Projects in genres: Woman Director

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In a dull, organised world a curious girl longs for some joy — against the wishes of her rule-obeying mother. When the girl follows a strange cat that doesn’t fit into society’s standards, she discovers a boisterous underground filled with life. She decides to introduce it to the surface.

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In a small house in the clouds, two small characters are making tea amongst the rubble and trying to put the pieces together. This skin we're in is a drawn animation about domesticity, mental illness, and daily life in the aftermath.

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A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love. Based on Ivan Turgenev's play ' A Month in the Country'

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A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain.
After Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic.
From unpredictable first-time neurological experiments, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered mind Lotje takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite.

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The myth of the black mirror as a source of knowledge provides the platform for a deeply original film, which bridges scientific diligence with artistic freedom.

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‘Breake off this last lamenting kisse, which sucks two soules and vapors both away.’ Inspired by John Donne’s poem, The Expiration reveals the bittersweet moments of a love’s last breath. An evocative, inner journey of two lovers as they accept they must reluctantly part forever.

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The documentary feature 'Queens of Syria' tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy all about the plight of women in war.
What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War.

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Burnsworth, Lancashire is a shithole. And best friends John and Matt want more from life than just the prospect of a dead-end factory job in their small northern town. They find their horizons opened up by the discovery of black American soul music and the British Northern Soul dance scene. They dream of going to America to find the soul record which will make them big DJs on the scene. But the intensity of their rivalry changes their lives forever.

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An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Inspired by a true story about an outbreak of mass hysteria in a girls' high school in England in the 1960s, 'The Falling' tells the story of Louise, the troubled girl at the centre of a mysterious fainting epidemic, who is determined to find out the cause of the illness spreading through her school.
London Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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A documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.

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“'O, Persecuted' turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film, 'Our Small Houses', into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.” —Basma Alsharif
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand