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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.

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Investigative journalist, Chris Davenport, is hot on the trail of the mysterious Bug-man: a serial killer with a penchant for pulp horror novels. Desperately trying to convince the long-suffering Detective Jamison to listen to his outlandish theories is no easy task and things become all the more complicated when Davenport becomes embroiled in several strange incidents within his tiny community. As he tries to deal with crazy genius doctors, sarcastic book clerks, post-modern voodoo and alien-robot space porn, Davenport discovers that, deep inside all the weirdness, is a link back to his own troubled childhood.  

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Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the ultra conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from loser to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.

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Hunger follows life in the Maze prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA hunger strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.