Projects in categories: Fiction

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In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.

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Shot over the course of five years, this documentary-style feature from prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom offers a masterful meditation on the daily travails of a family living apart from their imprisoned patriarch (TIFF 2012).

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Adapted from Ayub Khan-Din's critically acclaimed West End and Broadway production, 'Rafta Rafta', All In Good Time is a comedy set in an immigrant Indian community in Northern England, where two newlyweds find it hard to consummate their marriage. From the director of Made in Dagenham and Calendar Girls.

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With the world in financial turmoil, Kurt Wendell has lost his top job in the city but cannot bear to tell his family the dreadful truth. Luckily he’s a man who knows how to make serious cutbacks… Granting his children a day off school and his wife a day off work, Kurt drives the whole family to a remote spot, miles from civilization. Little do they know what he has in store for them… One last bit of business, a final project that is both sinister and deadly, involving his wife, his children, and the savagely beaten man trapped in the attic… It’s not only Kurt Wendell that’s getting AXED, as his ex-boss and his horrified family are about to find out, one by one…

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Stella's beloved dog Frida has been sold. In a neighborhood where people have withdrawn into their cocoons, Stella must emerge from hers and take up a bizarre job if she wants to get Frida back.

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A desperate man hires a professional crime coach to teach him how to become a criminal.

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Ian (Ed Hogg), a charismatic new spatial orientation instructor, arrives at a topnotch school for the visually impaired. The head teacher hires Ian under condition that the children will not be exposed to any danger as they learn to move around by themselves. Ian’s unconventional techniques intrigue the children and embolden them to explore their surroundings. But more than only teaching them how to move without a cane, Ian encourages his students to develop their vision of the world. Among his students, a young woman called Eva (Alexandra Maria Lara), is withdrawn and secluded. Ian concentrates his efforts to make her overcome her shyness. He brings her outside the clinic without permission to help her rediscover the pleasures of life. Because of Ian’s insubordination, the Headmaster is forced to make him leave the clinic, to avoid putting the patients at any further risk. The clinic administration tells the students that Ian ingeniously tricked them by using a sensor in his pocket. Eva and Serrano, one of Ian’s best students, have their doubts. Using Ian’s teachings, they decide one evening to leave the clinic to be confronted with the outside world and try to discover the truth about Ian.

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A twisted burglary, a failed revenge, and two mens search for the perfect women in each other. James has gone bankrupt and in a bizarre mission to change himself for the better he tries cross dressing as a woman. James "Im terrified of getting old and looking at some tight piece of heaven and feeling totally.... irrelevant." School teacher, Gary, finds his parents murdered in their house after a bungled robbery. Discovering a vital piece of evidence, Gary, finds the opportunity to avenge his parents murder, the unplanned attack results in him suffering life changing injuries of his own, forcing him to reevaluate his own life. Just as James (now cross-dressing full time) and Gary's lives appear to be spiralling dangerously out of control, a chance meeting between the two men, brings them to discover a new perspective that is more liberating than either could have imagined. But before James and Gary can move on from the painful decisions of their past, they need to make a few more about their future. James "We are morally bound to teach this bitch (Zoe) a lesson, but first we have to get this garden done." And these ones will kill.

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In 1977 NASA sent a Golden Record into space. It encapsulated the greatest achievements of humankind, and included photographs of its species. One of these photos is of Larry, a feat he hopes will propel him to the status of the first 'Earth Ambassador!'

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An intimate and intense portrayal of the effects on one woman of betrayal and the physical abuse of sex trafficking. 'Sorrow' is locked away in a room reflecting on her captivity. We hear her inner voice, in a drama which shuns the sensationalising and politicising in many contemporary human trafficking films.

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An unemployed stay at home dad begins venturing out at night. Befriended by a group of petty criminals and strippers, he begins to feel alive. But when he is implicated in a murder, he finds himself indebted to a psychotic gangster and is drawn into a world of violence that threatens his life and his family's safety.

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A curious and mischievous child disobeys a rule and plays football against a forbidden wall. The ball then dinks over into a world where little boys like him are destined to go.