Against Nature
Suspense Drama
28 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding German language Europe, Iceland, Portugal, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America, Brazil)
The story a dangerously decadent aristocrat and his unlikely friendship with a tramp. Inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans' fin de siecle novel, A Rebours, it is an intelligent, thought-provoking film about the perils of excess, and the thin line that separates kindness from cruelty.
An Angel for May
Time Travel Drama
95 Minutes
Rights: World IP
An Angel for May, tells the tale of schoolboy Tom living on a farm who is transported from the present to the time of the Second World War. In the past the farm is run by salt of the earth Sam Wheeler who is looking after orphaned evacuee May. Tom develops an immediate and strong friendship with May. In Tom's present day world are his next door neighbour and an old beggar woman Rosie. Stories in both time frames are intricately told and interwoven.
Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Batman Begins)
Geraldine James (Heist, Calendar Girls)
Blurred
Teen Comedy
95 Minutes
Rights: World IP
School’s out, and its only 200 miles to the party of a lifetime! Every year more than 70,000 Australian school leavers head for the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast to celebrate their release from the secondary school system with a wild mixture of sun, surf and sex. This quintessential Australian tradition is known affectionately as "Schoolies Week". Blurred is not about being there - it follows the adventures of a bunch of kids trying to get there.
Chaos & Cadavers
Comedy
80 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding German language Europe, Iceland, Portugal, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North America, Brazil)
A young newly-wed couple arrive for their honeymoon at a majestic remote country hotel to find it taken over by the high-spirited Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their romance is quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies in bizarre circumstances.
Nick Moran (Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Rancid Aluminium)
Keeley Hawes (A Cock and Bull Story, Spooks, Lucky Jim)
Rick Mayall (Blackadder, Drop Dead Fred, Valiant)
Cool
Drama (Dutch language)
90 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding Benelux, Spain, Brazil, North America)
Theo van Gogh's Cool is an edgy, ironic commentary on youth violence in Europe today. Five friends fill their idle hours with petty crime. One day, a professional gang leader and his charming girlfriend convince them to do a major bank heist, but the youngsters are caught and sentenced to serve 18 months at Glen Mills, an experimental reform school.
Dead Bodies
Thriller
85 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding Ireland, Thailand, German Language Europe, North America, Brazil, Isreal, Benelux, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Africa, South Africa)
Tommy, an easy-going young man, finds his situation abruptly changed by the return of his high maintenance, anti-everything, ex-girlfriend Jean. When, during one of their frequent ‘domestics’, she slips and is fatally injured he decides to dump the body in a local wood - only to discover that he’s not the first.
Kelly Reilly (Mrs Henderson Presents, Pride & Prejudice,The Libertine)
Andrew Scott (Saving Private Ryan)
Deadlines
Action Thriller
103 Minutes
Rights: World IP
Drawn from real life experiences, Deadlines is a gritty, fast paced tale of the danger, emotional entanglements and moral dilemmas encountered by war correspondents.
Stephen Moyer (Ultraviolet, Uprising, The Secret)
Anne Parillaud (Nikita, Map of the Human Heart)
The Failures
89 Minutes
It all starts when Lilly embalms the school mascot, crashes her father's car into her mother's tombstone and ends up trying to help William kill himself. From there things started to get a little complicated. It's a sad little romantic comedy about a group of hopeless mess-ups.
Ashley Johnson (What Women Want, Fast Food Nation)
Chad Lindberg (The Fast and The Furious, The Rookie)
Michael Ironside (The Perfect Storm, Starship Troopers, Total Recall)
Henry Czerny (The Pink Panther, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Ice Storm)
Farewell Routemaster
Fun collection of shorts
37 minutes
Rights: World, All Media
In December 2005, after nearly 50 years of roaming the London streets, the double-decker open-backed red bus known as the Routemaster stopped it’s service. To commemorate the passing of this London legend, filmmakers were challenged to go out onto the streets and make a film about the iconic British bus that has now ended its commuter service forever.
Freedom Park
Gambling comedy
98 minutes
Rights: World IP
David and Stephen are in debt over $500,000 to Las Vegas crime boss Tommy the Goat, and they need a plan to raise the money before the Goat's thugs show up looking for them in Freedom Park, Massachusetts. Can David keep his little brother Johnny from shaving points? Can Stephen win back Abby's heart? What will happen to the citizens of Freedom Park if they are unable to pay their gambling debts? Find out in this light hearted comedy where young children cork their bats to get ahead and full grown men can't get to the ice-cream truck fast enough to place their bets.
Tim Fields (Days of Our Lives)
Godforsaken
Gritty Thriller (Dutch language)
85 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding Benelux, North America, German Language Europe, Spain, At 17, Stan is depressed. His parents ignore him, school is a drag, and his home town is dead. When he meets Maikel, a 20-year-old small time crook, he is drawn into an exciting new underground world. When Stan covers for Maikel, the two become sworn friends. They start with small robberies, but after killing one of their burglar victims, matters spiral out of control. A local Mafia boss hires the them as contract killers. Meanwhile, Maikel’s girlfriend Anna is falling for Stan. As killing becomes routine for Maikel he becomes more violent at home, and Stan is forced to help Anna escape.
Going To Hell: The Making of Soul Searcher
‘Making of’ documentary
91 Minutes
Rights: World, IP
Behind-the-scenes documentary telling, with brutal honesty, the story of 'Soul Searcher'. Hailed by The Guardian as “The Spielberg of Hereford”, Neil Oseman went through four years of torment to bring this movie to screens, acting as writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and visual effects artist. Fortunately for audiences he documented the whole process from start to finish, providing a fascinating insight into filmmaking and an education in how (or how not!) to make a movie.
Hacks
Raucous US comedy
83 Minutes
Rights: UK DVD
A hysterical mockumentary examining the Diamond and Hutz talent agency, who aid and abet the sad careers of a group of deluded stand-up comics. Hungry for success and blind to their lack of talent, the spot-on performances leave you wondering just how far from the truth this may actually be.
Michael Rispoli (The Weather Man, Rounders, Death to Smoochy)
Joyful Partaking
Ensemble surburban drama
119 Minutes
Rights: World, All Media
A darkly comic, Altmanesque look at a day in the life of an American neighbourhood. Joyful Partaking reveals how seemingly small acts of kindness or carelessness can change a life forever.
John Procaccino (Born to be Wild, Assassins)
May 6th
Political Thriller (Dutch language)
118 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding Benelux, Brazil, North America)
Tabloid photographer, Jim de Booy, takes photos of hot young soap star, Birgit Maas. Suddenly a Volkswagen roars to life, colliding with Jim's motorbike. Jim takes photos of the disappearing car, when six gun shots ring out. A high profile politician has been murdered. When the driver of the Volkswagon is found dead in the river, Jim realises his photos are dynamite. Jim tracks down the only living witness, political activist Ayse, and both become targets for the secret services implicated in the assassination. A dangerous cat and mouse game reveals a political conspiracy that leads all the way to the top.
Moll
Documentary
A film portrait of Molly Parkin; painter, author of ten published novels (humorous erotica), journalist, fashion editor, TV celebrity and reformed alcoholic. Now seventy-four years old, she is outrageously honest about the sexual abuse she received as a child from her father. She tells of the influences of Chapel and the cinema; her adolescence and introduction to adult sex; her face-lift sponsored by the Sunday Telegraph; her relationships with two husbands and lovers, her careers, her wealth and her descent into bohemian depravity and alcoholism in New York; her return to sobriety.
My Kingdom
Crime Drama
117 Minutes
Rights: World IP
Set in Liverpool's gangland this is the story of a man who rules supreme and is convinced he is untouchable - until his wife is shot dead. Believing the bullet was meant for him he is determined to find the killer even though he has to involve his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters.
Richard Harris (Harry Potter, Patriot Games, Gladiator, Unforgiven)
Lynn Redgrave (Kinsey, Shine, Gods and Monsters, Desperate Housewives)
One Love
Caribbean Romance
100 Minutes
Rights: World IP
Kassa, a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.
One Man’s Trash
Comedic Mockumentary
23 minutes
Rights: World, All Media
A diverse group of yard sale fanatics are interviewed. The common ground that brings this motley crew together is a yard sale, where one man's trash is another man's treasure... and anything can happen.
Uncompromising British urban drama
104 minutes
Rights: World, All Media
Award-winning and critically acclaimed rough and ready no-budget film, The Plague follows four teenagers caught in the dysfunctional cycle of their disenfranchised lives, set to the backdrop of a killer hip hop soundtrack featuring freestyle legends Skinnyman and DJFlip.
The Ripper 2: Letter from Within
Thriller Horror
85 Minutes
Rights: World IP
The director of an asylum offers to the serial killer Molly Keller a chance to be submitted to a pilot unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute. Molly accepts a treatment using a virtual world. However, something does not work well in the experiment, and when the patients die, the same happens in the real world. The explanation is a huge twist point in the very end of the story.
Richard Bremmer (Harry Potter, Shaghai Knights, The 13th Warrior)
Erin Karpluk (Supernatural, Taken, Battlestar Galactica)
Nicholas Irons (Madness of King George, Vlad)
Safety In Numbers
Thriller
86 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding North America, Thailand, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil Africa, South Africa)
Six contestants from a Survivor Island reality TV show are reunited six months later back on the same island for a reunion show special, taking the slow route to the island on a beautiful yacht. Once on the island, the group are surprised to find no one there. The next day the yacht has gone missing. Stranded and furious, the contestants split up to search for the yacht. Someone is out there in the jungle, watching, stalking… and killing them. A reality survival game soon becomes a deadly game of real survival.
Sci-fi action adventure
98 Minutes
Rights: World, All Media
High-concept, effects-laden drama in which a lowly, young street-sweeper is chosen as the successor to the dying Grim Reaper. This fantastical story was a remarkable four years in the making and made for no more than the price of an average family car.
Richard Brake (Hannibal Rising, The Black Dahlia, Batman Begins)
Splinter
Tense sci-fi thriller
92 Minutes
Rights: World IP
An experimental microchip that accesses the deepest thoughts of it's carrier through a super computer, has been implanted into five unknowing guinea-pigs. Soon it will impact on their lives taking on dramatic and unforeseen results.
Nikolas Grace (An Ideal Husband, Daniel Deronda, Brideshead Revisited)
Paul Barber (The Full Monty, The 51st State, Only Fools and Horses)
Three Blind Mice
Crime thriller
93 Minutes
Rights: World IP
Thomas is a young computer specialist who spends most of his time on the net. One day, while Thomas is connected to Cathy’s webcam, she is murdered b. But when he calls the police to try to "do something" he realizes that he doesn't even now her "real" name or adress...
Edward Furlong (Terminator 2, American History X)
Emilia Fox (The Pianist, Pride and Predjudice)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, American Gangster, Love Actually, Amistad)
The Ultimate Truth
Quirky british satire
81 Minutes
Rights: World, All Media
When Jeda, a feckless young Australian finds his idle life disrupted by a chance confrontation with the arrogant Monty, he finds he must prove his worth to his girlfriend, to Monty, to himself, and to the world. And so with the help of his friends, he starts his own radical political party.
Vinci
Comedy Thriller (Polish language)
108 Minutes
Rights: World IP (excluding Poland, Japan, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, German Language Europe, China, Taiwan, Brazil)
On his release from jail notorious thief Tsuma has the chance of a lifetime to steal the most famous painting in the country - Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with Ermine". He enlists Julian, his former partner in crime, who is now a cop. While Tsuma turns to a master forger to create the perfect copy, Julian secretly hires the formidable talents of Hagen's beautiful and temperamental granddaughter to make another. Crook, cop, forger and master must pitch all their resources together to pull off the heist of the century.
Provocative adult documentary
54 Minutes
Rights: World, IP
Following the adventures of filmmaker Stuart Kershaw in Thailand, The Virgin Trade unravels the complexities of Western sex tourism and its relationship with Asia's home grown trade. It is a shocking journey, as brutal in its honesty as it is unexpected in its conclusions.
Glamourous Caribbean drama (100 half-hour episdoes)
Rights: World excluding the Caribbean, All Media
Westwood Park weaves the story of the Du Soleil and Gunn-Munroe families, whose affluent lifestyles and picture-perfect smiles become less than idyllic on closer inspection. The manipulative and power-hungry Herbert dominates the Gunn-Munroe clan, while the conscious and upstanding Jonathan heads the Du Soleil family. Set in lush and luxurious locations rarely seen in Caribbean dramas, Westwood Park is driven by the universal topics of love, hate, power, lust, greed, corruption, romance, heartbreak and striving for social justice.
West End Story
Romantic drama
Rights: World IP
Johnny, a dreamer withdrawn from the world, is dragged back into it on meeting Jane, a woman who writes fairy stories. Johnny is smitten, but Jane already has a boyfriend, he's offered a dream job abroad and his old best mate drags him into his complicated love dilemmas. If only love could be simple.
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Deadpan Valentine
Offbeat anti-rom-com
80 Minutes
Rights: UK and Europe, All Media and World, IP
A black comedy that follows the adventures of two very different flat mates during one grim Valentine's Day. As the egotistical Scott foresees a day of success and romance, Jamie only looks for a way out.
Diary of a Bad Lad
Outrageous crime drama
92 Minutes
Rights: World, All Media
Frustrated filmmaker Barry licks attempts to expose a local businessman's suspected illegal dealings, but soon finds himself out of his depth and exploited with both hilarious and tragic results. Diary of a Bad Lad is harrowing, witty, thought-provoking and chilling.
Screen Door Jesus
American religious satire
119 Minutes
Rights: World excluding North America, All Media
When a vision of Jesus is sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper’s front porch the misadventures begin. Soon the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon, and as more people flock to the door, the pressure on this sleepy town starts to build.
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