Projects in categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Disillusioned reporter, Godwin, arrives in a West-African village to cover a local festival, but soon finds himself swept up in a witchhunt.

A series of misfortunes leads villagers to accuse a young, mute girl of being a witch. Their Pastor insists that the only hope of salvation lies in her exorcism and death. His compelling rhetoric and ability to incite fear into the people splits the village and threatens to tear their fragile world apart.

Godwin and a young school teacher attempt to save the girl’s life, bravely fighting back against corruption and false prophets.

Based on True Events, The Cursed Ones is a story of morality, religion, corruption and community in the dark heart of Africa.

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Two young sisters watch Sam, their new teenage neighbour from afar. They track his movements on and offline. When they finally meet him, 10 year-old Dani strikes up a friendship and stops her spying, preferring to enjoy his company. But teenage Louisa takes a different path. During her continued surveillance of him she slips into obsession before stumbling across another observer.

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Ireland, 1892. A widowed mother forms a sinister relationship with the body of her husband, leaving it to her son to do all he can to part the living and the dead.

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When two young lovers crash their car into a ravine in the remote mountains of Wales, they are plunged into a lost world. Dragged from the river by a mysterious figure, they are taken to a ramshackle farm, a place untouched by time.
As events unfold we learn the explosive truth about the young couple’s past. More unsettling still, we discover the ghostly truth about Stanley, and the tragedy of the valley he once called home.

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Twenty-four hours in the lives of six friends, examining the intricate weave of words, actions and emotions that unknowingly link and change the direction of their lives. And, the difficulties that debt, sickness, lies, drugs, pregnancy, unrequited love and assault bring when they weave their way into their ordinary lives.

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'Macbeth' is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader brought low by ambition and desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a reimagining of what wartime must have been like for one of Shakespeare’s most famous and compelling characters, a story of all-consuming passion and ambition, set in a war torn Scottish landscape.
Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition

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Renowned photojournalist Jennifer Preston, investigates the aftermath of a freak explosion of unknown origin at the center of her hedonistic city. Known simply as ‘the Catastrophe’, this shocking tragedy has left behind a festering wound on the city’s psyche: a several square mile Quarantine Zone (known as the QZ) of evacuated buildings and abandoned streets. Nobody in nobody out! Jennifer begins to see strange ephemeral phantoms in her photographs. She soon becomes obsessed with the idea that a paranormal phenomenon has been unleashed.

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An animated feature about a group of strange individuals that embark on a voyage with the aim of capturing the Snark, regardless of the fact that none of them even know what it is, or how to catch it.
Based on Lewis Carroll's poem 'The Hunting of the Snark'.

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In Khon Kaen a lonesome middle-aged housewife tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance.
"I write this film as a rumination on Thailand, a feverish nation. It will be the first film that takes place entirely in my hometown, Khon Kaen. It’s also a very personal portrait of the places that have latched onto me like parasites - the elementary school, the hospital, the library, the lake. Like the sleepers in this film, I shun the malady of reality, and together we take refuge in dreams of forever." Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Official Competition

Synopsis

Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers, Ronnie and Reggie Kray who quickly fought their way to becoming the most feared and respected villains in all of London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, their rise to infamy is chartered through drugs, sex and murder.

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VE Day, 1945. Across the world, people are celebrating the end of the war. London overflows with celebration and excess. Two teenage sisters are allowed out at night for the first time to join the party. They have an amazing adventure; it’s like a first date. Our two teenagers are Princess Margaret and the future queen of England, Elizabeth II.
UK release May 2015

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Melvin, a reluctant American superhero, lives only for crime, women and drugs – until he realises that the only way he will ever get to see his estranged son is to go straight. But in a world where no-one understands Melvin’s condition, his incredible powers could ultimately be his demise.