Projects matching: Just

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Steamy psychodrama Desire explores the link between sex and creativity through the story of a screenwriter struggling with a character who threatens to take over not just his creative life but his sanity.
Ralph sits alone at the top of his London house, crippled by agoraphobia, emasculated by the success of his soap-star wife Phoebe, unable to complete the screenplay that will rescue his reputation and his family.
With a deadline looming, he invites student au pair Néné from Paris to look after the children. But is she carer, muse, lover or thief?
As Ralph succumbs to his desire, Néné embarks on a passionate relationship with both husband and wife that leads all three into areas of emotional and creative trangression. Who is using whom? Who is writing the film called Desire? And where will it end?

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Mister Kindle landed a new job with a Japanese company but on the morning of his first day, crowds of commuters stop him from crossing London Bridge. Problem. And that's just the beginning. As Mr Kindle will soon find out, he will need to give up much more than what he bargained for to keep his job.

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Stephen and Cheryl are college students making a documentary about what people dread in life. But they have no idea that their partner Quaid, witnessed his parents being murdered by an axe-wielding lunatic and wants to make others experience his own personal horror.

The three set out to document people revealing their life's most terrifying moments. But Quaid quickly grows bored with mere interviews and decides to take the study to a much more visceral level, causing all three to become vulnerable as they reveal their fears in front of the camera. Just as Stephen and Cheryl realize they have partnered with a madman, they also find themselves subjects of the hideous experiment they brought to life learning more about fear and dread than any human mind can stand.

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A tragic tale told through the language of movement.

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Dave is about to jump in front of a speeding train, but why? Could it have something to do with a 20 year-old junkie called Megan who has just discovered she is pregnant and made a dramatic decision to turn her life around? Perhaps it could be connected to Jack, whose seemingly perfect life and relationship have started to crumble around him or maybe it has something to do with teenage runaway Stacey who has disappeared in search of someone she’s never met.

Gareth is desperately searching for his missing daughter, but no one seems to have any clue where she is, until one day, a mysterious phone call from an eleven year old boy seems to provide the answer. As Gareth takes the last few steps to find his daughter, the answers are revealed and worlds collide with devastating effect.

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Women are violently ripped from a container. Their shocked, Moldavian, ex-special forces, husbands are told they must win six fights. Six fights to secure their freedom and earn their wives back.
 
Their wives are ferried to sex clubs. Their children, taken to be sold.
 
The same gang has stolen one of Gabe’s luxury trailers with Zaf inside. Zaf is due to marry Gabe’s daughter in just three days. Gabe runs a boxing gym, and within minutes, 15 boxers are on the warpath.
 
Gabe’s trailer is recovered, but Cristi, the Mafia Boss, soon takes revenge.
 
Gabe’s daughter is kidnapped, his son murdered and his world turned upside down. He is told in no uncertain terms ‘it is not his country anymore’. Gabe fights to save his family and his national pride. A bloody battle ensues.
 
In this turf war, there are no rules and no winners.
 
Wins Silver Palm at Mexico
Wins Best Direct at Breckenridge
Wins Best Actor (Danny Midwinter) at Breckenridge 
 
Nominated
Best Special Effects and Best Foreign Film in LA this week at the Action On Film Festival

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In 2008 an independent production company set out to make the micro-budget feature film Just For The Record.

Armed with a stellar cast of top TV actors, the world’s most advanced digital camera and a quirky location to die for - what could possibly go wrong?

A lot, as it happens.

A year after the film has been abandoned, the cast and crew reunite for a series of interviews about the ill-fated production. It’s a constant round of accusations, recriminations and humorous anecdotes as everyone tries to answer the central burning question: Why did the film fail and whose fault was it?

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Little Matador  is a feature length documentary about children bullfighters in Mexico. Kids as young as eight are trained to kill bulls ten times their weight. The film follows three children who are fighting not just the bull but their own demons;

Michelito is ten. The adored child of a matador Dad, Michelito has killed over two hundred bulls. ‘Picasso was born to paint, Mozart to make music – and Michelito to be a matador,’ says Dad. Can Michelito fulfil his father’s dream to become the youngest matador in history?

Joel is nine. Neglected by his mum and step-father, he finds paternal love in the ring. Matador Ismael becomes Joel’s surrogate father and guardian angel. But if Ismael moves to Spain for his own career, what will happen to Joel?

Andrea is twelve. She started bullfighting when her father moved to America. Andrea has disowned her dad – who has found a new woman - and vows to save her mum from poverty by becoming a superstar bullfighter. But will Andrea ever get over her terrible nerves every time she enters the ring?

Little Matador is an extraordinary testimony to the lengths these kids will go to realise their dream.

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An intimate and moving account of one family’s extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality

In 2008 Mike Campbell – one of the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe to have held fast in the face of the violent ‘Land Reform’ programme – took the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe before the SADC International Court (SADC - South African Development Community) to defend his farm, which is also home to 500 black workers and their families, and to charge Mugabe and his government with racial discrimination and with violations of Human Rights.

This film, much of it shot covertly, follows the traumatic ordeal of Mike, his son in law Ben and their family as they take on a man who has brought death to thousands.
 

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In Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she's needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world.

In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she's arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green's children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.

Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

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Imagine John Lennon's childhood.

A lonely teenager, curious and sharp, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool.

Two incredible women clash for his love. Mimi, the formidable aunt who raised him and Julia, the spirited mother who gave him up.

Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into music. His fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the young Paul McCartney.

But just as John's new life begins, the truth about his past leads to a tragedy he would never escape.

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We've all had 'one of those days' – when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.

Howard and his wife Jean have lived a very ordinary life. They’ve never taken drugs, overtaken on the inside lane, or run naked through a graveyard. An unkind observer might even say they were dull. But somewhere deep down, these law abiding English suburbanites believed that one day, divine justice would reward them for their propriety. But when Judgment Day does arrive, it’s a logistical disaster. Too many people, not enough staff. So when Howard finds that due to a clerical error, he has been mistaken for the genocidal maniac Vlad the Impaler, he begins a downward spiral into what seems like a never ending abyss of paper work and mindless officialdom.