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a woman forgotten by history, a love so hidden it might never have existed: this is the story of Nelly Ternan’s secret love affair with charles Dickens.

nelly, a happily married mother and school teacher, is haunted by her past. her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent in his work, or on stage, than in life. as nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for nelly a life of “invisibility”.

STarriNG: ralph Fiennes, Felicity jones, kristin Scott Thomas, Tom hollander

ScreeNpLay: abi Morgan based on the book The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly

Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin

DirecTor: ralph Fiennes

proDUcerS: Stewart Mackinnon, gabrielle Tana, Christian Baute, Carolyn Marks Blackwood

execUTive proDUcerS: Sharon harel, Maya amsellem, eve Schoukroun, Meg Clark, Stefano Ferrari, Christine Langan, jamie Laurenson

SaLeS aGeNT: Westend Films

The InvISIBLe WoMan BBC Films and BFI present in association with Westend Films a headline Pictures and Magnolia Mae Films Production

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A Long Way Down is an irreverent, darkly comic and life-affirming film adapted from the best-selling novel by author Nick hornby.

For disgraced Tv presenter Martin Sharp, the answer’s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, “pissed his life away”. on new year’s eve he’s going to end it all …but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess, and finally American musician-turned-pizza boy JJ, crash Martin’s private party. They’ve stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.

yet it’s hard to jump when you’ve got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly friends. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

STarriNG: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Sam neill, rosamund Pike

ScreeNpLay: jack Thorne based on the novel by nick hornby

DirecTor: Pascal Chaumeil

proDUcerS: Finola Dwyer, amanda Posey

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, Dario Suter, Christoph Daniel, Marc Schmidheiny, Thorsten Schumacher, nick hornby, zygi kamasa

SaLeSaGeNT: hanWay Films

a Long Way DoWn DCM Productions and BBC Films present a Wildgaze Films / Finola Dwyer production in association with hanWay Films a Film by Pascal Chaumeil

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aLan ParTrIDge: aLPha PaPa

Steve coogan’s famous Norfolk disc jockey, alan partridge, comes to the cinema screen in this summer’s unmissable British comedy.

alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in life. national television broadcaster. Local radio broadcaster. nervous breakdown in Dundee. A self-published book ‘Bouncing Back’ which was subsequently remaindered and pulped. alan Partridge: Alpha Papa portrays the events of the greatest low-to-high-ebb spectrum in his life to date, namely how he tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a potentially violent turn of events at north norfolk Digital radio.

STarriNG: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Felicity Montagu, Tim key, Monica Dolan, nigel Lindsay, Dustin Demri-Burns

ScreeNpLay: Steve Coogan, armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, neil gibbons, rob gibbons based on the original format and characters from the programme Knowing Me,

Knowing You created by Steve Coogan, armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber and Peter Baynham

DirecTor: Declan Lowney

proDUcerS: kevin Loader, henry normal

execUTive proDUcerS: Steve Coogan, armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer, jenny Borgars, Danny Perkins

SaLeS aGeNT: StudioCanal

StudioCanal, BBC Films and BFI present a Baby Cow Films Production

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STarriNG: emma Thompson, Tom hanks Colin Farrell, Paul giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford

ScreeNpLay:

kelly Marcel, Sue Smith

DirecTor: john Lee hancock

proDUcerS: alison owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer

execUTive proDUcerS: Paul Trijbits, andrew Mason, Troy Lum, Christine Langan

SaLeS aGeNT: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Disney present in association with BBC Films A Ruby Films / Essential Media and entertainment Production in association with hopscotch Features a john Lee hancock Film

Inspired by true events, Saving Mr. Banks is the extraordinary, untold story of how Disney’s classic Mary Poppins made it to the screen—and the testy relationship that the legendary Walt Disney had with author p.L. Travers that almost derailed it.

Two-time Academy Award®–winner emma Thompson and fellow double academy award®-winner Tom Hanks topline Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic Mary Poppins made it to the screen. When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favourite book, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realise would take twenty years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. he soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

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Dom hemingway; a charismatic safe-cracker with a loose fuse, finally back on the streets of London after twelve years in prison. It’s time to collect what he’s owed.

Travelling with his devoted best friend, Dom visits his crime boss in the south of France to claim his reward. But Dom’s drink and drug-fuelled ego decides that what he’s lost can’t be replaced.

One car accident and a femme fatale later, Dom realizes that his priority must be to reconnect with his long-lost daughter.

But Dom does what Dom does best. he screws things up for everyone…

STarriNG: jude Law, richard e grant

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: richard Shepard

proDUcer: jeremy Thomas

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, Steve Christian, Peter Watson, zygi kamasa, Steve norris, Ivan Dunleavy

SaLeS aGeNT: hanWay Films

DoM heMIngWay BBC Films and Isle of Man Film present in association with hanWay Films, Pinewood Films a recorded Picture Company Production

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An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

Cast in the lead roles are viv albertine and Liam gillick. A British singer-songwriter, Albertine is the ex-guitarist of all-female punk group, The Slits; Gillick is an artist. The supporting cast includes previous hogg collaborator Tom hiddleston (Marvel Avengers Assemble), who made his acting debut in unrelated and went on to star in Archipelago.

hogg’s debut feature Unrelated won the FIPreSCI International Critics Prize at the 2007 London Film Festival in addition to the guardian Best Film award and won hogg the evening Standard’s Best newcomer award. Both Unrelated and Archipelago (2011) garnered outstanding critical acclaim upon their UK releases, with the latter film resulting in Martin Scorsese heralding Hogg as a “uniquely gifted filmmaker”.

STarriNG: viv albertine, Liam gillick

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor:

joanna hogg

proDUcer: Gayle Griffiths

execUTive proDUcerS: Lizzie Francke, Christine Langan, ed Wethered, Michael Sackler, Julia Godzinskaya

exhibition BFI and BBC Films present in association with rooks nest entertainment a Wild horses Film Company Production a joanna hogg Film

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STarriNG: Steve Coogan, judi Dench, Sophie kennedy Clark, anna Maxwell Martin, ruth McCabe, Charles edwards

ScreeNpLay: jeff Pope, Steve Coogan based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

DirecTor: Stephen Frears

proDUcerS: gabrielle Tana, Tracey Seaward, Steve Coogan

execUTive proDUcerS:

Christine Langan, henry normal, François Ivernel, Cameron McCracken, Carolyn Marks Blackwood

SaLeS aGeNT: Pathé International

philomena is the true story of one mother’s search for her lost son.

Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman”. When her baby was only a toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain.

Then she met Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story.

PhILoMenaPathé, BBC Films and BFI present with the participation of Canal+ and Ciné+ A Baby Cow / Magnolia Mae Production A Stephen Frears Film

Together they set off for america on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them.

The film is a compelling narrative of human love and loss, though ultimately celebrates life. It concerns two very different people, at different stages of their lives, who help each other and show that there is laughter even in the darkest places.

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A female landscape-gardener is awarded the esteemed assignment to construct the grand gardens at Versailles, a gilt-edged position which thrusts her to the very centre of the court of King Louis xiv. can she overcome the challenges of this new and complex world, and the ghosts of her own past tragedy, to secure a future with the man she loves?

Madame Sabine De Barra is an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the still-to-be-completed palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her; the famous architect Le Notre. However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV. But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassionate nature help her to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun king and the heart of Le notre.

alan rickman directs kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts in this sumptuous period romance.

STarriNG: kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, alan rickman

ScreeNpLay: alison Deegan, alan rickman, jeremy Brock

DirecTor: alan rickman

proDUcerS: gail egan, andrea Calderwood, Bertrand Faivre

execUTive proDUcerS: zygi kamasa, guy avshalom, Patrick Wachsberger, Christine Langan, norman Merry, richard Wolfe, ray Cooper

SaLeS aGeNT: Lionsgate International

a LITTLe ChaoS Lionsgate and BBC Films present in association with Lipsync Films A Potboiler / The Bureau Production a Film by alan rickman

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a searing story of love and war. Based on the classic First world war memoir, this is the incredible true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.

vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s close friend roland Leighton as they go to university to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the horrors of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, vera endures, rediscovers love and returns to oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to create a world in which such a war can never take place again.

ScreeNpLay: juliette Towhidi based on the memoir by vera Brittain

DirecTor: james kent

proDUcerS: David heyman, rosie alison

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer

TeSTaMenT oF youTh BBC Films presents a heyday Films Production

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a hilarious journey through an unforgettable family holiday as a couple attempt to keep their impending divorce secret from their extended family.

Doug and abi and their three children travel to the Scottish highlands for Doug’s father gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party. It’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping their secret under wraps their children are their biggest liability.

From nine year old Lottie’s notebook to keep track of the lies so she remembers which ones to tell, to four year old jess’s perverse attachment to a brick named Norman - for their parents a week has never seemed such a long time.

But it’s middle child Mickey and his granddad’s shared passion for Vikings which gives rise to the most far-reaching and unexpected consequences. When a day at the beach turns to tragedy, the children take matters into their own hands.

From the creators of hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered - What We Did On Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy for all the family.

STarriNG: Billy Connolly, rosamund Pike, David Tennant

ScreeNpLay/DirecTorS: guy jenkin, andy hamilton

proDUcerS: David M Thompson, Dan Winch

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, andrew orr, zygi kamasa, norman Merry

SaLeS aGeNT: Independent Film Sales

WhaT We DID on our hoLIDay BBC Films presents an origin Pictures Production

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A comedy about Shakespeare - or how Bill became william.

Bill tells the story of how hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his family and home to follow his dream. It’s a tale of murderous kings, spies, lost loves, and a plot to blow up Queen Elizabeth. Can one man prove the quill is mightier than the sword? This family film brings the BAFTA-winning stars of hit BBC kids show Horrible Histories to the big screen in a Pythonesque comedy about living the dream and saving the Queen.

BILLBBC Films Presents A Punk Cinema / Cowboy Films Production STarriNG:

Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence rickard, Ben Willbond

ScreeNpLay:

Laurence rickard, Ben Willbond

DirecTor: richard Bracewell

proDUcerS: Charles Steel, Tony Bracewell, richard Bracewell

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer

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a young maths genius has his logic thwarted by the one thing he can’t make sense of - love.

Teenage maths prodigy Nathan (Asa Butterfield) struggles with people but finds comfort in numbers. Mentored by unconventional and anarchic teacher Mr humphreys (rafe Spall), nathan’s talents win him a place representing gB at the Mathematics olympiad in China.

Far from home nathan is faced with unexpected challenges, not least his new and unfamiliar feelings for his Chinese counterpart, the beautiful zhang Lei.

From suburban england to bustling China and back again, this original and heart-warming coming of age film follows one extraordinary teenager as he finds his place in the world; the funny, complex relationship he has with his mentor who ends up learning more from Nathan than he could ever teach him; and ultimately nathan’s journey to embrace the irrational nature of love.

From the executive producer of Billy Elliot and award winning documentary director, Morgan Matthews, X+Y is about pursuing dreams, overcoming adversity and making the leap without knowing where you will land.

STarriNG: Asa Butterfield, rafe Spall, jo yang

ScreeNwriTer: james graham

DirecTor: Morgan Matthews

proDUcer: David M Thompson

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer, hugo heppell

SaLeS aGeNT: Bankside Films

x + y BBC Films and BFI presents an origin Pictures and Minnow Films Production

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Nick hornby (academy award® nominated for An Education) adapts this Costa Book Award-winning, New york Times best-selling novel by colm Tóibín.

Set in the early 1950s, between small town Ireland and new york, Brooklyn is the moving story of a young woman’s choice between two countries and two men. When nora is given a chance to emigrate to new york she jumps at the chance for a better life, even if it means leaving her family and home. Desperately homesick at first, Nora soon finds romance in Brooklyn, but when a family emergency forces her back to Ireland, she finds herself torn between her personal freedom and her family responsibilities.

ScreeNpLay: nick hornby based on the novel by Colm Tóibín

DirecTor: john Crowley

proDUcerS: Finola Dwyer, amanda Posey

execUTive proDUcer:

Christine Langan

BrookLyn BBC Films presents A Wildgaze Films Production

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Based on the highly acclaimed music-theatre production directed by Rufus Norris, which he now directs as a feature film, London Road documents the events of 2006 - 2008, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

The residents of London road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When Steve Wright, the occupant of no. 79, was arrested, charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.

adam Cork’s music uses the rhythmic speech patterns captured on alecky Blythe’s recorded interviews with the people of Ipswich to create this extraordinary work, which reveals the ways in which even the darkest experiences can engender a greater sense of our mutual dependence.

coMpoSer: adam Cork

ScreeNpLay: alecky Blythe

DirecTor: rufus norris

proDUcerS: Dixie Linder, Tally garner, nick Marston

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer David Sabel

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BBC Films presents A Cuba Pictures / National Theatre Production

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A group of young, rich American girls take England by storm when their Governess decides their only chance of marrying well is to seduce the best aristocratic men Britain has to offer.

Despite being wealthy and cultured, the St. george sisters are excluded from the 1880s new york society as ‘new money’ heiresses. When their new english governess Laura suggests a London season, the girls set sail for england to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting english aristocracy. Laura is the expert in her field, and soon has the girls capturing the attention and hearts of every eligible man in the land, but what all our women learn is that love comes at a price, and the biggest decision to make is whether to follow your heart or your head...

A delightful culture clash, featuring a colourful cast of flamboyant ladies, amnesiac noblemen and stiff governesses, Buccaneers is a funny, poignant exploration of social mores and fraught relationships, which feels as timeless and universal as it did when edith Wharton conceived it nearly a century ago.

ScreeNpLay: heidi Thomas based on the novel by edith Wharton

DirecTor: Simon Curtis

proDUcer: alison owen

execUTive proDUcer:

Christine Langan

BuCCaneerS BBC Films and BFI present a ruby Films Production

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An epic story of the rivalry between Steve Ovett and Sebastian coe.

Britain in the late 70s; two athletes are about to rewrite the record books for the middle distance running. Their battle will go down in history as the most intense and combative sporting clash of its era. This is the compelling story of Sebastian Coe and Steve ovett, two men from very different backgrounds, two athletes with very different styles, both with one goal – win olympic gold. a taut, adrenalized look at a clash that had a nation gripped.

ScreeNpLay: Will Davies, Simon Beaufoy, based on the book The Perfect Distance – Ovett

and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry by Pat Butcher

DirecTor:

james Watkins

proDUcerS: joanna anderson, vicky Licorish

execUTive proDUcerS: Christine Langan, kevin Loader

goLD BBC Films presents an aL Films Production

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ransome’s original is reinvented for a modern audience.

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone…The battle for ownership of a lonely island teaches them the skills of survival, the value of friendship and the importance of holding your nerve.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Lake District, this is a gripping new adaptation of an enduring masterpiece.

STarriNG: Dan Stevens

ScreeNpLay: andrea gibb based on the novel by arthur ransome

DirecTorS: The guard Brothers

proDUcer: nick Barton

execUTive proDUcerS:

Christine Langan, joe oppenheimer

SWaLLoWS anD aMazonS BBC Films presents a harbour Pictures Production

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a taut, visceral thriller set around the investigation into the murder of a young girl.

Blood is a psychological thriller about two brothers, joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who collapse under the weight of their father’s shadow. Desperate to fill their father’s shoes, Joe and Chrissie commit the ultimate crime, and the fear of being caught out by their colleague, robert, turns their lives into a downward spiral of guilt and paranoia.

STarriNG: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Stephen graham, Brian Cox, naomi Battrick, Ben Crompton, natasha Little, zoe Tapper, Sandra voe, jasper Britton, adrian edmondson

ScreeNpLay: Bill gallagher

DirecTor: nick Murphy

proDUcerS: Pippa harris, nicola Shindler, nick Laws

execUTive proDUcerS: Sam Mendes, andrew Critchley, Christine Langan, Stuart Ford, james atherton, Michael roban, norman Merry, Peter hampden

SaLeS aGeNT: IM global

BLooD BBC Films and BFI present in association with IM Global, Quickfire Films and LipSync Productions A Neal Street / Red Production

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STarriNG: elliott Tittensor, Matthew Mcnulty, emilia Clarke, Lesley Manville, Steve evets, nico Mirallegro, jordan Murphy, adam Long, oliver heald

ScreeNpLay: Chris Coghill

DirecTor: Mat Whitecross

proDUcerS: Fiona neilson, esther Douglas

execUTive proDUcerS: Phil hunt, adam kulick, joe oppenheimer, Compton ross, guy Berryman, jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin


A nostalgic snapshot of Britain in the early 1990s, this is a fictional story set against a real event – The Stone Roses legendary Spike Island gig of May 27th 1990.

School is nearly out for summer (and forever) for our lads – five Stone roses fans from Manchester. nothing will stop our boys from seeing their heroes on stage. This is the story of their journey to Widnes and the 72 hours across which their friendships are tested and their future is shaped – together or apart.

SPIke ISLanD BFI and head gear Films present in association with Metrol Technology,rising Star Media and BBC Films a Fiesta Production

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Lilting is a touching, intimate film about finding the things which bring us together.

Set in contemporary London, Lilting tells the story of a Cambodian Chinese mother mourning the untimely death of her son. her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger. We observe their difficulties in trying to connect with one another without a common language. Through a translator they piece together memories of a man they both loved dearly, and realise that whilst they may not share a language, they are connected in their grief.

STarriNG: Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei Pei, andrew Leung, naomi Christie, Morven Christie, Peter Bowles

ScreeNpLay / DirecTor: hong khaou

proDUcer: Dominic Buchanan

SaLeS aGeNT: Film London

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MICroWave

Film London presents a Lilting Production. a Microwave Film in association with BBC Films, Stink and SuMS Film & Media

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Borrowed Time tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a hapless young burglar and his eccentric victim. Desperate for cash to pay back local tyrant “Ninja” Nigel, Kevin breaks into Philip’s house, only to be held hostage by the old man at gunpoint.

Kevin is able to break free but he can’t go home for fear of Nigel, and his sister, Becky, won’t take him in either as she’s had enough of his bad behaviour. So Kevin is forced to return to the old man’s house, and the burglar and victim form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles.

STARRING: Phil Davis, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Perry Benson, Juliet Oldfield, Warren Brown

ScReeNPlAy/DIRecToR: Jules Bishop

PRoDuceR: Olivier Kaempfer

SAleS AGeNT: Film London

BORROWED TIME

MICROWAVE

Film London presents A Parkville Pictures Production A Microwave film produced in association with BBC Films

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As a man’s unspeakable past starts to catch up withhim, two very different worlds collide and he is finallyforced to confront what is right and what is wrong inorder to protect his family’s future.

a father and son live a reclusive lifestyle in the middle of nowhere.The man, a disillusioned mercenary, has his final target in sight - agang of foreign revolutionaries who lay low in a nearby derelictcompound. as the man closes in on his target the boy falls for therevolutionaries’ serving girl. having spent his whole life in isolationthe boy now discovers the warmth of friendship and the pleasuresof something more. as father and son collide, the boy is sentrunning, running in pain and full of betrayal, straight into the twistedembittered arms of his maternal grandparents, who have come tosnatch and save him. Figuring out what is right and wrong, what isgood and bad is a task for both the man and the audience.

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Martin radich

proDUcerS: Finlay Pretsell, rachel Dargavel

execUTive proDUcerS: Christopher Moll, Steve jenkins, Chris Collins, Tristan goligher

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Creative england, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films presentA SDI Productions/iFeatures Production

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an emotionally charged tale of divided family loyaltiesplayed out over a sizzling hot summer.

We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. GoobTaylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run thetransport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mumshacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ man geneWomack, goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. however goob’s world turns when exotic beet picker eva arrives. Fuelled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things.

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: guy Myhill

proDUcerS: Lee groombridge, Mike elliott


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Creative england, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films presentAn Emu Films LLP/iFeatures Production

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past the city, before the countryside begins, a father digs up skeletons whilst his daughter waits for a spaceship; a small town hinterland where teenagers search for themselves in a space between fantasy and reality.

When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction,gabriel’s search takes him dangerously close to her strange groupof so-called friends. But the further he goes inside their computergame and fantasy-obsessed world, the more he realises that hemust confront his own difficult memories if he is to get hisdaughter back.

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: alex Taylor

proDUcer: nicola Bowen


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Creative england, BFI Film Fund and BBC Films presentA Belly Productions/iFeatures Production

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a short chiller.

An Arab delivery man senses something very wrong in the affluent modern home to which he has been dispatched to install a fridge.

Coolbox takes an apparently ordinary event and turns it into a clash of culture and an examination of hidden violence. It questions where the threat to our safety and security truly lies.

STarriNG: khalid Laith, Lloyd hutchinson, justin Salinger, hattie Morahan

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: David Farr

proDUcer: nikki Parrott

execUTive proDUcerS: Beth Pattinson, ed Wethered

CooLBox ShorT FILMS

BBC Films and BFI presents a Tigerlily Films Production a Film by David Farr

When David catches his partner Catherine in yet another act of infidelity, his response has far reaching consequences for them both.

Several years after the suicide of a longtime girlfriend, David is in a new relationship. however, a chance encounter with the dead woman’s sister raises complex questions about just how complicit he was in her death.

STarriNG: Declan Conlon, aisling o’Sullivan, Catherine Walker, joanne Crawford

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Mark o’rowe

proDUcerS: Dixie Linder, alan Moloney

execUTive proDUcerS: joe oppenheimer, Beth Pattinson, ruth Coady, nick Marston

DeBrIS BBC Films presents A Parallel Film Productions / Cuba Pictures Limited Production

ShorT FILMS

A short comedic thriller. A fallen priest, on the run, finds himself at the door of an old flame, and is forced to reconnect with the past.

Father is about family, desperation and loss of innocence. Donal, a fallen priest, is on the run and out of options when he finds himself at the door of Margherita, an old flame – and face to face with her daughter, veronica. just when the two realise that their connection is deeper than either had expected, veronica’s hope and idealism is challenged as Donal is finally confronted by his past.

STarriNG: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Mairead Mckinley, alison newman, Michael Smiley

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Moira Buffini

proDUcerS: Lynsey Miller, amy jackson

execUTive proDUcerS: Faye Ward, hannah Farrell, Christine Langan, Beth Pattinson

FaTher BBC Films presents a ruby Films Production

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hIghLIghTS FroM The BaCk CaTaLogue

BILLy eLLIoT

working Title Films and BBc Films in association with the Film Council present A Tiger Aspect Production in association with WT2 of A Stephen Daldry Film

northern england, 1974. What’s a poor boy to do? Billy’s Mam is dead, his brother beats him up for nicking his Marc Bolan records, his Dad’s worried about the strike, his granny’s lost her marbles, the streets are full of riot police. and Billy wants to be a ballet dancer.

STarriNG: jamie Bell, julie Walters, gary Lewis

DirecTor: Stephen Daldry

ScreeNpLay: Lee hall

SaLeS aGeNT: Universal Pictures/Focus Features

The Boy In The STrIPeD PyjaMaSMiramax Films in Association with BBC Films present a heyday Films production

eight year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and theHolocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of europe by his country. all he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno’s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. and in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.

STarriNG: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, vera Farmiga, Sheila hancock

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Mark herman based on the best-selling book The Boy in the

Striped Pyjamas by john Boyne

SaLeS aGeNT: Miramax International

aFrICa unITeD The aWakenIng

Pathé, UK Film Council and BBC Films present in association with Warner Bros and with the participation of Canal+ and Cine cinema and in association with the rwandan Film commission

Africa United tells the extraordinary story of three rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream – to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in johannesburg.

on the way to the vital selection trial, disaster strikes when Fabrice,Dudu and Béatrice board the wrong bus and cross into the Congo.Without papers, money or a believable story, they are escorted to a children’s refugee camp. But with considerable ingenuity and sass, our heroes escape and set off in pursuit of their dream, picking up along the way a “dream team” of displaced kids, who help them negotiate a series of thrilling adventures.

Studio Canal Features present, BBC Films present in association with Creative Scotland and Lip Sync Productions An Origin Pictures production in association with Studio Canal and eagle pictures

A ghost-debunker comes to a boy’s school to disprove the existence of ghosts, only to find her own beliefs challenged. A classic ghost-story in the tradition of MR James.

STarriNG: eriya ndayambaje, Sanyu joanita kintu, roger nsengiyumva, Sherrie Silver, yves Dusenge

STarriNG: rebecca hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton

DirecTor: nick Murphy

DirecTor: Debs Gardner-Paterson

ScreeNpLay: rhidian Brook


ScreeNpLay: Stephen volk, nick Murphy

SaLeS aGeNT: StudioCanal

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Broken

BBC Films and BFI present in association with Lip Sync productions and Bill Kenwright Films a cuba pictures production

Skunk is 11, diabetic, and pretty cool.

rick is her sweet neighbour. Bob is her mean neighbour. Skunk’s world is about to change…

Shortly after witnessing a brutal beating, Skunk’s home, neighbourhood, and school all become treacherous environments, where the happy certainties of childhood give way to injustice and danger; her innocence is rapidly worn away and a harsh world fills her future. When Skunk finally seeks solace in an unspoken friendship with sweet, damaged Rick, she’s left with a choice - to stay in a life she was not promised, or to leave this broken place behind…

STarriNG: Tim roth, Cillian Murphy, rory kinnear, robert emms, zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner, Clare Burt, Denis Lawson, and introducing eloise Laurence

DirecTor: rufus norris

ScreeNpLay: Mark o’rowe based on the novel by Daniel Clay

SaLeS aGeNT: WildBunch International

a CoCk anD BuLL STory

BBC Films presents in association with EM Media and Revolution Films A Revolution Films production in association with Baby Cow productions, produced with Scion Films A Michael winterbottom Film

one of english literature’s most anarchic classics – The Life andopinions of Tristram Shandy – adapted by one of Cinema’s most daring film-makers, A Cock and Bull Story captures the spirit of the novel; a celebration of the wonderful, unfathomable chaos of life itself. This is an energetic, laugh-out-loud adaptation of a book which is unadaptable, wrapped up in an affectionate and equally hilarious account of what it’s like trying to make a film – especially when the two lead actors are constantly vying with each other for attention.

STarriNG: Steve Coogan, rob Brydon, gillian anderson

DirecTor: Michael Winterbottom

ScreeNpLay: Martin hardy based on the book The Life and Opinions of Tristram

Shandy by Laurence Sterne

SaLeS aGeNT: The Works International

BrIghT STar BrIghTon roCk

Pathé Productions, Film Finance Corporation Australia, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and Hopscotch international

London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old english poet, john keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne. When she asks him to teach her about poetry, he agrees.

The poetry soon becomes a romantic remedy that works not only to sort their differences, but fuel an impassioned love affair. “I have the feeling as if I was dissolving” keats writes. When keats falls ill a year later, the two young lovers face not marriage, but separation. In keats’ own poignant words, “forever panting and forever young”.

Studio Canal Features, Optimum Releasing, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present A Kudos Pictures Production

graham greene’s classic love story between a murderer and a witness; can Pinkie trust Rose or should he kill her before she talks to the police? Can rose trust Pinkie, or is she next in line?

STarriNG: Ben Whishaw, abbie Cornish

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: jane Campion


STarriNG: Sam riley, andrea riseborough, helen Mirren, john hurt, Nonso Anozie, Phil Davis, andy Serkis

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor:

rowan joffe

SaLeS aGeNT:

StudioCanal

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CreaTIon

Jeremy Thomas presents in association with Ocean Pictures, BBC Films and HanWay Films a Recorded Picture Company production A Jon Amiel Film

Darwin’s travels are complete – his battle is with his conscience. As he fights to put to paper his theory on natural selection, he is haunted by the memory of his dead daughter, annie – and burdened with the knowledge that his words will undermine the belief system that has been his wife’s only support.

STarriNG: Paul Bettany, jennifer Connelly

DirecTor: jon amiel

ScreeNpLay: john Collee


The DaMneD unITeD

Sony pictures releasing international, BBc Films in association with Screen Yorkshire present A Left Bank Pictures Production

Taking over from his hated rival, Don revie, Brian Clough is determined to destroy the soul of his new club.

revie’s Leeds were peerless, cynical, inspired. no one loathed themmore than Clough. The feeling was mutual. Clough is alone, hauntedand sleepless throughout his brief and painful stint as manager of Leeds United. The compulsive, flawed and tragic figure he cuts takes on Shakespearian dimensions and presents us with a football manager’s guide to heaven and hell.

STarriNG: Michael Sheen, jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall

DirecTor: Tom hooper

ScreeNpLay: Peter Morgan from the novel The Damned United by David Peace

SaLeS aGeNT: Sony Pictures releasing International

ConFeTTI CorIoLanuS

BBC Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures present A Wasted Talent Film in association with Screen west Midlands

are you planning an original wedding? have you got the imagination and style to win the title of ‘The Most original Wedding of the year’?

Confetti magazine seeks three couples who intend to wed in a unique ceremony that combines originality and style.

you will have the chance to win a dream home worth half a million pounds, and be the stars of Confetti magazine.

you will have the help of the best weddings planners in the world. Your journey will be filmed.

hermetof pictures, Kalkronkie LLp and icon entertainment International present in association with Magna Films, Atlantic Swiss Productions Ltd, Lip Sync Productions LLP, BBC Films and artemis Films, Magnolia Mae Films and Synchronistic pictures A Lonely Dragon Productions A Film by Ralph Fiennes

Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’, a revered and feared roman general is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his mother volumnia to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs. When the public refuse to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot which culminates in his expulsion from rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius to take his revenge on the city.

STarriNG: jessica hynes, Martin Freeman, alison Steadman, Stephen Mangan, jimmy Carr

STarriNG: ralph Fiennes, gerard Butler, Brian Cox, vanessa redgrave, jessica Chastain

DirecTor: ralph Fiennes

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Debbie Isitt

SaLeS aGeNT: Fox Searchlight Pictures

ScreeNpLay: john Logan based on the play Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

SaLeS aGeNT: Icon entertainment International

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eaSTern ProMISeS

Focus Features presents in association with BBC Films a Kudos Pictures / Serendipity Point Films production in association with Scion Films A film by David Cronenberg

a midwife sets out to discover the truth behind the murder of ayoung prostitute and finds herself snared in the deadly world of the Russian mafia.

STarriNG: viggo Mortensen, naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl

DirecTor: David Cronenberg

ScreeNpLay: Steve knight

SaLeS aGeNT: Focus Features International

an eDuCaTIon

BBC Films presents a Finola Dwyer / Wildgaze Films production in association with Endgame Entertainment A Lone Scherfig Film

Sixteen and gifted, jenny is destined for oxford. her parents have built their own dreams of fulfilment based on Jenny’s success. however, her eyes are opened to a world of glamorous possibility beyond the boundaries of suburbia when she meets the considerably older, distinctly urbane, David…

STarriNG: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, alfred Molina, rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, olivia Williams, emma Thompson, Sally hawkins

DirecTor: Lone Scherfig

ScreeNpLay: nick hornby


DIrTy PreTTy ThIngS

Miramax Films and BBC Films present A Celador Films production

When illegal immigrant okwe discovers the gruesome evidence of trade in human organs, he uses his professional skills and social invisibility to expose and put an end to the trafficking in this award-winning urban thriller.

STarriNG: audrey Tautou, Chiwetel ejiofor, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong


ScreeNpLay: Steve knight


The DuCheSS

Pathé Productions and BBC Films present in association with Pathé Renn Production and BIM Distribuzione, A Qwerty Films / Magnolia Mae production

Sensitive, extravagant and wildly charismatic, georgiana – Duchess of Devonshire – was the ‘It girl’ of the late 1700s. Married young to a cool and distant Duke, and the intimate of ministers and princes – georgiana fashionista and political mover was credited with swinging the election in the Whigs’ favour in 1785.

at the core of her story is a desperate search for warmth and love,which leads her into a passionate affair with future Prime MinisterCharles grey, and an intense and complex friendship with a woman who will ultimately betray her.

STarriNG: keira knightley, ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte rampling

DirecTor: Saul Dibb

ScreeNpLay: jeffrey hatcher, Saul Dibb


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gInger anD roSa

BFI and BBC Films present An Adventure Pictures Production In association with The Match Factory, Media House Capital, Ingenious, and Miso Films ApS and the Danish Film Institute a Sally potter Film

London, 1961. Two teenage girls – ginger and rosa – are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics andhairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers’ frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution,and the menace of nuclear holocaust grows, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is threatened - by the clash of desire and thedetermination to survive.

STarriNG: elle Fanning, alessandro nivola, Christina hendricks, Timothy Spall, oliver Platt, jodhi May, annette Bening, alice englert

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Sally Potter

SaLeS aGeNT:

The Match Factory

gooD vIBraTIonS

BBC Films presents with the participation of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/iFB and Northern ireland Screen in association with Immaculate Conception Films A Canderblinks Film & Music, revolution Films and Treasure entertainment production

Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his city.as all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Goodvibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city’s nascent underground punk scene. galvanising theyoung musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an alternative ulster, to bring his city back to life.

STarriNG: richard Dormer, jodie Whittaker, Michael Colgan, karl johnson, Liam Cunningham, adrian Dunbar, Dylan Moran

DirecTorS: Lisa Barros D’Sa, glenn Leyburn

ScreeNpLay: Colin Carberry, glenn Patterson


FISh Tank FLyIng BLInD

BBc Films and the UK Film council in association with Limelight present A Kees Kasander production An Andrea Arnold Film

Fish Tank is the BaFTa award winning story of Mia, a volatile15-year-old, who is always in trouble and who has become excluded from school and ostracized by her friends. One hot summer’s day, her mother brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives.

Touching on the themes of her academy award® winning short Wasp, Fish Tank is an original and unsettling tale for our age.

South West Screen and BBC Films presentation in association with Matador Pictures, Cinema Six, Regent Capital and City of Bristol

Frankie is part of the war-machine, a successful aerospace engineer designing drones for the military. When she meets Kahil, a French-algerian student, she embarks on a passionate affair and, for the first time in her life, utterly, thrillingly loses control. One morning at work, she’s detained by the security services and told that kahil is a“person of interest”. She finds that she has crossed a line into a nightmare world of suspicion and accusation. realising how little she knows of this man, Frankie determines to find out the truth, only to discover to her cost that betrayal always comes from those closest to us.

STarriNG: katie jarvis, kierston Wareing, Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Griffiths, harry Treadaway

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: andrea arnold

STarriNG: helen McCrory, najib oudghiri, kenneth Cranham

DirecTor: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz

SaLeS aGeNT: Content Film, a division of Content Media Corporation Plc

ScreeNpLay: naomi Wallace, Bruce McLeod, Caroline harrington

SaLeS aGeNT: Content Film, a division of Content Media Corporation Plc

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In The LooP

BBC Films and UK Film Council present in association with aramid entertainment an armando iannucci Film

War’s a bad thing. right?

The uS President and uk Prime Minister suddenly fancy another war in the Middle east. It’ll be quick this time. Promise. The uS’s general Miller doesn’t think so and British Minister, Simon Foster, agrees with him. however, after Simon accidentally backs military action on prime-time TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington…

STarriNG: James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy,Tom hollander, Peter Capaldi,Chris addison, gina Mckee

DirecTor: armando Iannucci

ScreeNpLay: armando Iannucci, jesse armstrong, Tony roche, Simon Blackwell

SaLeS aGeNT: eone Films International

iLL ManorS

Film London presents an Animage production A Microwave Film in association with BBC Films, Plan B Enterprises and Gunslinger a Ben Drew Film

a unique crime thriller set on the unforgiving streets of London, iLL Manors follows six disparate lives, all struggling to survive the circles of violence that engulfs them. narratively linked through original music from Plan B, the film is a visually stunning and emotionally impactful experience, laced with street-wise humour.

STarriNG: Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Lee allen, jo hartley, Dannielle Brent, anouska Mond, nick Sagar, ryan De La Cruz, Eloise Smyth

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Ben Drew


greaT exPeCTaTIonS

BFI, BBC Films and Unison Films present in association with HanWay Films and Lip Sync Productions An Elizabeth Karlsen / Stephen Woolley Number 9 Films Production in association with Compton Investments A Film by Mike Newell

young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new found position to pursue the beautiful Estella; a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. yet the shocking truth behind his great fortunewill have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear.

STarriNG: ralph Fiennes, helena Bonham Carter, robbie Coltrane, jeremy Irvine, ewen Bremner, jason Flemyng, SallyHawkins, Tamzin Outhwaite, David Walliams, holliday grainger

DirecTor: Mike newell

ScreeNpLay: David nicholls


The hISTory BoyS

BBc Two Films and Fox Searchlight pictures and DNa Films present in association with the UK Film Council A National Theatre production

The History Boys tells the story of a group of bright, funny historystudents in pursuit of an undergraduate place at oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick english teacher, a young and shrewd professor hired to up their test scores, a grossly outnumbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results – the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process.

Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.

STarriNG: Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, Stephen Campbell Moore

DirecTor: nicholas hytner

ScreeNpLay: alan Bennett

SaLeS aGeNT: Twentieth Century Fox

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LaST reSorT

a BBc Films/BBc Documentaries production

Tanya, young and naïve, leaves Moscow with her street-wise10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancé. After he fails toturn up at the airport, Tanya and her son find themselves virtuallyimprisoned in a dead-end seaside resort.

STarriNG: Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine,artyom Strelnikov, Lindsey honey

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Pawel Pawlikowski

co-wriTer: rowan joffe


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LonDon 2012 FeSTIvaL ShorT FILMSBBC Films and Film4 presents in association with the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad using from the National Lottery (and creative Scotland for SwiMMer)

In a unique partnership between BBC Films and FilmFour, four short films were produced for the London 2012 Festival. Each company commissioned and co-funded two projects.

BaFTa winning Swimmer is a poetic journey following a lone swimmer through the waterways and coastline of the British Isles. From director Lynne ramsay, starring Tom Litten. a Warp Films Production in association with rockinghorse Films Ltd.

What If is a celebration of urban youth culture. a young boy learns fundamental life lessons on nobility, patience and generosity from a wiser guardian. Starring noel Clarke, george Sargeant. a vertigo Films Production.

jane eyre

Focus Features and BBC Films present A Ruby Films Production

adapted from Charlotte Brontë’s celebrated gothic 19th Centurynovel, Jane Eyre is the thrilling, beautifully romantic story of aplain girl’s bravery in the face of hypocrisy and cruelty.

STarriNG: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender,judi Dench, jamie Bell, Sally hawkins

DirecTor: Cary Fukunaga

ScreeNpLay: Moira Buffini adapted from the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

SaLeS aGeNT: Focus Features International

IrIS

BBC Films, Intermedia Films and Miramax Films present A Mirage Enterprises/Robert Fox/Scott Rudin Production

The award-winning story of the enduring love between the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her husband, john Bayley. From the romance of their early days at oxford in the 1950s, to her tragic death in 1999.

STarriNG: judi Dench, jim Broadbent,kate Winslet, hugh Bonneville

DirecTor: richard eyre

ScreeNpLay: richard eyre and Charles Wood, based on john Bayley’s books Iris: A Memoir

and Elegy for Iris


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MISS PoTTer

phoenix pictures and Momentum pictures present in association with The isle of Man and The UK Film council a David Kirschner production in association with BBC Films A Chris Noonan Film

as the most successful classic children’s author of all time, this is thestory of a single woman living in her own imaginary world, and hersecret first love with the publisher who brought her success. BeatrixPotter told stories and drew pictures that have inspired generations of children over the years, but the untold story of her life will captivate and delight a whole new audience.

STarriNG: renée zellweger, ewan Mcgregor,emily Watson

DirecTor: Chris noonan

ScreeNpLay: richard Maltby jr

SaLeS aGeNT: Summit entertainment

Morvern CaLLar

Alliance Atlantis and BBC Films present a Company Pictures production in association with the UK Film council, Scottish Screen and the Glasgow Film Fund. Developed by BBC Scotland

When supermarket worker Morvern Callar finds her boyfrienddead on the kitchen floor, she decides to take her life into her ownhands and embarks on a life-altering journey to the south of Spainin this haunting and elegiac film.

STarriNG: Samantha Morton, kathleen McDermott

DirecTor: Lynne ramsay

ScreeNpLay: Lynne ramsay, Liana Dognini based on the novel by alan Warner

SaLeS aGeNT: alliance Films Inc

MaDe In DagenhaM

BBC Films and UK Film Council present in association with Hanway Films BMS Finance and Lip Sync Productions A Stephen Woolley Elizabeth Karlsen Number 9 Films production in association audley Films

1968: rita lives in Dagenham and, like many local women, she works at the Ford plant stitching together seat covers. It’s intricate work, carried out in sweltering conditions. So why, she wonders, are the workers paid the same as unskilled labourers? Is it because the work is unskilled? or is it in fact because they are women?

Made in Dagenham shows how, with a little help from political firebrand Barbara Castle, the Dagenham women managed to overturn an age old hypocrisy.

STarriNG: Sally hawkins, Bob hoskins, Miranda richardson, geraldine james,rosamund Pike, andrea riseborough,Daniel Mays

DirecTor: nigel Cole

ScreeNpLay: William Ivory


Love IS The DevIL

BBc Films and The British Film institute in association with the Arts Council of England, Premiere Heure and Uplink present a BFi production in association with partners in crime and with the assistance of State Films

a portrait of the artist Francis Bacon and the story of his tragic love affair with a small-time criminal, George Dyer.

STarriNG: Derek jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: john Maybury


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My SuMMer oF Love

BBC Films and the Film Consortium with Baker Street present in association with UK Film Council a Take Partnerships Production of an Apocalypso Picture A Film by Pawel Pawlikowski

a long, hot summer creeps up on the emotions of two teenage girls, who live in the same yorkshire village, but are a world apart. This new friendship becomes all consuming and they plan to run away, but as the summer draws to a close, it becomes clear that their passion will take a different and darker path…

STarriNG: natalie Press, emily Blunt, Paddy Considine

DirecTor: Pawel Pawlikowski

ScreeNpLay: Pawel Pawlikowski in collaboration with Michael Wynne based on the novel by helen Cross


My Week WITh MarILyn

The Weinstein Company and BBC Films present in association with Lip Sync Productions A Trademark Films Production

Determined to make his way in the film business, Colin Clark worked as an assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl – the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. nearly 40 years on his diary account was published but one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of working.

STarriNG: Michelle Williams, kenneth Branagh,eddie redmayne, Dominic Cooper,zoë Wanamaker, julia ormond,with emma Watson and judi Dench

DirecTor: Simon Curtis

ScreeNpLay: adrian hodges adapted from the book My Week

with Marilyn by Colin Clark

SaLeS aGeNT: The Weinstein Company

MrS henDerSon PreSenTS

Pathé Pictures and BBC Films present in association with Future Films Limited and Micro-Fusion 2004-1 LLP and in association with UK Film Council A Heyman Hoskins Production A Stephen Frears Film

If there was one place which defined the spirit of London during the Blitz, it was the Windmill Theatre; its doors always open to receive the boys’ home from leave, its famous nude tableaux guaranteeing full houses round the clock – a permanent ‘v’ sign to the Luftwaffe. The camaraderie of the theatre was also at its height during the war – a little world of big laughs, close friendships and lost loves. and like the war, it could not last forever.

STarriNG: judi Dench, Bob hoskins, Christopher guest, Will young, kelly reilly, Thelma Barlow


ScreeNpLay: Martin Sherman


The MoTher

BBC Films presents in association with Renaissance Films A Free range Films production

When a woman is widowed and comes to stay with her grown upchildren, a startling series of events are set in motion in this delicateand profound study of ageing and desire, a shocking yet tenderdefinition of family life in the 21st Century.

STarriNG: anne reid, Daniel Craig

DirecTor: roger Michell

ScreeNpLay: hanif kureishi

SaLeS aGeNT: BBC Films

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noW IS gooD

Warner Bros. Pictures, BBC Films and BFI present in association with TF1 Droits Audiovisuels and Rising Star Film A Blueprint pictures production

Tessa is seventeen and passionate about life. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she determines to use every moment, compiling a catalogue of what a normal teenager would experience, including losing her virginity and taking drugs. With the help of her friend zoey, she sets the list in motion. While her family deals with fear and grief, each in their own way, Tessa explores a whole new world. Falling in love with adam, her new neighbour, wasn’t on the list, but it proves to be the most exhilarating experience of them all.

STarriNG: Dakota Fanning, jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, olivia Williams

ScreeNpLay: ol Parker, based on the novel Before I Die by jenny Downham

SaLeS aGeNT: TF1 International

The oTher BoLeyn gIrL

Universal Pictures International and Columbia Pictures present in association with BBc Films and relativity Media a ruby Films / Scott rudin production

Against the epic backdrop of perhaps the defining period in english history, this is an intimate study of a relationship between a man and two sisters: the youngest replaces her sister in the man’s affections, starting a chain of events that lead ultimately to her death. The man is henry vIII, king of england, and the two sisters Mary and Anne Boleyn. Mary is the first to catch the King’s eye, but is cast aside in favour of the dazzling Anne, whose passionate nature and relentless pursuit of the crown propel her towards her doom.

STarriNG: natalie Portman, Scarlett johansson, eric Bana, David Morrissey, kristin Scott Thomas

DirecTor: justin Chadwick

ScreeNpLay: Peter Morgan, from the novel by Philippa gregory

SaLeS aGeNT: Focus Features

noTeS on a SCanDaL

Fox Searchlight Pictures and DNA Films present in association with the UK Film council and BBc Films a Scott rudin/robert Fox production

When Sheba hart joins St. george’s as the new art teacher, Barbara Covett senses a kindred spirit. however, Barbara is not the only one drawn to her… Sheba begins an illicit affair with a pupil and Barbara becomes the keeper of her secret.

STarriNG: judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill nighy

DirecTor: richard eyre

ScreeNpLay: Patrick Marber

SaLeS aGeNT: Fox Searchlight Pictures

naTIvITy!

BBc Films and Screen west Midlands in association with Limelight present A Mirrorball Films Production

This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddens has to put on the school’s nativity. Competing against the posh neighbouring school to get the best reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when Paul boasts that his ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producer, is coming to see his show. The only trouble is – they haven’t spoken in years.

When teaching assistant Mr Poppy fuels his ‘white lie’, Maddens suddenly finds himself a local celebrity and at the centre of quarelling parents and over-excited children in a bid for fame and fortune. now Maddens’ only hope is to lure jennifer and hollywood to town so that everybody’s Christmas wishes come true.

STarriNG: Martin Freeman, ashley jensen, jason Watkins, Marc Wootton

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Debbie Isitt

SaLeS aGeNT: Protagonist Pictures

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Pathé Pictures and BBC Films present in association with the Arts Council of England, Lazennec and Le Studio Canal+ a holy cows Films production

It’s glasgow in 1973 and young james’ world is changing – he’sgrowing up, but he doesn’t want to be like his Dad. he hates football for a start, and he can’t quite fit in with the local children. When a local teenage gang accept him, he meets Margaret anne, and a tender relationship grows between them.

STarriNG: Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William eadie

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: Lynne ramsay

SaLeS aGeNT: MGM/United Artists

revoLuTIonary roaD

DreamWorks Pictures presents in association with BBC Films an evermere entertainment, BBc Films, Neal Street production

Based on the celebrated novel by richard yates, Revolutionary Road is a heart-rending story of thwarted passion and the search for fulfilment. A young couple find themselves torn between their own desires and the pressure to conform, with explosive consequences.

STarriNG: Leonardo DiCaprio, kate Winslet

ScreeNpLay/DirecTor: justin haythe, based on the novel by richard yates

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QuarTeT

BBC Films and DCM Productions present a Headline Pictures and Finola Dwyer Productions production in association with Momentum pictures / alliance Films, Decca and hanway Films

Lifelong friends Wilf and reggie, together with former colleague Cissy, are residents of Beecham house, a home for retired opera singers. every year the residents give a concert to raise funds for their home. But when Jean Horton, Reggie’s ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home, the plans for this year’s concert start to unravel.

STarriNG: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Sheridan Smith

DirecTor: Dustin hoffman

ScreeNpLay: ronald harwood, based on his play


ProjeCT nIM

A Red Box Films production in association with Passion Pictures for BBc Films and the UK Film council

This is the story of Nim; the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.

Following nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, thisdocumentary feature examines the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way; the film is an unflinching andunsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human.

DirecTor: james Marsh


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BBc Films and UK Film council present in association with Footprint Investments LLP, Piccadilly Pictures and LipSync Productions an Independent production in association with artina Films and rockinghorse Films a Film by Lynne ramsay

When kevin, two days before his sixteenth birthday, goes on a horrific rampage, his mother Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. She confronts the ultimate taboo – did she ever love her son? and how much of what kevin did was her fault?

STarriNG: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller

DirecTor: Lynne ramsay

ScreeNpLay: Lynne ramsay, rory Stewart kinnear based on the novel by Lionel Shriver

SaLeS aGeNT: Independent Film Sales

WeST IS WeST

BBC Films presents A Lesley Udwin/Assassin Films Production

The sequel to the internationally acclaimed film East Is East

Manchester, north of england, 1976. The now diminished khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest khan, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault from both his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition and from the bullies in the schoolyard. So in a last ditch attempt to ‘sort him out’, his father sends him to Mrs khan no 1 and the family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he abandoned 30 years earlier. It is not long before Mrs khan 2 swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.

STarriNG: om Puri, Linda Bassett, aqib khan, Emil Marwa, Jimi Mistry, Vijay Raaz, Lesley nicol, Ila arun

DirecTor: andy de emmony

ScreeNpLay: ayub khan Din


TaMara DreWe

WestEnd Films, BBC Films and the UK Film Council present a Ruby Films production in association with Nottinghill Films. A Stephen Frears Film

gemma arterton plays Tamara, the ultimate modern girl returning to her country home – and her past. once a shy, ugly teenager, shereinvents herself as a smouldering femme fatale, kicking up a storm of envy, lust and gossip wherever she goes.

Adapted by Moira Buffini from Posy Simmond’s graphic novel andSaturday Guardian strip, and a modern-day take on the Hardy classic, Far From the Madding Crowd – a story of love and lust in a rural idyll.

STarriNG: gemma arterton, Dominic Cooper, roger allam, Bill Camp, Tamsin greig


ScreeNpLay: Moira Buffini

SaLeS aGeNT: Westend Films

STreeTDanCe

vertigo Films and UK Film council, BBc Films and Little Gaddesden Productions present in association with Paradise FX Corp A Vertigo Films Production

Carly’s in love with charismatic boyfriend jay and their dance crew has just made it through to the finals of the UK Street DanceChampionships. however, everything changes when jay walks out,breaking her heart and leaving the street dancers’ dreams in jeopardy. Salvation comes in the unlikely shape of a ballet schoolmistress, who impressed by the skill of Carly and her troupe, strikes a deal: they can practise in the Ballet academy’s dance studio in return for collaborating with her ballet dancers. a clash of cultures ensues. Will the two groups of dancers find a way to work together before the Street Dance Championship finals? StreetDance is the UK’s first ever British film to be shot entirely in 3D; a groundbreaking movie which is an exhilarating joyride through the uk’s street dance scene.

STarriNG: nichola Burley, richard Winsor, ukweli roach, george Sampson, Charlotte rampling, Diversity Live, Flawless entertainment

DirecTorS: Max & Dania

ScreeNpLay: jane english


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