Projects

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Monsoon Shootout explores the impact that one’s choices make on the lives of others. As heavy monsoon rains lash the badlands of Mumbai, Adi, a rookie cop out on his first assignment faces a life altering decision when he must decide whether to shoot or not to shoot. The film presents three scenarios, all resulting from the decision that Adi makes. Each decision takes him on a journey that pits him against a system that demands a compromise on his morals. Finally, however, Adi and we come to understand that every choice has its price.

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Gwyn is confused. Who is he, how should he act? He’s 15 and neither of these things are clear. He’s on the edge of being eased-out from his visits to see his best-friend’s girlfriend, he’s on the verge of getting beaten-up. Can he survive and protect his most important relationship?

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A man in a circular room explores a curious phenomenon, in which 8 synchronised versions of himself temporarily form to create a rotationally symmetric, kaleidoscopic world.

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A poetic documentary following Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's journey through Iran in 1951 on an assignment to write a publicity film for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Combining archival photographs with Thomas's own words (spoken by actor Michael Sheen), the film captures the poet's haunting vision of oil, colonialism and exploitation.

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A spoof documentary outlining the use of a live cloned donor for organ transplants.

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Ben, a passionate seven year-old boy harbouring a burning desire to fly to the moon; plans his lunar mission amid the flurry of his big sister’s wedding day. An intergalactic voyage through his family sees him battling aliens, saving the princess and trying to seek a little bit of attention.

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A modernization of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven, in which the "Cowboys" are a local amateur soccer team, the "Villagers" are the owners of a local Tandoori restaurant, and the "Bandits" are a gang of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as American Bob.

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February 2013, a group of people came together with one question in mind "What if we forget?" The seaside town of Folkestone was the gateway to the war for over eight million troops. With the First World War moving out of living memory what does that mean for us?

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Pietro lets us follow him along this slice of adolescence where little things, hidden to the eyes of the ones who can’t observe, can reveal the ironic and subtle beauty of life.

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Reality or your perception of it? A jealous husband, seeking the truth about his wife's infidelity, sets in motion a chain of events with unexpected consequences.

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Two brothers, both wonderful chefs, fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half – one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides of the same road, and spend the next twenty years trying to outdo each other. Neither brother will admit it but they both know they are not entirely successful in the ‘other half’ of the menu. It takes a daughter – a successful London lawyer, Shalini, marrying a man from a different ethnic background – to reunite them. She is planning her marriage and is determined that they will both attend. Can the men bury the hatchet without actually burying the kitchen knife?

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Late night in a burger bar: Gay and straight, male and female, couples, singles and friends are observed by filmmaker Magnus Mork in this short drama filmed on location in a Cardiff burger bar. Burger is the fourth short film to be produced by the Iris Prize.