Projects with status: Complete

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On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - North American premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Official Competition

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Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition

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Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different -September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is suspended from their school, July is left to fend for herself and begins to assert her own independence - which does not go unnoticed by September. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland, where July finds her bond with September shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand or control - and a series of surreal encounters test the family to their limit. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Un Certain Regard - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

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A Mumbai-set twisted love story - A fantastical punk comedy, a feminist revenge film, and a revamped vampire movie rolled into one. An original, funny and macabre tale centred on a rebellious, misanthropic character. We follow the trials and tribulations of Uma – a young, newly-married woman – who discovers the realities of married life in a Bombay slum, and whose thirst for vengeance will not be abated. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - In Competition - World premiere Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024

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When a man returns to his beach side hometown in Australia, he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local group of surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Midnight Screenings - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere Official Selection San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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Two estranged friends reunite over tea, only to unveil a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere

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Documenting the annual round up of wild Carneddau mountain ponies in Wales - organised by local farmers, it's the only intervention in the ponies' lives, who otherwise graze undisturbed whilst conserving their mountain habitat. The film follows the event, becoming increasingly engulfed in complex dynamics of capture and care. Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2024 - World premiere

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Daniel has kept the keys to all the places he ever lived. Lena wants to use them – on the ultimate property porn tour of London, a lost weekend of getting to know each other intimately in other people’s homes. But as Lena unlocks her lover’s past, what began as a risky fantasy becomes a deadly threat. Official Selection SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection FrightFest 2024

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A fly on the wall mini doc on the daily activities of engineers in London fixing elevators - showing a day with the teams out on various sites and showing the works that are undertaken by the site teams.

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After enduring decades of embarrassment, the filmmaker admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, BEING JOHN SMITH takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.