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Short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.

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It's a mad world - so who's to say who or what is crazy? Out of order? Or not normal?  Where do we draw the fine line between what is 'funny mad' or just 'plain insane'? When does a disorder define as dysfunctional? Funny Farm turns the commonly-held concept of what is unacceptably 'crazy' on its hilarious head - and enlightens the world of rehabilitation, relapse and recovery with a little laughter, debunking the Anglo-American culture of 'therapy' along the way.

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Gamerz is a new comedy movie from Scotland - an engaging love triangle with a strong twist of fantasy. The hero is Ralph, a young nerd from a bad neighbourhood who's on his way to university for the first time. Ralph is completely downtrodden in life, but he escapes from a cruel reality that he can't control by creating insanely detailed fantasy game worlds (as in fantasy games such as 'Dungeons and Dragons' and 'Tunnels and Trolls'), where he is firmly in charge, as 'Game Keeper'. When Ralph arrives at university he immediately takes over the fantasy role-playing society in a ruthless coup. His new players include neurotic risk management student Davy, metal-head theology student Hank and, most importantly, the beautiful Marlyn, a crazy Goth chick who believes she is an elf. She's the ultimate object of geek lust, and Ralph falls for her hard. But there's a fly in the ointment: Ralph's old enemy from the hood, minor dope dealer Lennie, who has undergone a near-religious conversion to all things fantastical, having watched a Lord of the Rings triple bill while on acid. Now he's desperate to take part in Ralph's game. Under pain of violence Ralph agrees to let him play, but soon regrets it when he notices a spark between Lennie and Marlyn. The seeds of a bitter love triangle are sown, and the story soon snowballs towards an inexorable apocalyptic explosion of freakish, geekish angst.  

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Richard Atlas was once one of the top documentary television presenters of all time, but that was five years ago! Now he is a washed up has-been who nobody wants to hire. In desperation Richard called on his former assistant and lover Pippa Johnston, the brains behind his original success. Richard would like to get back with Pippa, but Pippa likes thier new assistant Ryan Benton, but Ryan has enough to deal with his job as a communty career and the fact that he's being stalked by a mythical creature. A Griffin!

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Have you ever wanted to play a game but didn’t have who to play it with? Guaruja, a wonderful movie exposes the lives of two people, Paulo and Angela who found in each other their perfect playmates. The movie is structured in an episodic narrative and the setting is an idyllic apartment facing the beaches of Brazil. There they hide and seek, play music, dance and make love. They pretend to be away from each other, prepare fictional dinners and feast on political nonsense. The couple is interpreted by four actors and each scene brings a different pair of actors to the game. Sometimes a man and a woman and other times two men or two women play them. Thus creating the idea that this is a game common to many relationships. People of different genders, sexual roles and ages are all welcomed to play. Paulo and Angela always believe love is a playful game and life is the game to play.

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Heavy Pockets is a six-minute animated film about a girl who loses her gravity. Initially embarrassed by this amazing gift, Awel Jones becomes isolated from the other kids at school and only her sister is aware of her hidden talent. However, after being forced to confront the school bullies her secret is revealed and her classmates must marvel at her incredible floating skills.

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Home is the story of Mark, a man who lives rough on the streets. His days are spent begging for small change, as the world moves round him. But what lead him to a life on the streets? Based on real events, Home moves back through Mark's life to discover a past far removed from his present reality.

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Hope follows the isolated and lonely life that someone can have when they believe that they don't fit in. It shows that hope can come in unexpected forms and when you least expect it.

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A stranger-than-fiction horror story, based on true events that shocked America in 1970. Announced on the main evening news: a 13-year-old girl is discovered in an LA suburb after being held prisoner in a room, harnessed to a potty chair for 12 years. Genie, as scientists later named her, was the perfectly hidden horror in the outwardly uneventful suburbia.

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A poisoned man and a stranger stumble across a doorway in an abandoned building that makes things disappear - When the stranger walks through and vanishes, the poisoned man is left alone to face an angered man with a crazy disposition. But what's waiting for him through the door is much more dangerous than he'd care to realise.

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A manic tale about a man who is scared of the dark and tries at all costs to recreate the sun in his loft to to make the dark vanish from his life forever.

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In a secure institution scientists monitor the thoughts of prisoner 364. Who is the strange figure he has made contact with?