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Inspired by the BUPA Great North Run, Best's unqiue style of hand drawn animation captures the atmosphere of the event and the participating runners. Using a process called ‘occlusion’, silhouetted figures are made visible only as they pass each other. This emphasises the individual’s singular effort in amongst the crowd.

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Set in and around the women’s prison at Millbank in the 1870s, Affinity is an eerie and utterly compelling ghost story, a complex and intriguing mystery and a poignant love story with an unexpected twist in the tale. Following the death of her father, Margaret Prior has decided to pursue some 'good work' with the lady criminals of one of London’s most notorious gaols. Surrounded by prisoners, murderers and common thieves, Margaret feels herself drawn to one of the prison's more unlikely inmates – the imprisoned spiritualist Selina Dawes who weaves an enigmatic spell. Is she a fraud, or a prodigy? Sympathetic to the plight of the innocent-seeming Selina, Margaret sees herself dispensing guidance and perhaps friendship on her visits, little expecting to find herself dabbling in a twilight world of séances, shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions. By the time it all begins to matter the viewer will find themselves desperately wanting to believe in the magic.

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Nineteen, washed up and pissed off, Daryl is going nowhere fast. His 'not quite' girlfriend wants to get on Coronation Street! His mother does his head in and there's the boat! That big daft, stupid stuck boat.

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A woman comes to terms with her loneliness and isolation, by keeping in contact with other humans in an unusual way. This powerful short film touches the very soul of our existence, and leaves us questioning the woman’s plight, and what it is to be human.

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The legacy of Matsuo Basho (1644 – 1694), famous Japanese poet, is his elevation of haiku to the realm of high poetry. This film reveals a glimpse into an account of one of Basho’s journeys in the company of confidante and disciple, Chiri.

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A film about Denmark's most well know and debated whistleblower - former Military Intelligence Officer Frank Grevil and his 14 year old daughter.
In 2004 Frank leaked confidential rapports regarding information on how The Military Intelligence estimated the possibilities of Iraq being in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Frank, a widower and father of a teenage daughter is now facing a prison sentence due to his actions. How will they cope? And what was his real motive?

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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!