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Sheamy, an Irish ex-priest recently released from prison, arrives in London searching for his former mentor in faith, Father Brendan. Sheamy becomes romantically involved with Londoner, Katie, a survivor of rape who wants to get her sex life up and running again!

As their relationship develops, Katie's demons are laid to rest but Sheamy's explode. Sheamy reveals that he was sexually abused as a boy by Father Brendan, but frames it as a 'great love'.

Katie appalled leaves him. Sheamy facing the truth goes crazy and branding Father Brendan a hypocrite attacks him in a church while Fr Brendan is saying Mass.

He is arrested and again is set to return to prison.

Is Sheamy trapped, doomed by past, fate – or can he finally find justice?

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On her 16th birthday in a small factory town in North Wales, Tina dreams of escaping her inevitable blue collar destiny - the production lines of the local chicken factory.

Frustrated by her lack of choices Tina yearns to raise her status above the expected. But will she fail? A poetic tale of the journey from childhood to adulthood.

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Jack, a sales rep, witnesses the kidnapping of a female jogger. After following the kidnapper to his house and trying to save the jogger, Jack realises things aren't quite what they seem.

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In 1943 Alastair Pennington was an 18-year-old bomber pilot on his first mission. He lost his way and, harassed by enemy fighters, elected to jettison his bombs over what turned out to have been a small village. Plagued by guild for 65 years, he determines to embark upon a long-planned journey of atonement, driving to Germany in the company of his wife Valerie and useless son Ross. A bittersweet comedy about family, memory, guilt, love and assorted annoyances.
 

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Bunny and the Bull is a comedy road movie set entirely in a flat. Stephen Turnbull hasn't been outside in months, and when he finds his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek around Europe he undertook with his friend Bunny a catalogue of adventures unfolds. Stephen's flat becomes the springboard for an extraordinary odyssey through lands made up of snapshots and souvenir replica landmarks within his imagination. Bunny and the Bull is a touching and beautiful journey to the end of the room.

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Cuckoo (Cwcw) is the story of Jane Jones, a jobbing writer in Cardiff, Wales writing episodes for the awful soap opera called 'Family Doctor' starring the 'heroic' Dr. Gareth. Her marriage to the actor Sam Llywelyn is a battlefield due to his alcoholsim and her co-dependency. Following a series of disasters, she runs away on impulse with a total stranger and re-creates herself as someone else somewhere else. except, when you run from the past, it tends to follow!

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A thriller, Dark Nature's story revolves around a family holiday gone wrong, as a mother and daughter's trip to an isolated community turns into a nightmare. Dark Nature is a modern eco-thriller that took inspiration from the zeitgeist of 1970’s productions like Deliverance, Long Weekend and Island of the Damned.
 

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In 1985 South Africa burns as the vile Apartheid regime crumbles. In the months leading up to this historic moment, a group of men hold secret talks to bring about peace and democracy to the nation. Under constant threat and fearful for their lives, a gathering of ANC ‘terrorists’ led by the now president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki and key Afrikaner representatives meet in a manor house in South East England.

Against all the odds, through volatile discussions, set backs and breakthroughs, the secret talks in Britain achieve a precious arena of frail trust between the two archenemies. While Mandela’s tense negotiations at Pollsmoor Prison and later in the heavily bugged warden’s villa at Victor Verster Prison prove fruitful, the courage of the unsung heroes at the crucial British talks begin to show results.

But will they live to see the peace they are striving so hard for? In the climate of the ‘war on terror’ we all now live in, this inspiring film based on Robert Harvey’s acclaimed book ‘The Fall of Apartheid’ has never had more relevance.

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Far North is a dark and tragic epic thriller about the battle for survival. Saiva and her adopted daughter Anja live in near isolation as they are forced further North on the Arctic Tundra. One day a figure Loki appears on the ice and collapses. Against her better judgement Saiva nurses him back to health setting in motion the devastating finale as Saiva and Anja compete for Loki's attention.

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Max is dead. Who's to blame? A dark tale of suicide, revenge and - Bluetooth.

Akeem is a troubled teenager grappling with the loss of his best friend Max through suicide. It is an unlikely assortment of bullies led by the narcissistic, abhorrent and cruel Kino that Akeem blames for the death, having drawn Max into a game and subjected him to a sustained torment of bullying recorded on mobile phone.

Even after the death, Kino continues in his attempts to manipulate Akeem, trying to pin the blame on him. Haunted by Max's death and constantly reminded of his involvement Akeem, the victim and willing participant in Kino's game to humiliate Max descends into madness and his grip on reality begins to slip.

He sets out to expunge the memory of his friend's painful past and embarks on a crusade to bring down the gang and destroy their reign of terror. Now out of control vigilante-style and equipped with a mobile phone he uses for surveillance of the gang, he becomes less engaged with personal interactions and more fixated with documenting them with violent consequences...

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A man and a woman meet in a quiet English seaside town out of season. We learn that they have met online, and that this is their first meeting. But all is not as it seems, especially once they have got back to the hotel room booked for the occasion, and the true purpose of their liaison starts to become apparent.

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Ondene is beautiful, talented, and destined to study law at Oxford if she gets good A-levels. Nothing less will satisfy her domineering, mother, Hyacinth.
When a, basketball court is set up near her private school, Ondene is charmed by a charismatic, freestyle basketball player, Leon, and they decide to enter a competition. From a deprived background, Leon dreams of going to university, and needs to win to pay his way.
Ondene deceives Hyacinth to be with Leon, and romance blossoms. But just before the freestyle basketball and A-level finals, Hyacinth finds out, and splits them up. Angered by Hyacinth's interference, Ondene decides to take charge of her life but she has to make tough decisions about her family, education, and the man she loves.