Projects with status: Complete

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A love story and escape movie set in an immigration removal centre. A woman named Isio is caught working without papers. Relocated and trapped inside Hatchworth Removal Centre, she learns that finding love, friendship and freedom sometimes means doing the wrong things. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - First Feature Competition

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With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother. An exploration of the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, set against the backdrop of Almería, Spain, based on the novel by Deborah Levy. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Competition - World premiere

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In the capital of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Orsolya serves as a bailiff. She has to evict a homeless guy from a cellar one day, which has disastrous results and sets off a moral problem that Orsolya must try to resolve. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025

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Stunted and frustrated by cowboy life in Saskatchewan, Charlotte flees her controlling husband in a 1978 Bronco. Landing uninvited and unannounced at her mother's apartment, 960 Park Avenue, a disgruntled Kit has just three words for her daughter: ”Am I dying?”   Set in New York’s Upper East side and its culture of eccentrics, PARK AVENUE explores the bond between mother – “A great liar” – and daughter – “A terrible one”. Through shared history, unshared truths, and loves lost,  Kit and Charlotte find each other.  Official Selection Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025 Official Selection Dublin International Film Festival 2025

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Alan is seemingly kidnapped in the forest by a mysterious man. He manages to escape, but soon begins a surreal ride through different, important moments from his life. It all seems to be connected to the mysterious man. What the hell is this?

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A stone-broke gay actor and a privileged bonehead with a failing business cross paths on a winter night and join forces in a quest around London to find a meaning to their miserable lives. Official Selection Frameline Film Festival 2025

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In Chinese, ‘golden-age’ and ‘mirage’ share the same sound. On the 2024 Winter Solstice in Yiwu, China’s largest trading hub, single mother Yu considers closing her accessory shop and returning to her old opera job amid the 2024 economic decoupling. It’s a story of my mum, one day of her life. An experimental cross-cultural moving-image work exploring memory, labour and urban transformation through long-take narrative and hybrid documentary aesthetics. Official Selection 36th JCC Carthage Film Festival - World premiere Official Selection Premiers Plans Film Festival Angers 2026

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ALSO RESISTERS considers solidarity across generations and geography. Adapted from a 1968 essay by the gay American socialist David E. McReynolds, the short archival film takes the images and sounds of the American war in Vietnam to reflect on the feedback loop between militarism abroad and at home - and the people who resisted it. Official Selection DOC NYC 2025 - Shorts Competition

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A dance film that draws inspiration from Pina Bausch’s work, exploring the hidden power dynamics within society. The film follows two cleaners who, through the possessions they find in a messy hotel suite, begin to imagine and embody the lives of the guests.

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APPLE GATHERERS explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction in a labour-intensive world of two main characters and the brief reprieve they have in moments of real human connection. The moment is fleeting, yet powerful - at the same time, it can be interpreted as the single strand that binds them to their drudgery. Set at the bottom of a hierarchical apple cider factory where every aspect of apple production is meticulously controlled, the Peeler and the Shoveller wrestle with management to hold onto their humanity. Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025 Official Selection AFI Fest 2025 Official Selection LIAF - London International Animation Festival 2025

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A 50-year-old Australian mother, frustrated with the restrictive French education system, secretly embarks on a road trip with her 8-year-old son to create a more open-minded and experiential childhood - only to be stopped by authorities who question whether she is truly his mother.

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A Hypnotherapist tries to get revenge for his daughter's death at the hands of a domestic abuser. One of his patients presents as in an abusive relationship and seeks his help. But nothing is as it seems and the Hypnotherapist finds himself in a tangled web of lies and deceit.