Projects in categories: Fiction

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A taxidermist named Araminta seeks to preserve a human specimen when Bernie volunteers himself. Their unusual arrangement evolves into an unexpected love story. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

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When 12-year-old Maya returns to rural India to reconnect with her estranged father, an accident linked to his illicit sand mining operation forces her to confront the dark truths beneath her family’s legacy. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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CIA agents Chris and Lee face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile. Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2026 - International premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Mar del Plate International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Busan International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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Set high in the mountains - Autumn comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead. Adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s short story 'A Long Winter'. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Busan International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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Sami, a Syrian refugee in the UK, and Bryony, an aimless young librarian, embark on a highly personal quest to preserve a bell from a demolished Christian church. What begins as a civic protest quickly becomes a criminal case when they accidentally near fatally injure a security guard, and find themselves on the run from the police. However, our accidental heroes’ fate is sealed by a kindly police sergeant who is moved by their mission, and our odd-couple achieve their goal of saving the bell and reminding the town they both call home about the importance of remembering its own story.

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Preparing for gender-affirming surgery, a trans man discovers he is pregnant, forcing a profound reckoning with identity, masculinity, and fatherhood. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - Short Cuts - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026 - Shorts Competition - European premiere BFI London Film Festival 2026 - Winner Best Short Film

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A dysfunctional and toxic rock band is barely being held together by their stressed-out manager. With one last concert to impress a record label and get signed, the band's future hangs in the balance as tensions threaten to tear them apart.

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1974. A young woman flees war-torn Cyprus and heads to apartheid South Africa and an arranged marriage. But as an unlikely friendship with a local Black woman unfolds, her buried truth surfaces forcing love and prejudice to collide. A story of friendship and self-discovery, of finding your place in a world fraught with violence and division.

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Guided through shifting realms shaped by memory, spirit and emotion, Maleek is forced to confront the unresolved wounds that continue to echo across generations. As reality blurs and time slips away, what begins as a search for connection becomes a journey of healing and transformation. Official Selection, S.O.U.L Festival 2026

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A mystery-thriller, following a man whose world unravels after an intimate encounter, exploring the lengths someone will go to in order to hide their true self. Official selection Zurich Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official selection Busan International Film Festival 2026 Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2026 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2026

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BLACK NOISE is a tale of those two uneasy bedfellows: Justice and Revenge. ​In a decaying country house hotel that once hid a brutal orphanage, Leda, a ghostwriter, arrives to interview a wealthy, dysfunctional family - intent on exposing their crimes. As she’s drawn under the spell of the enigmatic Butler and his ghostly silent staff, reality dissolves into hallucinatory fever dreams and the nightmarish black noise that accompanies them. Might it be that Leda has a fractured psyche? Herself also a victim of the abuse she seeks to uncover, stuck in a never-ending search for answers hidden deep within. A lavish memorial banquet becomes a Grand Guignol massacre, forcing her to confront how far she will go for justice and whether revenge can ever purge the atrocities of the past. ​​A strangely seductive fantasy, richly atmospheric, a fractured narrative which slowly reveals itself as a cinematic fever dream. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2026 - World premiere

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An observation and comparison of two contrasting relationships experienced by the same young fella a few years apart from each other. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2026 - World premiere