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City Slacker and Banaz: A Love Story
Angel
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Gee Vaucher; Writer: Gee Vaucher)
A girl being watched by the audience watches back.
Banaz: A Love Story
(Country: UK, Norway; Year: 2012; Director: Deeyah; Stars: Caroline Goode, Diana Nammi, Nazir Afzal), Official Site, Trailer
The story of Banaz Mahmod, murdered for leaving her abusive husband and falling in love with another man.
Black Biscuit
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Fabrizio Federico; Writer: Fabrizio Federico; Stars: Fabrizio Federico, Victoria Howard, Daniel Angelus)
A young man's search for a job leads to sexual experimentation.
Black Smoke Rising
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Drew Cullingham; Writer: Drew Cullingham; Stars: James Fisher, Wil Johnson, Jill Greenacre)
An alcoholic man travels with his brother's ghost in search of something precious.
City Slacker
(Year: 2012; Director: James Larkin; Writer: Michael Mueller; Stars: Fiona Gilles, Geoffrey Streatfield, Tom Conti, Adrian Lukis, Matilda Ziegler, Richard Lumsden)
An ambitious, successful woman seeks an unambitious, unsuccessful man to be a house husband.
Confine
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Tobias Tobbell; Writer: Tobias Tobbell; Stars: Daisy Lowe, Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett)
A disfigured former model is threatened by a dangerous con artist.
Frank
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Richard Heslop; Writer: Richard Heslop; Stars: Con O’Neill, Kellie Shirley, Darren Beaumont)
A man with obsessive compulsive disorder, living in difficult circumstances, finds his existence disrupted by two strangers.
Janapar
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: James Newton; Writer: James Newton; Stars: Tom Allen)
A journey to Iran entails unexpected adventure in this travel documentary.
Live East Die Young
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Laura Hypponen; Writer: Laura Hypponen; Stars: Zoe Grisedale, James Jeannette Main, Lewis Grolle)
Sex, drugs and rock n' roll prove more taxing than Emma anticipated.
The Lottery Of Birth
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Raoul Martinez, Joshua van Praag; Writer: Raoul Martinez; Stars: Howard Zinn, George Monbiot, Steven Pinker)
An exploration of learned behaviour, its innate psychological underpinnings, and the consequences of obedience.
Love Tomorrow
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Christopher Payne; Writer: Christopher Payne; Stars: Cindy Jourdain, Arionel Vargas, Max Brown, Samuel Barnett, John McArdle)
Two dancers get talking on an escalator and gradually find themselves embarking on a relationship.
Normal
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Nicola Mai; Stars: Selami Brehaj, Matthew Crowley, Annie Labura)
The stories of diverse individuals with experience of sex trafficking problematise the issue.
StringCaesar
(Country: UK, South Africa, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Paul Schoolman; Writer: Paul Schoolman; Stars: Derek Jacobi, Warren Adler)
Famous thesps work alongside prison inmates to perform Shakespeare.
Strings
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rob Savage; Writer: Rob Savage; Stars: Philine Lembeck, Oliver Malam, Hannah Wilder, Sid Akbar Ali
)
Four young people about to leave home for university find themselves involved in complex romantic situations in this debut feature made on a shoestring budget by a teenager.
Trashed
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Candida Brady; Writer: Candida Brady; Stars: Jeremy Irons)
A look at the international trade in trash.
Vinyl
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Sara Sugarman; Writer: Sara Sugarman, Jim Cooper; Stars: Perry Benson, Phil Daniels, Jamie Blackley, Keith Allen
)
Teenage kicks.
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