Projects matching: ISO

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A man seeks happiness and belonging in the company of the largest crowds he can find.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - International premiere

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Tracing the movements of the New Silk Road, this essay-documentary follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A conscientious English teacher’s ethics and sense of self are challenged by a short story depicting her violent death.

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On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Short Film Competition - World premiere
BAFTA Film Awards 2018 Nomination - Best British Short Film

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One year ago, Honey’s dear husband was murdered at her annual Halloween Costume Party. Honey has vowed she will not rest until she can seek vengeance upon the murderer, but a year has passed since the horrible event and she’s no nearer to solving the crime. Covertly, Honey hires a Police Inspector to attend this year’s party - to which all the potential suspects are invited - and unmask his killer. But in an evening of anarchic fun and extravagance, the Police Inspector learns that the crime is just the tip of a treacherous political iceberg, and no one – not even Honey – is above suspicion.

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During a hot summer in rural England a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.

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Inspired by the true story of Robin Cavendish, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous young man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralysed.
Robin’s wife Diana's devotion and determination help them transcend his disability. Together they refuse to be imprisoned by his suffering, travelling the world and transforming the lives of others with their humour, courage and lust for life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Opening Night Gala

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A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete.
Adapted from Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel 'Lean on Pete'.
SL original entry
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2017 - In Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Official Competition
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018

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For six years, Europe was plagued by a devastating virus that transformed humans into zombie-like monsters. As mankind struggled to control the pandemic, the great hope of a cure was found.
Senan has been through hell. When the plague swept across Ireland he was among the thousands afflicted and rendered into rabid ghouls. Senan did horrible things he cannot forget — and neither can the public, nor the authorities charged with policing those released from captivity. Senan's sister-in-law Abbie, however, is willing to give him a second chance. She lets him live with her and her young son, believing that Senan's actions while infected were beyond his control. But as an angry anti-cured movement burgeons in tandem with an increasingly radicalized pro-cured movement, Abbie is forced to question just how far her trust should be pushed.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Cult Strand

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“CLAPTON IS GOD”. With these words graffitied across London, Eric Clapton became the ultimate guitar hero. He is the only ever three-time-inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an 18-time Grammy Award-winner, and widely renowned as one of the greatest performers of all time. But behind the scenes lay restlessness and tragedy. The insatiable search to grow his artistic voice left fans surprised as he constantly quit successful bands, from the groundbreaking Yardbirds to 1960s super-group Cream. His isolated pursuit of his craft, and fear of selling out, served as a catalyst for his evolution as an artist.
Stretching from his traumatic childhood living in a “house of secrets”, to his long and difficult struggle with drugs and alcohol, and the tragic loss of his son in a heart-breaking accident, Eric Clapton always found an inner strength and healing in music. Told through his own words and songs, as well as those of his family, friends, musical collaborators, contemporaries and many heroes – including BB King, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - TIFF Docs - World premiere

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Life is not easy for our young Barbara Thorson. Defiant, precocious, outspoken, and a loner, Barbara relates more to the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons. At home, she makes life difficult for her older sister, Karen, who is responsible for taking care of her and her brother. At school, psychologist Mrs. Mollé takes an interest in Barbara's increasingly worrisome behaviour. As she deals with loss and bullying, Barbara's imagined life begins spilling into her real one and she becomes obsessed with what she sees as her quest: killing giants. It's only when she's forced to face the truth and overcome her fears that Barbara is able to confront her demons.
Based on the Man of Action Graphic Novel 'I Kill Giants' created by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Discovery and TIFF Kids - World premiere