Projects with status: Complete

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When fate brings disillusioned music teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the sound of Irish music is changed forever. Under the name Kneecap, their band begin moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic and hedonistic lives. A language encumbered with forty words for stone now has one for stoned. But to get their voices heard the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians as the future status of the Irish language erupts into the public arena. Yet their worst enemies are often themselves, as their illegal exploits, families and relationship pressures threaten to pull the plug on their dreams. Across the globe a language dies every two weeks. This is a darkly comic story about our intrinsic human urge for identity; whether personal, political or artistic. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - NEXT - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024

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A struggling British-Palestinian drag performer catches the attention of a successful white gay man in this semi-autobiographical queer love story. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A romantic thriller set in the world of competitive body-building, fuelled by ego, desire and the American Dream. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - Premieres - World premiere Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

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MIRAGE - EIGENSTATE weaves together analogous investigations into the nature of reality, positioning Western science as just one methodology among many in a constellation of pluralistic worldviews. The film explores different interpretations of reality, from Sufi mysticism and Monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics. Edited in the style of American astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan’s 1980s television show, 'Cosmos', which sought to explain the origin of life and the fourth spatial dimension, MIRAGE - EIGENSTATE references scientific mass communication, where complex concepts are described in straightforward ways, often through images. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Forum Expanded - International premiere

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From the deep snow of the Belarusian forest to the heat of the reeds in the French Camargue, Mother Vera is the story of a young Orthodox nun; her turbulent past, and fragile future. Revealed through spellbinding visual language echoing the rigid discipline of monastic life, we enter the enclosed, shadowy spaces of a convent outside Minsk. Sound and silence submerge us in the rhythm of the place. At the monastery farm, two hundred men live in rehabilitation. They are a mirror to Vera’s old life. Faced with a life-changing decision, Vera must confront her past to find the freedom she desires. Official Selection Visions du Réel 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition

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Kira is an ambitious photographer who wants to exploit her 'exotic' Eastern heritage to gain recognition in the cutthroat art scene in London. Travelling back to her homeland for an art project, she ends up entrapped in the enigmatic heart of her ancestral homeland.

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A queer couple make a surreptitious visit to the lake where they first met for one more adventure.

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Set in a foldable paper world, this top-down puzzle-adventure about leaving home invites you to uncover hidden routes and secret pathways. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Games Lounge

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Phil Thomas was a painter and decorator for over 30 years before deciding to devote his every waking moment and energy to art and become an artist painter full time. As he himself says ‘painter to painter’

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Zero opportunity, poverty and crime. Common themes in the housing estates of Sunderland, North East England where POISED is set. A once proud region of industry. Now a wasteland scattered with the relics of the past, as generations of government continue to neglect it. Steven France, community activist and mixed martial arts coach (MMA), haunted by the death of step-father 'Mickey', found MMA as his saviour from the trappings of these very estates. Determined to force change from within. His objective; to do the same with a group of youngsters, each facing their own unique challenges. Be it battles with drugs to unemployment and poverty, the weight of terminal illness or the trials of immigration abandoning family, thousands of miles away. Can MMA save young people from the toughest parts of our society? A universal underdog tale - there is a version of POISED happening in every city, town or village the world over, each with it's own unique twist. This is ours. Official Selection Doc Edge International Film Festival 2024

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An animated exploration of bipolar disorder, based on testimonials. An avalanche changes a polar bear's life, setting him on an adventure through the highs and lows of life on a fantasy planet.

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The uncanny absurdism of an Israeli theme park built in the Palestinian West Bank becomes a tragic allegory for the delusions that are needed to make sense of Israeli society. Official Selection DOC NYC 2024