Projects matching: Jones

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Shelly Hayden is a struggling single mother living on a neglected English council estate, desperately trying to shield her six-year-old daughter Daisy from the reality of their situation. With mounting debts, bailiffs at the door and barely enough food to survive, Shelly turns their hardships into games of make-believe, allowing Daisy to remain blissfully unaware of just how close they are to losing everything. But as Shelly searches for help, every door seems to close. Friends have nothing to give, Daisy’s father is nowhere to be found, and the threat of social services taking her daughter grows increasingly real. With Daisy hungry and her options exhausted, Shelly is pushed towards a desperate decision. Inside a local shop, one final game of make-believe offers her a chance to provide for her daughter, but the consequences could cost Shelly the one thing she has fought hardest to protect. A raw and heartbreaking drama about poverty, motherhood and the lengths a parent will go to keep the real world from reaching their child.

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Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a hand raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school, but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma. A beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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A guilt-ridden writer, haunted by the past, embarks on a melancholic train journey home. Memories of a tumultuous adolescence resurface, forcing him to confront a dark secret that led to his mother's confinement in an asylum. Through fragmented recollections and lyrical confrontations, he navigates a path towards redemption and artistic awakening. This film is a Welsh-language "operatic film", a genre-bending exploration of grief, memory, and the power of artistic creation. Drawing inspiration from Wales' literary cornerstone, 'Un Nos Ola Leuad', this introspective drama is a fever dream woven from personal trauma and artistic expression. Score composed by Gareth Glyn, performed by the Welsh National Opera orchestra In Welsh with English subtitles Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Exploring how the legacy of Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel 'On the Road' reflects in today’s America. The film interweaves stories of contemporary “on-the-roaders”, modern travellers and cultural figures including Josh Brolin, W. Kamau Bell and Natalie Merchant, who reveal how Kerouac’s quest for authentic experience resonates powerfully in our screen-saturated era - offering a lyrical meditation on what it means to truly experience the journey. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2025 - European premiere

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A bookish lab technician uses her access to a DNA database to find a date, but the ‘chance’ meet cute turns into something much more sinister. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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When Zephyr, a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below. Official Selection Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2025 - World premiere

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Colin, a weedy wallflower, is letting life pass him by. That is until Ray, the impossibly handsome leader of a motorbike club, takes him on as his submissive. Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way. But as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another? Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2025 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026

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When gay teenager Connor and his parents realise they are able to decide the sexuality of Connor's younger brother, the decision causes a breakdown in communication... Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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The story of the wild schoolboy Rich Jenkins, the son of a boozy miner, and the English teacher who recognised his talent, Mr Philip Burton. A moving, untold story of how Rich Jenkins became Richard Burton, the biggest star Wales has ever produced.

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In the subterranean archive of the National Roman Legion Museum, where artefacts and imperial debris trace Britain’s imperial past, the possible first depiction of a Welshmen or “barbarian” becomes a catalyst to unsettle imperial narratives and surface long-suppressed voices.

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Two Black boys go on a journey of self-acceptance. Their love for each other and their refusal to hide it lands them in a paradise free of shame and judgment. Official Selection Tampere Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2025 - National premiere BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Winner - Best British Short Animation

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A portrait of an unlikely friendship between two Indigenous women, set against a dramatic decline in the snow leopard population. When local conservationist Tshiring Lhamu Lama learns about a snow leopard killing a family’s entire goat herd, she returns home to convince the family not to kill the animal in retaliation. The family’s young daughter, Tenzin Bhuti Gurung, accepts an offer to apprentice with Tshiring to escape an arranged marriage, and the pair travel together across the spectacular Himalayan landscape in search of the mysterious snow leopard. Can they find their own voice amidst centuries-old patriarchy, and save snow leopards despite a conservation industry failing to deliver change? Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere