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On his way home from work, Daddy phones home and gets the shock of his life, quickly followed by the surprise of a lifetime.

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Dallas plays with the eponymous nature of this TV series, broadcast in many countries, it became a short hand for both American glamour and corruption, and indeed both repelled and seduced audiences in its relentless drama of power play and cliché. Here, in Dallas, the entire viewing-year of 1980 - a total of 18 episodes – is compressed into a 50-min, all-at-once experience. As text is layered over text, the compression and corruption here is spatial and temporal. The ghostly figures loom in a milky underworld, moving around a familiar scape of Texas with its skyscrapers and vast landscapes. In a way, what we are presented with promises to be in some way an ‘essence’, an undiluted version of the ‘original’ and to an extent this is true. Yet there is also a haunting quality to this work, where iconic faces loom, notorious events referenced and lines delivered; yet there is a disjunction at the heart of Dallas. It is a culture that is at once familiar and disorientating, Dallas appears to be a dreamscape of different order, more nightmare than escapist.

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Dear Wendy is a story about the young loner Dick who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies. A club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.

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A devil dances to techno in the forest. He comes across a group of campers by a fire and dances them into oblivion.

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In an unknown foreign city, a young woman, Anna, is thrown onto the street, her mind full of pain and with no memory of who she is. A few miles away a man, Morgan, wakes in a cold dirty river. He also has no memory of who or where he is. The two walk the streets, helpless and alone, trying to make sense of what is happening to them from the jumble of strange faces and voices that speak to them. Driven by nightmarish visions and attacks by hostile shadowy figures, they are suddenly thrown together when Anna is taken over by the intense pain in her head and, out of control, she unknowingly kills a man. Attempting to escape the city together and with no one else to help them they are forced to trust each other. Trust turns to something deeper, and the two feel a strong connection. A strong powerful bond, as if they already know each other. Unknown to them, their every action is being guided and manipulated by unseen forces operating from deep within the underground of the city. Anna has been implanted with a chip that is programmed to kill. Morgan is her target. Originally kidnapped from England and their memories wiped, Anna and Morgan are actually husband and wife, and now that bond is being put to the test in a deadly experiment. As the terrible conclusion to the experiment races closer there is a shocking secret still to be revealed. There is no escape in this dark and terrifying psychological thriller.  

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On the rooftop of a building in a city, a desperate man stands dangerously close to the edge. The powerful gaze of a young girl standing at a window in the opposite building disturbs him.

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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.