Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Unravel follows women workers in textile factories who sort, shred and prepare clothes for recycling that come over from Western countries. They reflect on these clothes and construct a picture of the lives of the owners, using their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs.

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On The Edge is a witty, surprising and ultimately feel good portrait of an isolated village of 59 people and 100 sledge dogs, surviving against the odds.

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Ten days of mercy, introspection and forgiveness.

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On 3rd September 1860 Charles Dickens burned his lifetime’s correspondence. Alone on the darkest night of his life he reads a letter full of love and restraint from Nelly Ternan, showing us the private world of Charles Dickens through the eyes of a young woman forever hidden from his public.

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Matthew, a reclusive lighthouse keeper, decides to spend one more night at the facility where he worked and lived for most of his life. Overnight, a mysterious fog moves inland from the sea. The next day, he discovers that all islanders around him have slipped into a state of coma.

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11 year old Khalid is forced to run out into the middle of the night to save his 11 year old Christian friend, Obi, from a religious war neither of them understands.

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Spring 1945. As the German front collapses, the Allied forces take control of Hitler’s country. With her Nazi parents imprisoned, 14-year-old Lore is left alone in charge of her four young siblings. The only place they can go is their grandmother’s house, 900km north. Embarking on a journey across the devastated country, the children struggle to survive, slowly realizing the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. When Thomas, a young Jewish refugee, offers his help, Lore has to learn to trust a person whom she had always been told was the enemy.

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How well do you know yourself and those you love? Returning home from work, Mia witnesses an aged woman leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredded pieces from a beloved photograph of herself and her former lover Ludwig. Highly unnerved, Mia begs Max, the building's all-knowing custodian, to let her into the deceased woman’s flat. While inside this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes the contents as her own. Confused and disturbed by what lies before her, she bolts back and forth in time where she is forced to realize it was her very own life that ended before her. Now, the only way to safeguard her future is to go back to her past and confront the man she loves deeply but dreads most.

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In a small rural community of the remote Upper Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, two young sisters struggle with the onset of separation. As they try to make sense of their changing world we slowly discover a lost world where development threatens to tear the sisters apart.

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Amelia is a 7 year-old dyslexic who has learned to transform her shortcomings into creativity; when confronted with the unforgiving restrictions of the classroom she will use her imagination to overcome her obstacles.

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A young girl finds her own way to celebrate her father's life.

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A bear moves to the woods, but finds out that he doesn’t like the mess.