Projects matching: Just

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Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, Arthur and Marta decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.

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In 2012, the Ivy House pub in Peckham was sold to property developers as part of the ongoing gentrification of south London. The locals opposed it. Unfolding from this scenario, the film weaves verbatim testament into folk operatic form with the Ivy House itself, embodied and imagined as a central character and inhabited by the memories of the generations who have passed through its doors. Sarah Turner films the community’s creative reanimation of the mourned pub through dance, poetry and song... which both records and creates a vision of social possibility... The activism that saved the pub is a metaphor for social and creative agency. This is not just a film about resistance; it is a film that itself refuses categorisation... a triumphant genre-blending documentary which turns community action into an exhilarating participatory opera. (London Film Festival)
Public House premiered in the documentary competition at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for the Grierson Award. The film has since been re-edited and remastered in a new version for wider audiences.

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Cairo cardiologist Bassem Youssef ('the Egyptian Jon Stewart') quit surgery to front the hugely popular TV satire Al Bernameg (The Show) amid the country’s turbulent Arab Spring-led political upheavals. Youssef ultimately fell foul of government crackdowns. His programme was cancelled and he was forced to flee the country with his family.
This fascinating, fearless and often very funny documentary charts Youssef’s incredible late-career shift, detailing his and his team's determination and courage in standing up to successive totalitarian regimes, reminding us just how potent and dangerous comedy really can be.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand

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A probational experiment forces its newest chosen convict to confront the horror of her crime in order to win her freedom.

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Six stories of modern love in all of its dizzying, sweet complications. A passionate trip around the world with Gael García Bernal, Sion Sono, Sebastián Silva, Mia Wasikowska, Anurag Kashyap, and Natasha Khan each behind the camera for a 15-minute vignette.
Exploring love in all its permutations. The six stories portray contemporary love in all its glorious, sad, ecstatic, empowering, and erotic manifestations.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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As dawn creeps across London, two lost outcasts meet in the darkness. As the sun begins to rise, the pair are forced to look at themselves, and face the undeniable reality that in the cold light of day, it takes more than the eyes to see inside a soul.

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Two young, straight, Premier League footballers share a hotel room the night before a key match. Out of nowhere, one kisses the other. The emotional impact of this ‘pass’ plays out through the next ten years of their lives – a decade of success and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching violent spaghetti western movies. When she finds an antique pistol in her late father's belongings she decides to stand up to her tormentors, just like her gun-slinging heroes.

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Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days… Their Landlord is trying to terrorize them and strange things seem to be going on at "Juicy Girls", the place where Matilda works… but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.

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Ten year old Anne adopted by a Vampire Slayer (Wraith) kills a ruthless Vampire. 25 years later and now married with two teenage kids, the Vampire comes back to exact vengeance on the family by picking them off one at a time. Controlling Father (Jack) refuses to believe Vampires exist and offers a more likely explanation. The mother (Anne) must now face up to who she really is. So to get her out of the way and safe, Jack tells her to find her guardian and mentor. Meanwhile Jack persuades an old friend of Anne's, an aging once elite special forces captain, and his old unit to rescue their daughter. Soon his ideas that Vampires don't exist are blown away. Together with the slayer Anne and Jack have a final confrontation with the vampires to try and save their family.

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The music never had to be explained. For childhood friends Yoshiki and Toshl, forming their band X in 1982 was a way of living through music. Soon they were selling out international stadiums by perfecting their own style of amps-to-11 glam rock dubbed “psychedelic violence crime of visual shock” (imagine Iron Maiden with a David Bowie spirit animal) and connecting with millions of fans.
Their journey to play Madison Square Garden amidst a Beatlemania-shaped maelstrom is expertly captured by director Stephen Kijak and editors Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin, who dismantle the kitsch and dig into the cult of personality to reveal a story of misfortune and tragedy that has shadowed the band time and again. Just as it is for their fans, music becomes a lifeblood for X Japan, as they are forced to reinvent and regroup in order to survive. Cameos by artistic giants including Marilyn Manson and David Lynch mark some memorable moments in this roller-coaster musical experience. (Sundance Film Festival brochure)
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Sonic Strand

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Based on a true story. 11 year old Urban’s been running away from care since he was five, (six care home and eight foster homes in six years). He’s Britain’s most runaway child... When he can’t find his mum, he sleeps rough on the streets, or in a shed with other runaways 'The Shed Crew’. He’s never known a dad, just his mentally ill, addict mum, Greta. So when she meets Chop, the first decent bloke they’ve ever known, Urban feels hope for the first time.
For Chop, the once idealistic ex-social worker, it’s a chance of redemption. He takes the broken family in, helps Greta, teaches Urban and his brother Frank lessons in life. But the family’s new found happiness is all too fleeting as Greta’s propensity to self-destruct proves too strog, leaving Urban to cope with the fallout the only way he knows how…