DAPHNE
A film by Peter Mackie Burns
UK - 2017 - English - 87min
Completed
Cast: Emily Beecham (Into the Badlands, Hail Caesar!), Geraldine James (45 Years, Sherlock Holmes, Millenium), Nathaniel Martello-White (Life Just Is)
Hectic days and late nights. Londoner Daphne is caught up in the daily rush of her restaurant job, and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces. She is strong, funny, and acerbic but deep down she is not happy. Stuck in a rut, she can’t move forward. Then when she saves the life of a shop keeper, stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armor she wears to protect herself begins to crack and Daphne is forced to fight against the inevitability of a much needed change in her life.
DAPHNE’s story is intimate, funny, tender and shocking. Like life in any major city, it is an unexpected mix of the comic and tragic. You laugh when you should probably cry and then are moved when you least expect it.
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LIFE BEYOND ME
A film by Olivier Peyon
France - 2017 - French - 95min
Completed
Cast: Isabelle Carré (21 Nights with Pattie, The Refuge, Romantics Anonymous), Ramzy Bedia (The New Adventures of Aladdin, Pattaya, Lolo)
It's been four years since Sylvie's son Felipe was abducted by his father Pablo after their divorce. Having been let down by the French officials who had succeeded in tracking both them down, only to let them escape again, Sylvie has now decided to take matters into her own hands by hiring a private detective. Pablo's accidental death puts her back on Felipe's track, now living with his aunt and grandmother in the Uruguayan countryside, Pablo's home country.
Mehdi, a social worker, disillusioned with his job, is moved by Sylvie's struggle and decides to leave everything to help her. Together they set out to Uruguay in order to bring her child back to France. Once there, she realises, by being the mother, she has all rights on her son, including the right to destroy the fragile but happy balance that has been built around him.
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LEAN ON PETE
A film by Andrew Haigh
Produced by The Bureau (UK), developed with Film4
UK - 2017 - English
Post-Production
Cast: Charlie Plummer (King Jack), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo), Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft, Maggie’s got a plan), Chloe Sevigny (Love and Friendship, Boys Don’t Cry, Kids)
LEAN ON PETE is the adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel, by award winning writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 YEARS).
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year. But as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, finding some stability is hard for Charley. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland where Charley takes a summer job working for a surly, washed up horse trainer at the local race track. When tragic events leave Charley homeless, his only comforts become his friendship with a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete and a photograph of his only known relative. In increasingly desperate circumstances, Charley will head east, hoping to find his aunt who had once lived a thousand miles away in Wyoming - but the journey will be a perilous one.
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POSTCARDS FROM LONDON
A film by Steve McLean
UK - 2017 - English
Post-Production
Cast: Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats, Sundance 2017), Raphael Desprez (Allied), Ben Cura
Postcards From London tells the story of beautiful teenager Jim who, having travelled from the suburbs, finds himself in Soho where he falls in with a gang of unusual high class male escorts – The Raconteurs – who specialise in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to sought after escort, and eventually artist’s muse, Jim would be the toast of the town if it wasn’t for his annoying affliction - Stendhal Syndrome - a rare condition which causes him to hallucinate and faint. When Jim is roped into the world of detecting art forgery, could his condition bring about his downfall?
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SOLLERS POINT
A film by Matt Porterfield
US, France - 2017 - English
Post-Production
Cast: McCaul Lombardi (American Honey), Jim Belushi (Twin Peaks, Thief)
The new film by the writer-director of Putty Hill (Berlin 2010) and I Used to be Darker (Sundance, Berlin 2013).
After a period of incarceration and six months’ home detention, Keith, a small-time drug dealer, reenters a Baltimore community scarred by joblessness, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he finds the free world replete with barriers of its own. Determined to soar above them, Keith pushes back against the limitations he perceives - some endemic to his surroundings, others self-imposed - as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
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TRAMONTANE
A film by Vatche Boulghourjian
Lebanon, France - 2016 - Arabic - 105min
Completed
Cast: Barakat Jabbour, Julia Kassar (A perfect day), Michel Adabashi, Toufic Barakat
Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.
  
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