he is about to meet, seemingly by chance, turns out not to be a stranger at all.

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Forensic science is scrutinised when a fictional investigator questions procedures and motivations in the politicised 1999 bombings of flats in Russia. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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A man on parole, a struggling mother, and a pair of drug-dealing brothers each become part of a dizzying multiplicity of plots, but one story. A working class drama focusing on social mobility, disillusionment, and the struggles of working class people. Seen through the perspectives of three characters, the film is loosely based on real life events and uses a mixture of professional and first time actors.

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A family band. Three burnt out brothers, an undervalued sister, a cornucopia of addictions, oversized egos, murderous resentments, delusions of grandeur, washed out morals and rapidly fading success culminates in a whirlwind dark comedy. A portrait of chasing success in the music industry, exposing the toll of addiction and the mental battles that come with the price of ambition.

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Locked and loaded with film tape, a man explores an abandoned rave house, once known as The Warehouse, that was once the beating heart of the South West’s clubland.

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A girl, Ping, faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala's homophobic and aggressive father. As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take action to save herself and kills him. Then she makes him into a cake. This act becomes a ritual of transformation - a severing of ties, a step into anew phase of life. Official Selection London International Animation Festival 2025 Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Kaboom Animation Festival 2026

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In Northern England estranged brothers reunite in a remote cabin. Forced to confront their painful upbringing, they try to process their separate journeys as a result of generational and lived trauma. Official Selection New York Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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Mr X has been in state care most of his life. He builds extraordinary structures out of found objects. As he prepares to leave hospital, his objects become space vehicles to travel across society’s boundaries. He builds for us a vision of his new life. Official Selection Women X Film Festival 2025

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In an isolated deaf community, Matt's idyllic world cracks when Eva arrives, making him question his identity and the costs of maintaining his supposedly utopian society. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2025

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It’s been nearly 20 years since an incident tore the Dyer family apart - an incident with a name: Andy. Andy is the reason world-famous author Andrew, better known to readers as the famously reclusive A.N. Dyer, no longer speaks to his adult sons, Richard and Jamie, nor his ex-wife, Isabel. Now, feeling his time on Earth is running out, he summons his sons to be with him. When they arrive, he tells them something so unbelievable it couldn’t possibly be true. Or could it? Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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Chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario’s ascent in the male-dominated world of conflict photography. Her work is dangerous. She’s been kidnapped twice while on assignment in war zones - a cost she must wrestle with each time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on assignment. Behind the camera, Addario is torn between her unwavering commitment to the essential work of journalism and the powerful, competing demands of motherhood, grappling with what it truly means to follow your calling when it threatens everything you  love. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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Jonah, charismatically ADHD and dyslexically created, is a man-child who keeps on slipping. At the same time, his best mate, Lee, nimbly climbs every ladder. After hitting yet another bump and under pressure to see his great-aunt, who is lost to dementia, Jonah contrives that he and Lee visit, hoping it might also offer respite from himself and the mess he’s creating. Though the Northeast coast of Scotland wasn’t quite what Lee envisioned, it holds a certain wildness and wonder. They meet Charlie, who is profoundly Deaf and attempting to clean up after his shady twin brother. Through a developing friendship, the three boys form a connection that ultimately brings Jonah to discover the courage to be vulnerable and that joy is possible despite loss. THE SON AND THE SEA brings personal experience and threads of familial history together to ask: how will boys become men if there’s no one to show them the way? Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection San Sebastián International Film Festival 2025 - European premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025