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Features 2008 - 2009

 

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1234 (Feature, 2008) Director: Giles Borg; Principal Cast: Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal, Kieran Bew, Mathew Baynton; Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie endures a job he despises and can’t get a girlfriend, but at least he has music. With his mate Neil, he’s been kicking about in bands for...

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25Gs (Feature, 2008) Director: Baldwin Li; Principal Cast: Joe Moan, Steve Garry, Helen Kennedy, Laura Danielle Sharp, Tommy Davies, Graham Gavin; Johnny has lost £25,000. It all happened so fast: he just put it down for a second and then it was gone. It wasn’t his to lose. It was such...

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31 North 62 East (Feature, 2009) Director: Tristan Loraine; Principal Cast: John Rhys-Davies, Heather Peace, Marina Sirtis, Craig Fairbrass; Britain in 2009. The corrupt British Prime Minister John Hammond (John Rhys-Davies) has secured an 80 billion arms deal with Afghanistan, a deal that will boost his image to the...

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7 Lives (Feature, 2009) Director: Paul Wilkins; Principal Cast: Danny Dyer, Mary Stockley, Kate Ashfield; A modern day It's a Wonderful Life about a man who gets attacked on his way home from work and falls into a parallel world where he 'lives' 6 other...

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8.5 Hours (Feature, 2008) Director: Brian Lally; Principal Cast: Lynette Callaghan, Jonathan Byrne, Victor Burke, Art Kearns, Geraldine Plunkett, Gary Egan.; 8.5 Hours is an intense, contemporary drama about one day in the working lives of four software workers in Dublin. On one particular Monday, each of the characters finds their...

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A Certain Romance (Feature, 2008) Director: Gabriel Robertson; Principal Cast: Scott Campbell, Austin Low, Jen Byrne and Iain Andrew as Mercer; A broken chronological journey revealing a week in the life of a struggling young writer.

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Abraham's Point (Feature, 2008) Director: Wyndham Price; Principal Cast: Mackenzie Crook, Joseph Millson, Mariah Gale, Christian McKay, Harriet Walter; Mackenzie Crook plays a young man, Comet Snape, who steals a grandfather clock and sets off to bring it back to his dying father in West Wales. Sometimes poignant, often...

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Act of God (Feature, 2008) Director: Sean Faughnan; Principal Cast: David Suchet, Max Brown, Jenny Agutter, Adrian Dunbar; When hearts are a rare and valuable commodity, only the most ruthless survive.

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Adulthood (Feature, 2008) Director: Noel Clarke; Principal Cast: Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Jacob Anderson, Femi Oyeniran, Red Madrell, Ben Drew, Cornell S. John, Nathan Constance, Danny Dyer; After Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he finds difficulty adjusting to life on the outside. Sam is forced to confront the people he hurt, trying to...

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The Agent (Feature, 2008) Director: Lesley Manning; Principal Cast: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy, Maureen Lipman; It’s all in a day’s work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch… but first there is...

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Agent Crush (Feature/Animation, 2007) Director: Sean Robinson; Principal Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Brian Cox, Neve Campbell, Roger Moore, Brian Blessed, Ruby Wax, Jon Culshaw, Rula Lenska, Trevor White, Tim McInnerny, Niko Nicotera, Matthew Cureton; It’s 200 years in the future and much has changed but one thing remains a constant – crime, and it’s getting a little bizarre. Boris Goudphater is the first prototype...

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Ahlaam (Feature, 2004) Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji; This remarkable debut film plunges the viewer into the madness of occupied Baghdad circa 2003. Two inmates from a mental institution suddenly find themselves out in the streets, negotiating local...

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All Bar Love (Feature, 2007) Director: James Derbyshire; Principal Cast: Jeremy Hancock, Ben Joiner, Cloudia Swann, Joanna Farrell, Jacqueline Wilder, Doug Yacka; Martin is living a loveless and sex-starved existence. If he doesn’t pull himself together, his ex-wife will sell his beloved wine bar. Martin is cast back into the horrifying world...

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All Good Dogs Lie Down (Feature, 2008) Director: Kevin McMonagle; Principal Cast: TBA; A biopic celebrating the life of visionary musician Billy MacKenzie of the Associates. Focusing on his rise to fame and untimely death. Set at the height of the 80's.

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AmaZulu: The Children Of Heaven (Feature/Documentary, 2006) Director: Hannan Majid, Richard York; Life in a South African Township is seen through the eyes of seven pupils as they come together under the parental eye of Mr Mtshali, headmaster of Velabahleke High School....

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American: The Bill Hicks Story (Feature/Animation/Documentary, 2009) Director: Matt Harlock; Principal Cast: Mary Hicks, Steve Hicks, Lynn Hicks, Kevin Booth, Dwight Slade, David Johndrow, James Ladmirault, John Farneti, Andy Huggins, Steve Epstein ; 'At last, the true life story of the outlaw comic who tried to save the world. He still might...' Bill Hicks is considered by many to be the greatest comedian...

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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Feature, 2007) Director: Anand Tucker; Principal Cast: Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson; Based on Blake Morrison’s best selling memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father? is ultimately a father son love story. From scholarly Blake’s fraught and sometimes humiliating teenage...

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Angel (Feature, 2006) Director: Francois Ozon; Principal Cast: Romola Garai, Sam Neill, Charlotte Rampling, Lucy Russell, Michael Fassbender; Set in England at the turn of the last century, Angel recounts the glorious rise of Angel Deverell, a poor but passionately determined young woman, who climbs the social ladder...

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Arritmia (aka Guantanamero) (Feature, 2007) Director: Vicente Peñarrocha; Principal Cast: Mohamed Chafik, Rupert Evans, Derek Jacobi, Natalia Verbeke, Nicolás Belmonte, Ako Chavarri, Ismael de Diego, Said El Mouden; After a violent storm, Ali Abdul Hussein awakens on a deserted Cuban beach, sick and disoriented. Taken to Havana, he meets Manuela, a beautiful and sensual dancer. She is reluctant...

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Art in Las Vegas (Feature, 2007) Director: Mary McGuckian; Principal Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Geraldine Chaplin, Donna D'errico, Colm Feore, Kerry Fox, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth McGovern, Jordi Molla, Amanda Plummer, John Sessions, Sara Stockbridge, Jennifer Tilly; In a climate of rapid technological advance in the fast booming baby business, perhaps a little pause for thought is required on behalf of the patients. Couples with infertility issues,...

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Ashes (Feature, 2008) Director: Alan Coulson; After the death of his wife in a devastating fire, Jonathon Soter's life is in ruins. Barely holding down his job as a teacher and drinking to excess, he's a...

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At the Foot of a Tree (Feature, 2007) Director: R S Reid; Principal Cast: Reece Reid; In Colchester, the oldest recorded town in Britain, an 11-year-old boy seeks heartfelt and poetic revenge for the beating of his father.

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The Auction (Feature, 2007) Director: Zakir Hossain; Principal Cast: Runa Begum, Mostofa Kamal, Sharoswati Dey; Runa, a British Bangladeshi girl, is excited to take her holiday with her father to Bangladesh - the country of origin of her father; she is floating in a sweet...

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Autochrome (Feature/Documentary/Experimental film, 2007) Director: Helena Mitchell, Jake P X Astbury; Principal Cast: Helena Mitchell, Jake P. X. Astbury; Filmmaker Terra Miller documents 24 hours in the life of would be London neo-revolutionary Isabella Beretta. As we follow her life we learn she has plans to burn the city...

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Automorphosis (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Harrod Blank; Principal Cast: Hyler Bracey, Harry Sperl, Uri Geller; Automorphosis looks into the minds and hearts of a delightful collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have transformed their autos into artworks. On a humorous and touching...

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Awaydays (Feature, 2008) Director: Pat Holden; Principal Cast: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Stephen Graham; When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays...

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Bad Day (Feature, 2007) Director: Ian David Diaz; Principal Cast: Claire Goose, Donna Air, Anthony Ofoegbu, Robbie Gee, Sarah Harding, George Calil, Riana Husselmann, Tom Bacon, Keith Eyles; Bad Day is a hard-boiled crime thriller that takes place over the course of 24 hours or one day. Rebecca Ryan has been working as an undercover agent for the...

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Badinage (Feature, 2008) Director: Oliver Harrison; Principal Cast: Year of production: 2008 Running time: 103 mins Director: Oliver Harrison Producer: Oliver Harrison Screenwriter: Oliver Harrison Director of Photography: David Rafique Sound: Paul Cameron Principal cast: Steve Smith, Gavin Molloy, Dominic Cazenove, Will Strange, Jim Conway, Sarah Desmond, Emma Hill, Julian Bleach ; The feature debut of award-winning filmmaker Oliver Harrison, Badinage is a dark 'fairy-tale' - a poetic, surrealistic fantasy. Under the brutal rule of a new religous sect, art, music and...

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The Baker (Feature, 2007) Director: Gareth Lewis; Principal Cast: Damian Lewis, Kate Ashfield, Michael Gambon; Milo is a professional hitman living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for the first time in his career, he is forced to escape the city...

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The Ballad of A. J. Weberman (Feature/Documentary, 2006) Director: James Bluemel, Oliver Ralfe; Bob Dylan once said 'I don't think I'm gonna be really understood until maybe 100 years from now'. Author of the Dylan To English Dictionary , a Dylanologist and originator...

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Bananaz (Feature/Documentary, 2007) Director: Ceri Levy; Principal Cast: Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, De La Soul, Dennis Hopper, Ibrahim Ferrer; Bananaz takes you “behind the screens” on one of the great creative partnerships of our time. Following a late night conversation between Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn as they dissected...

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Bane (Feature, 2008) Director: James Eaves; Principal Cast: Sophia Dawnay, Lisa Devlin, Tina Barnes, Sylvia Robson, Jonathan Sidgwick, Daniel Jordan; Katherine awakes in an underground cell with three other women; Jane, Natasha and Elaine. With complete amnesia Katherine and the other women have little time to wonder where they are...

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Battle For Haditha (Feature, 2007) Director: Nick Broomfield; Principal Cast: Elliot Ruiz, Jasmine Hanani, Falah Flayeh; Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation....

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The Be All and End All (Feature, 2008) Director: Bruce Webb; Principal Cast: Eugene Byrne and Josh Bolt, Connor Mcintyre, with Liza Tarbuck and Neve Mcintosh; At fifteen years old you would do anything for your best mate, so when Ziggy's life-long friend Robbie is diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, he has just one favour...

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The Beautiful Outsiders (Feature, 2008) Director: Andrew Jones; Principal Cast: Tara Reid, Cameron Douglas, Brad Dourif, Doug Bradley, Stephanie James.; After six years, former drug addict Jason Starkweather is released from prison. Placed in a halfway house and in a dead end job he struggles to suppress the urge to...

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Better Things (Feature, 2007) Director: Duane Hopkins; Principal Cast: Liam McIlfatrick, Che Corr, Tara Ballard, Megan Palmer, Kurt Taylor, Rachel McIntyre, Patricia Loveland, Frank Bench, Betty Bench; Better Things is a multi-narrative intergenerational tale set in the picturesque rural Cotswolds of present day England. Both the old and young are followed on their journeys of withdrawal and...

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Beyond the Pole (Feature, 2008) Director: David L Williams; Principal Cast: Stephen Mangan, Rhys Thomas, Helen Baxendale, Rosie Cavailiero, Alexander Skarsgard, Mark Benton, Rosie Cavaliero, Patrick Baladi, Zoe Telford; As the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, Organic expedition EVER to attempt the North Pole, MARK and BRIAN have high hopes of not only doing their bit for global warming, but...

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Bhavishya: The Future (Feature, 2006) Director: Dr Nikhil Kaushik; Principal Cast: Akansha Tyagi, Vikrant Gautam, Dr Rob Lister, Saeed Jaffrey, several members of the medical profession ; Dr Deepa is in the UK for a short term fellowship with Dr Gareth Williams at an NHS Hospital. Here she is exposed to the attractions of working in the...

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The Big I Am (Feature, 2008) Director: Nic Auerback; Principal Cast: Leo Gregory, Michael Madsen, Robert Fucilla, Vincent Regan, Steven Berkoff and Paul Kaye; A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking...

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Big Things (Feature, 2008) Director: Mark Devenport; Principal Cast: Tony Claassen, Micaiah Dring, Dean Palo, Shaun Mechen, Elaine Donnelly, Rupert Procter, Jonny Phillips; Richard, bored of his mundane existence as a cycle courier, ttempts to make his film A Distance Too Far in a bid to escape to a better life. Driven by...

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Bigga Than Ben (Feature, 2007) Director: S A Halewood; Principal Cast: Andrei Chadov, Ben Barnes, Ovidiu Matesan; A guide to ripping off London by two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum'. www.biggathanben.com

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Biggest Chinese Restaurant In The World (Feature/Documentary, 2009) Director: Weijun Chen; Principal Cast: ; The 5000-seater West Lake Restaurant in the Chinese city of Changsha is the setting for this feature-doc. Old traditions and new money come together in a vibrant and colourful exploration...

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Black Forest Gateau (Feature, 2008) Director: Mike Naylor; Principal Cast: Colin Pollard, Stephen Tomlinson, Lynn Halliday, Dorothy Clarke, Trevor Cooper, Gloroa Harding, Ken Stevens.; On the mediterranean coast a group of retired Brits spend their winter months reminiscing and putting the World to right. Inspired by a news item about a bungled post office...

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The Blade (Feature/Documentary, 2008) Director: Zakir Hossain; Principal Cast: Rafiul Anwar,James Readfern,Ashfaq Ahmed, Zia Ali,Kevin Barton,Akkas Abdin; Polash, a 14-year-old British-Bangladeshi school going boy, has become mentally imbalanced to see the death of his classmate Freddy, a British-African boy, on his lap. An egoistic clash between Polash’s...

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Blood + Roses (Feature, 2007) Director: Simon Aitken; Principal Cast: Marysia Kay, Kane-John Scott, Benjamin Green, Adam Bambrough, Pamela Flanagan, Axelle Carolyn; Blood + Roses is a story about a couple who take a holiday in the hopes of rekindling their love. The wife meets a strange man who turns out to...

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The Boatmaker (Feature, 2007) Director: Ajay Patel; A man wanders alone moving from town to town in North West India. Once a brave warrior now a Boatmaker for Yama, Lord of Death. He is Dharayan and ferrying...

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Bodyguard: A New Beginning (Feature, 2007) Director: Chee Keong Cheung; Principal Cast: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Vincent Sze, Richard Ng, Stephanie Langton, Carl Ng, Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Brandon Rhea, Sing Fu On; Bodyguard: A New Beginning focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests...

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Bomber (Feature, 2009) Director: Paul Cotter; Principal Cast: Shane Taylor, Benjamin Whitrow, Eileen Nicholas; An 83 year old man returns to Germany to make amends in a village he accidentally bombed during the war.

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Bombil and Beatrice (Feature, 2007) Director: Kaizad Gustad; Principal Cast: Katie McGuinness, Prroshant Narayannan, Piyush Mishra; One hundred years ago, a beautiful young English woman named Beatrice promised a young Indian man named Vilas that she would wait for him. For a hundred years, if need...

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Botched (Feature, 2006) Director: Kit Ryan; Principal Cast: Stephen Dorff, Jaime Murray, Jamie Foreman, Sean Pertwee, Bronagh Gallagher, Edward Baker Duly, Geoff Bell, Hugh O'Conor, Alan Smyth; Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and...

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