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01 Brighton Rock

02 West is West

03 Jane Eyre

04 Oranges and Sunshine

05 Coriolanus

06 The First Grader

07 The Awakening

08 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

09 My Week With Marilyn

10 In Our Name

11 We Need To Talk About Kevin

12 Perfect Sense

Microwave:Micro-Budget film making scheme13 The British Guide to Showing Off

14 Strawberry Fields

iFeatures:Micro-studio initiative

15 Introducing:

The Dark Half,

Eight Minutes Idle and

Flying Blind

Credits Are Not Contractual

Highlights from the Back CataloContents

16 Africa United

16 Billy Elliot

17 The Boy in the Striped

Pyjamas

17The Boys Are Back

17 Brideshead Revisited

17 Bright Star

18 Bullet Boy

18 Confetti

18 Creation

18 The Damned United

19 Dirty Pretty Things

19 The Duchess

19 Eastern Promises

19 Easy Virtue

20 Edge of Darkness20 The Edge of Love

20 An Education

20 Fi sh Tank

21 Glastonbury

21 Glorious 39

21 The History Boys

21 In the Loop

22 In This World

22 Iris

22 Is Anybody There?

22 Last Resort

23 Love is the Devil23 Made in Dagenham

23 Man on Wire

23 The Meerkats

24 The Men Who

Stare at Goats

24 Millions

24 Miss Potter

24 The Mother

25 Mrs Brown

25 Mrs Henderson

25 My Summer of L

25 Nativity

26 Notes on a Scan

26 Of Time and the

26 The Other Boley

26 Ratcatcher

27 Red Road27 Revolutionary R

27 Shooting Dogs

27 Star ter for Ten

28 StreetDance

28 Sweet Sixteen

28 Sylvia

28 Tamara Drewe

29 Tormen ted

29 Valhalla Risin g

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At the heart of the story is Pinkies relationship with Rose an innocent young waitress whostumbles on evidence linking Pinki e and his gang to a revenge killing. After the murder, Pinkieseduces Rose, first in an effort to find out how much she knows and latterly to ensure she will no

talk to the police . A love story between a murderer and a witness, can Pinkie trust Rose or shouhe kill her before she talks to the police? Can Rose trust Pinkie or is she next in line?

Writer/director Rowan Joffe has decided to set the film in 1964, with its famous South Coastquasi-riots between emerging teenage Mods and older Rockers, which contextualizes Pinkies yorebellion perfectly.

Starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Nonso Anozie, Phil Davies,Andy SerkisScreenplay/Director Rowan Joffe

Producer Paul WebsterExecutive ProducersJenny Borgar s, Will Clar ke,Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern, Jamie LaurensonSales Agent StudioCanal

Brighton RockStudio Canal Features, Optimum Releasing, BBC Films and UK Film Council presenta Kudos Pictures production

Adapted from Graham Greenes brilliant 1939 novel, BRIGHTONROCK charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wieldingdisadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

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West is WestBBC Films presents a Leslee Udwin/Assassin Films production

WEST IS WEST is the coming of age story of both 15 yearold Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George Ghengis Khan.

Manchester, North of England, 1976. The nowmuch diminished, but still claustrophobic anddysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle forsurvival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of thelitter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavyassault both from his fathers tyrannical insistenceon Pakistani tradition and from the fierce bulliesin the schoolyard. So in a last attempt to sor thim out, his father decides to pack him off to MrsKhan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife anddaughters he had abandoned 30 years earlie r. Itis not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No 2),

with a small entourage from Salford, England,swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past andpresent.

WEST IS WEST is the sequel to theinternationally acclaimed and successful filmEAST IS EAST. From the same writer (based onautobiographical events) and produced by thesame creative team the sequel takes the Khanfamily on a journey from Salford, England torural Pakistan.

Starring Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Aqib Khan,Emil Marwa, Jimi Mi stry, Vijay Raaz,Lesley Nicol, Ila Arun

Screenplay Ayub Khan Din

Director Andy de Emmony

Producer Leslee Udwin

Executive ProducersJane Wright,

Shaana Levy, Kim Romer

Sales Agent Icon Entertainment International

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Jane EyreFocus Features and BBC Films present a Ruby Films production

Charlotte Bronts darkly haunting story of ayoung girls passionate search for true love.

Adapted from Charlotte Bronts celebrated gothic 19th Century novel, JANE EYRE isthe thrillin g, beautifully romantic stor y of a plain but spir ited girls bravery in the face ofhypocrisy and cruelty.

Escaping a brutal childhood, Jane finds employment as a governess at Thornfield House.When Rochester, the wild and brooding master of the house returns, Janes life takes a

surpris ing twist as her love for him grows. But a chilling secret haunts the corridor s ofThornfield that forces Jane to make the most difficult choice of her life.

Janes extraordinary story ear ned her, and her author, a global fan-base from themoment the book was published. This film will introduce her to a new audience,reminding us why this is one of the most popular and enduring stories of all time.

Starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Sally HawkinsScreenplay Moira Buffini adapted from the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontDirector Cary FukunagaProducers Alison Owen, Paul TrijbitsExecutive Producers Christine Langan, Peter HampdenSales Agent Focus Features

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Screen Australia and Little Gaddesden Productions present in association with FulcrumMedia Finance, EM Media, South Australian Film Corporation, Deluxe, Screen NSW and BBCFilms a Sixteen Films / See-Saw Films production.

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social workerfrom Nottingham who uncovered one of the most

significant social scandals of recent times; thedeportation of thousands of children from theUnited Kingdom to Australia.

Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her ownwell-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drewworldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Children as young as fourhad been told that their parents were dead, and been sent to childrens homes on the otherside of the world. Many were subjected to appalling abuse. They were promised orangesand sunshine: they got hard labour and life in institutions.

Starring Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo WeavingScreenplay Rona Munro based on the book Empty Cradles by Margaret HumphreysDirectorJim LoachProducers Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Camilla BrayExecutive Producers Rebecca OBrien, Arnab BanerjiSales Agent Icon Enter tainment International

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CoriolanusHermetof Pictures, Kalkronkie LLP and Icon Entertainment International present iassociation with Magna Films, Atlantic Swiss Productions Ltd, Lipsync ProductionsLLP, BBC Films and Artemis Films, Magnolia Mae Films, and Synchronistic Pictures aLonely Dragon Production. A film by Ralph Fiennes.

A contemporary version of Shakespearesdangerous political thriller.

The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus , the hero of Rome, a great soldier aa man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views ignite a masriot. Rome is bloody.

Manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother VolumnCoriolanus is banished from Rome. He offers his life or his services to his swornenemy Tullus Aufidius. Coriolanus and Aufidius march on Rome intending todestroy the city. Volumnia appeals to her son. He tries to reject her but eventualbreaks. Aufidius, feeling bitterly betrayed, brutally murders Coriolanus.

Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox,James Nesbitt, Jessica ChastainScreenplayJohn Logan from the play by William ShakespeareDirector Ralph FiennesProducers Colin Vaines, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Gabrielle Tana, Ralph Fiennes, John LoganExecutive Producers Marko Miskovic, Will Young, Robert Whitehouse,Christopher Figg, Norman Mer ry, Christine Langan, Stewart TillSales Agent Icon Entertainment International

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The First GraderBBC and UKFC present in association with Videovision and Lip Sync A Sixth Sense/Origin Picturesproduction. A Justin Chadwick film.

The remarkable, true story of Maruge, an ex Mau Mau freedomfighter who fights for the right to go to school for the first time atthe age of 84.

Starring Naomie Harris, Oliver LitondoDirectorJusti n ChadwickScreenplay Ann PeacockProducers Richard Hardi ng, Sam Feuer, David M ThompsonExecutive ProducersJoe Oppenheime r, Norman Merr y,Anant Singh, Helena SpringSales Agents Distant Horizon/Goldcrest Films International

When the Kenyan government introduces freeprimary school education for all, Kimani Maruge,an 84 year old village elder and Mau Mau veteran,sees this as the opportunity to have theeducation he has so long been denied even if itmeans sitting alongside 6 year olds.

Having fought and suffered to liberate his country,Maruge feels his country owes him. Together withhead teacher Jane Obinchu, he faces fierceopposition from parents and officials reluctant tosee a precious school place wasted on an oldman. Full of vitality and humour, THE FIRSTGRADER tells the uplifting story of one mansstruggle to overcome the demons of his past

through the power of education.

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The AwakeningStudio Canal Features present, BBC Films present in association with Creative Scotland and Lip SyncProductions an Origin Pictures production in association with Studio Canal and Eagle Pictures.

A ghost-debunker comes to a boys school to disprovethe existence of ghosts, only to find her own beliefschallenged. A classic Victorian ghost-story in the traditionof MR James.

THE AWAKENING is set in 1921, in a post-war world of loss where the bereaved seek solace inspiritualism. Haunted by the death of her fianc, Florence spends her time debunking supernaturalclaims, using methodical and rational explanations to disprove the notion that the dead can still hauntus. So she feels compelled to accept a request to go to Rookwood, a boarding school in thecountryside where a boy has recently been found dead and rumours about a ghostly boy haunting theschool are causing panic amongst pupils and parents alike.

Florence sets to work immediately, laying traps, gathering scientific evidence, uncovering secretsand seemingly unravelling the myster y. However, as Florence is about to leave, she has a chillingspectral encounter which defies all of her rational beliefs and sets her on a journey toward aheartbreaking climax

Starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda StauntonScreenplay Stephen Volk, Nick MurphyDirector Nick MurphyProducers David M Thompson, Sarah Curtis, Julia StannardExecutive ProducersJenny Borgars, Joe Oppenheimer, Will Clarke, Olivier Courson,Norman Merry, Carole SheridanSales Agent StudioCanal

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Salmon Fishing

in the YemenBBC Films, Lions Gate UK, Lionsgate, the UK Film Council present a Kudos Pictures Production inassociation with Davis Films Productions. A Lasse Hallstrm Film.An extraordinary, beguiling tale of fly-fishing and politicalspinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love

Romantic fable SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN follows government scientistDr. Alfred Jones (McGregor) as a fly fishing-obsessed Sheikh tasks him with the seemingly impossible introducing salmon to the wadis of the Yemen. With the British government desperate for a good newsstory in the area, the Prime Ministers fearsome spokesperson, Patricia Maxwell (Thomas), seizes on theidea and makes Fred responsible for the success of the project. Finally won over by the charismaticSheikh, Fred also begins to fall for his representative, Harriet (Blunt). Casting off his deep-set cynicism,Fred rises to the Sheikhs eccentric challenge: to go on a journey of self discovery and late blooming love.

Starring Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott ThomasScreenplay Simon Beaufoy based on the book Salmon F ishing in the Yemen by Paul TordayDirector Lasse HallstrmProducer Paul Webster

Executive ProducersJamie Laurenson, Zygi Kamasa, Guy AvshalomSales Agent Lionsgate

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My Week with MarilynThe Weinstein Company, BBC Films and Trademark Films present in association with

Lip Sync Productions a Trademark Films production.

A compassionate comedy about the secret week that ColinClark spent in the company of the most famous woman onearth: Marilyn Monroe.

In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make hisway in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Pr ince and the Showgirl, the film thatfamously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn arrives like a ray of light in a grey world but as she struggles to adjust, Colin Clark becomes herconfidant and guide through the personal and professional culture clash of working in England. From

this unlikely alli ance blossoms a re lationship Coli n would never forget...

Starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson,Julia Ormond, Judi DenchScreenplay Adrian Hodges adapted from the book My Week with Marilyn by Colin ClarkDirector Simon CurtisProducer David ParfittExecutive Producers Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jamie Laurenson, Simon Curtis, Ivan Mactaggar tSales AgentThe Weinstein Company

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In Our NameCurzon Artificial Eye and NFTS in association with BBC Films and Front Page Filmspresent an Escape Films & A10 Films production.For this solider, the real battle is coming home.

Suzy's a British soldier, born and bred, but fitting back into civilian life after fighting in Iraq isn't easy.Haunted by the responsibility she feels for the death of an Iraqi child, she becomes obsessed with thesafety of her own daughter, feeling the need to protect her against a threat that doesn't seem to exist.As Suzy's paranoia builds, her behaviour becomes more and more erratic, until finally, she puts her ownchild in serious danger.

StarringJoanne Froggatt, Mel Raido, Andrew KnottDirector / Screenplay Brian WelshProducer Michelle EastwoodExecutive Producers Philip Knatchbull, Nik Powell, Daniel ChamierSales Agent High Point Films

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We Need to TalkAbout KevinBBC Films and UK Film Council Present in association with Footprint Investmen

LLP Caemhan Partnership LLP And Lipsync Productions an Independent / JenniFox production in association with Artina Films and Forward Films.A film by Lynne Ramsay.

A fifteen year old boy kills his classmates in aColumbine-style massacre. His mothergrapples with the terrible question nature nurture: what made her son a monster?

We Need To Talk About Kevin is the story of Eva (Swinton), Franklin (Reilly) an

Kevin (Miller), who two days before his sixteenth birthday, goes on a horrificrampage. In the wake of his actions, his mother Eva grapples with her own feelof grief and responsibility. She confront s the ultimate taboo did she ever loveson? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?

StarringTilda Swinton, John C . Reilly, Ezra MillerScreenplay Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear based on the novel We Need to Talk AKevin by Lionel ShriverDirector Lynne RamsayProducersJennifer Fox, Luc Roeg, Bob SalernoExecutive Producers Steven Soderbergh, Christine Langan, Paula Jalfon, ChristopFigg, Robert Whitehouse, Dermot OLeary, Michael Robinson, Norman Merry, LLambert, Tilda SwintonSales Agent Independent Film Company

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Perfect SenseBBC Films presents in association with Zentropa Entertainments5 and Scottish Screen with theparticipation of Bord Scannn na hireann/the Irish Film Board with the participation of the Danish FilmInstitute and Film I Vst a Sigmaville Production

The story of two people who begin to fall in love as the worldbegins to fall apart.

Susan is a scientist. Michael is a chef. He takes abreak from the kitchen heat in the alleywaybelow her apartment; she smokes a cigarette at

the window above. He calls up for a li ght thefirst spark in their passionate affair.

But the world is about to change dramatically. Aslove turns Susan and Michaels lives upside down,people across the globe begin to experience

strange symptoms, which first affect the emotionsthen the senses, one by one .

Everything changes. But people laugh, they cry,they eat and drink , they go about their dailybusiness. They adapt, they change, they cope, theylive and they love because life must go on. Andso it does.

Starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane,Denis Lawson, Connie NielsenDirector David MackenzieScreenplay Kim Fupz AakesonProducers Gillian Berrie, Malte GrunertExecutive ProducersJamie Laurenson, Peter Aalbaeck Jensen, PeterGarde, Tomas Eskils son, Carole Sher idan, David MackenzieSales AgentTrustNordisk

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The British Guide to

Showing OffFilm London and Film Agency for Wales present a Living Cinema Production. A Microwave film inassociation with BBC Films.

MICROWAVE

For the outsider inside all of us.

British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, taus under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic costume pageant: the Alternative MisWorld Show.

The show is not about beauty, its about transformation; the ordinary becoming extraordinary. Logadescribes it as his most important ar twork a living sculpture that spans 40 years of arts and cultu

Using observational filming, unique archive, exuberant animation, and plenty of humour, thisdocumentary follows Logan mounting the 2009 Show, interwoven with its history - with contributoincluding Brian Eno, Richard OBrien, Zandra Rhodes and Grayson Perry.

DirectorJes Benstock

Producer Dorigen HammondSales Agent Film London

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Strawberry FieldsFilm London presents a Spring Pictures production. A Microwave film produced with thesupport of Kent County Council Film Office and in association with BBC Films. Developed w

the assistance of S creen East and the UK F ilm Councils Regional I nvestment Fund for Englaand made with the support of Screen South.

A classic love triangle of two sisters, a story of siblinrivalry and the man that comes between them

Gillian cycles away from her old life, changes her name and gets a job picking fruit. Gorgeoubad boy Kev pops a strawberry in her mouth and suddenly anything seems possible.

Her sister Emily tracks her down and reminds her who she really is and how she must be.Emily is used to having her own way but for once Gillian decides to fight back and a battle

wills ensues.

Strawberry Fields takes the play A Streetcar Named Desire as its starting point, this time tofrom Stellas point of view. Complex entanglements and the destructive , manipulative gamea jealous sister makes Strawberry Fields an unsettling rites of passage film, bursting with enesex, humour and dark turns.

Starring Anna Madeley, Christine Bottomley, Emun ElliottDirector Frances LeaScreenplay Frances Lea, Judith JohnsonProducers Liam Beatty, Lucie WenigerovaSales Agent Film London

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iFeaturesSouth West Screens iFeatures micro-studio initiative,backed by BBC Films and the City of Bristol, was launcheda year ago, with the aim of providing a pathway tofeatures for the citys most outstanding creative talent as

well attracting some of the best emerging filmmakersfrom across the UK and Europe.

iFeatures attracted 550 project submissions from acrossthe UK, with these being gradually whittled down to threevia an intensive creative and commercial developmentprocess. The selected films will shoot late 2010/early2011 and offer a refreshingly radical take on some

popular genres as well as a keen sense of location.

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The Dark HalfSouth West Screen and BBC Films present in associationwith Matador Pictures, Film Agency for Wales and the Cityof Bristol. A Bard Entertainments/iFeatures Production

A chilling ghost story about a teenage girl's journey throughher own haunted imagination.

StarringTony Curran, Jessica Barden, Lyndsey MarshallDirector Alastair SiddonsScreenplay Lucy CatherineProducer Margaret MathesonSales Agent ContentFilm International

Eight Minutes IdleSouth West Screen, UK Film Council and BBC Filmspresent in association with Matador Pictures and theCity of Bristol. An ArthurCox/iFeatures Production

A twisted romantic comedy set against the nocturnal

comings and goings of a Bristol call centre.

Director Mark Simon HewisScreenplay Nicholas Blincoe, Matt Thorne, based upon

the novel Eight Minutes Idle by Matt ThorneProducer Sarah CoxSales Agent ContentFilm International

Flying BlindSouth West Screen and BBC Films present in associationwith Matador Pictures and the City of Bristol.

An Ignition Films/iFeatures Production

A thrilling mix of state secrets, race, politics and loyaltywith a passionate physical love story at its heart.

Director Kasia KlimkiewiczScreenplay Caroline HarringtonProducer Alison SterlingSales Agent ContentFilm International

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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. Whats a poor boy to do?Billys Mam is dead, his brother beats him up fornicking his Marc Bolan records, his Dads worriedabout the strike, his Grannys lost her marbles, thestreets are full of riot police. And Billy wants to be

ballet dancer.

Starring

Jamie Bell,Julie Walters,Gary Lewis

Director

Stephen Daldry

Screenplay

Lee Hall

Sales Agent

Universal Focus

AFRICA UNITED

A Path, UK Film Council and BBC Films Production

Africa United tells the extraordinary story of threeRwandan children and their bid to achieve theirlifelong dream to take part in the openingceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup inJohannesburg.

On the way to the vital selection trial, disaster strikeswhen Fabrice, Dudu and Batrice board the wrong

bus and cross into the Congo. Without papers,money or a believable story, they are escorted to achildrens refugee camp. But with considerableingenuity and sass, our heroes escape and set off inpursuit of their dream, picking up along the way adream team of displaced kids, who help themnegotiate a series of thrilling adventures.

Starring

Eriya Ndayambaje,Sanyu Joanita Kintu,Roger Nsengiyumva,Sherrie Silver,Yves Dusenge

Director

Debs Gardner-Paterson

Screenplay

Rhidian Brook

Sales Agent

Path International

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THE BOYS ARE BACK

Screen Australia and South Australian Film

Corporation and BBC Films in association with

Hopscotch Films and Miramax Films present a Tiger

Aspect Pictures production in association with

Southern Light Films of a Scott Hicks film

In a story both moving and humorous, Clive Owen playsjournalist Joe Warr, tragically thrust in to singleparenthood. Determined to create a family with twosons from different marriages, Joe throws the rule bookout of the window and devises a philosophy for bringingup boys, only to find he has a lot to learn aboutfatherhood and about himself. Based on the memoir bySimon Carr.

Starring

Clive Owen

Director

Scott Hicks

Screenplay

Allan Cubitt from thebook The Boys Are Back inTown by Simon Car r

Sales Agent

HanWay Films

Starring

Ben Whishaw,Abbie Cornish

Screenplay/Director

Jane Campion

Sales Agent

Path International

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

Miramax Films, UK Film Council, HanWay Films and

BBC Films present in association with 2 Entertain and

Screen Yorkshire an Ecosse Films production, a Julian

Jarrold film

Charles Ryder leaves behind a modest backgroundwhen he goes up to Oxford and joins the flamboyantsocial world of Sebastian Flyte and his aristocraticCatholic family. Captivated immediately by the opulentgrandeur of the Flytes ancestral home, Brideshead, hisattentions quickly settle on Sebastians beautiful sister,Lady Julia. The passions between these three play outto devastating effect, as Lady Marchmain attempts toprotect her familys religious integrity. But by thetime Charles and Julia are finally united, the burdenof Brideshead and all it represents weighs heavilyupon them.

Starring

Matthew Goode,Ben Whishaw,Hayley Atwell,Emma Thompson,Michael Gambon

Director

Julian Jarrold

Screenplay

Jeremy Brock, AndrewDavies from the novelBrideshead Revisited byEvelyn Waugh

Sales Agent

HanWay Films

BRIGHT STAR

Path Productions, Film Finance Corporation

Australia, BBC Films and the UK Film Council pre

in association with the New South Wales Film an

Television Office and Hopscotch International

London 1818: a secret love affair begins between23-year-old English poet, John Keats and the girl nexdoor, Fanny Brawne. When she asks him to teach habout poetry, he agrees.

The poetry soon becomes a romantic remedy thatworks not only to sort their differences, but fuel animpassioned love affair. I have the feeling as if I wadissolving Keats writes.

When Keats falls ill a year later, the two young loveface not marriage, but separation. In Keats ownpoignant words, forever panting and forever young

THE BOY IN THESTRIPED PYJAMASMiramax Films in Association with BBC Films

present a Heyday Films production

Eight year old Bruno knows nothing of the FinalSolution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to theappalling cruelties being inflicted on the people ofEurope by his country. A ll he knows is that he hasbeen moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to ahouse in a desolate area where there is nothing todo and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel,

a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on theother side of the adjoining wire fence and who, likethe other people there, wears a uniform of stripedpyjamas. Brunos friendship with Shmuel will take himfrom innocence to revelation. And in exploring whathe is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably becomesubsumed by the terrible process.

Starring

Asa Butterfield,David Thewlis,Vera Farmiga,Sheila Hancock

Screenplay/Director

Mark Herman based onthe best-sellin g bookThe Boy in the StripedPyjamas by John Boyne

Sales Agent

Miramax International

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CONFETTI

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 theimagination and style to win the title of The MostOriginal Wedding of the Year?

Confetti magazine seeks three couples who intend towed in a unique ceremony that combines originalityand style.

You will have the chance to win a dream homeworth half a million pounds, and be the stars ofConfetti magazine.

You will have the help of the best weddings planners inthe world.

Your journey will be filmed.

StarringJessica Stevenson,Martin Freeman,Alison Steadman,Stephen Mangan,Jimmy Carr

Screenplay/DirectorDebbie Isitt

Sales Agent

Fox Searchlight

CREATION

Jeremy Thomas presents in associ ation with Ocean

Pictures, BBC Films and HanWay Films a Recorded

Picture Company product ion. A Jon Amiel film.

Darwins travels are complete his battle is with hisconscience. As he fights to put to paper his theory onnatural selection, he is haunted by the memory of hisdead daughter, Annie and burdened with theknowledge that his words will undermine the beliefsystem that has been his wifes only support.

StarringPaul Bettany,Jennifer Connelly

Director

Jon Amiel

ScreenplayJohn Collee

Sales Agent

HanWay Films

THE DAMNED UNITED

Sony Pictures Releasing International, BBC Films i

association with Screen Yorkshire present a Left B

Pictures production

Taking over from his hated rival, Don Revie, Cloughdetermined to destroy the soul of his new club.

Revies Leeds were peerless, cynical, inspired. No oloathed them more than Clough. The feeling wasmutual. Clough is alone, haunted and sleeplessthroughout his br ief and painful stint as manager ofLeeds United. The compulsive, flawed and tragic fighe cuts takes on Shakespearian dimensions and preus with a football managers guide to heaven and he

StarringMichael Sheen,Jim Broadbent,Timothy Spall

Director

Tom Hooper

ScreenplayPeter Morgan from thnovel The Damned Uby David Peace

Sales Agent

Sony Pictures ReleasinInternational

BULLET BOY

BBC Films and the UK Film Council in association

with Portman Films present a Shine Production in

association with BBC Films

Ricky is a black teenager from Londons East End, ayoung offender who is one step away from becominganother statistic in the prison system. He issurrounded by friends who have crossed that lineand the future looks bleak. Nevertheless it is hisyounger brother Curtis, torn between the allure ofhis brother and his Mums more wholesome plansfor him, who is really in the firing line. This movingdrama explores the lives of young black men onthe edge.

StarringAshley Walters,Luke Fraser,Clare Perkins,Leon Black

Director

Saul Dibb

ScreenplaySaul Dibb,Catherine R Johnson

Sales Agent

Portman Film andTelevision

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THE DUCHESS

Path Productions and BBC Films present in

association with Path Renn Production and

BIM Distribuzione, A Qwerty Films / Magnolia

Mae Production

Sensitive, extravagant and wildly charismatic, Georgiana Duchess of Devonsh ire was the It Girl of the late1700s. Married young to a cool and distant Duke, andthe intimate of mini sters and p rinces Georgianafashionista and political mover was credited withswinging the election in the Whigs favour in 1785.

At the core of her story is a desperate search forwarmth and love, which leads her into a passionateaffair with future Prime Minister Charles Grey, and anintense and complex friendship with a woman who willultimately betray her.

StarringKeira Knightley,Ralph Fiennes,Dominic Cooper,Charlotte Rampling

Director

Saul Dibb

ScreenplayJeffrey Hatcher, Saul Dibb

Sales Agent

Path International

EASY VIRTUE

Ealing Studios in association with Odyssey

Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment and BBC

present a Fragile Film in association with Joe Abra

Productions and Prescience Production Partnersh

A young English aristocrat falls madly in love with a and glamorous American woman and they impetuoget married. When the couple arrive at his family hohis mother has an instant allergic reaction to everytabout her new daughter in law.

StarringJessica Biel,Colin Firth,Kristin Scott Thomas,Ben Barnes

Director

Stephan Elliott

ScreenplayStephan Elliott andSheridan Jobbins basethe play Easy Virtue byNoel Coward

Sales Agent

Ealing Studios

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 themurder of a young prostitute and finds herself snared inthe deadly world of the Russian mafia.

StarringViggo Mortensen,Naomi Watts,Vincent Cassel,Armin Mueller-Stahl

Director

David Cronenberg

ScreenplaySteve Knight

Sales Agents

Focus Features(International),Path Distribution (UK)

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS

Miramax Films and BBC Films present a

Celador Films Production

When illegal immigrant Okwe discovers the gruesomeevidence of trade in human organs, he uses hisprofessional skills and social invisibility to expose andput an end to the trafficking in this award-winningurban thriller.

StarringAudrey Tautou ,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Sergi Lopez,Sophie Okonedo,Benedict Wong

DirectorStephen Frears

Screenplay

Steve Knight

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THE EDGE OF LOVE FISH TANKAN EDUCATIONEDGE OF DARKNESSCon


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A John Maybury Film Capitol Films and BBC Films

present in association with the Wales Creative IP Fund

and Prescience Film Partners 2, a Sarah Radclyffe

Production, a Rainy Day Films Production

From the acclaimed director of Love is the Devil comesan extraordinary portrait of Dylan Thomas and thewomen in his life. Four lives are thrust together withheart breaking results in this intimate tale of sex and

betrayal in war-torn Britain.

StarringKeira Knightley,Sienna Miller,Cillian Murphy,Matthew Rhys

DirectorJohn Maybur y

Screenplay

Sharman Macdonald

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BBC Films

THE EDGE OF LOVE FISH TANK

BBC Films and the UK Film Council in association

Limelight present a Kees Kasander production. An

Andrea Arnold film

FISH TANK is the BAFTA award winning story of Miavolatile 15-year-old, who is always in trouble and whobecome excluded from school and ostracized by herfriends. One hot summers day, her mother brings homysterious stranger called Connor who promises tochange everything and bring love into all their lives.

Touching on the themes of her Academy Award wishort Wasp, FISH TANK is an original and unsettling tfor our age.

StarringKatie Jarvis,Kierston Wareing,Michael Fassbender,Rebecca Griffiths,Harr y Treadaway

Screenplay/DirectorAndrea Arnold

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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. Herparents have built their own dreams of fulfilment basedon Jennys success. However, her eyes are opened to aworld of glamorous possibility beyond the boundariesof suburbia when she meets the considerably older,distinctly urbane, David

StarringPeter Sarsgaard,Carey Mulligan,Alfred Molina,Rosamund Pike,Dominic Cooper,Olivia Williams,Emma Thompson,Sally Hawkins

DirectorLone Scherfig

Screenplay

Nick Hornby

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HanWay Films

EDGE OF DARKNESS

A GK Films production

Thomas Craven is a veteran homicide detective for theBoston Police Department and a single father. When hisonly child, Emma, is murdered on the steps of his home,everyone assumes that he was the target. He suspectsotherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out abouthis daughters secret life and her killing. His investigationleads him into a world of corporate cover-ups,government collusion and murder and to shady

government operative, Darius Jedburgh.

StarringMel Gibson,Ray Winstone,Danny Huston,Bojana Novakovic,Shawn Roberts

Director

Martin Campbell

ScreenplayWilliam Monahan,Andrew Bovell, from anoriginal story by TroyKennedy Martin

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GK Films

GLORIOUS 39 THE HISTORY BOYS IN THE LOOPGLASTONBURYCon


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GLORIOUS 39

BBC Films, UK Film Council, Screen East Content

Investment Fund and Quickfire Films in association with

Momentum Pictures present a Talkback Thames

production in association with Magic Light Pictures.

A Stephen Poliakoff film.

In the gorgeous summer of 1939, Anne seems to live agilded life a budding young actress, shes the adopteddaughter of Tory grandee Alexander and head-over-heelsin love with Foreign Office official Lawrence. Shediscovers some innocent-seeming recordings of meetings but as she begins to understand quite what herdiscoveries mean, a tangled web of dark secrets begins tounfurl. People who have come into contact with therecordings are threatened and even die. The innocentcertainties on which her life has been based dramaticallyunravel and amidst a growing sense of menace andbetrayal, she has to confront the bitter choice she will beforced to make.

StarringRomola Garai,Bill Nighy,Julie Chri stie,Eddie Redmayne,Juno Temple,Hugh Bonneville,David Tennant,and Jeremy Northam,with Christopher Lee

Screenplay/DirectorStephen Poliakoff

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The Works International

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 history students in pursuit of an undergraduateplace at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between theirmaverick English teacher, a young and shrewd professorhired to up their test scores, a grossly outnumberedhistory teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results the boys attempt to sif t through it all to pass thedaunting university admissions process.

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

StarringRichard Griffiths,Frances De L a Tour,Stephen Campbell Moore

DirectorNicholas Hytner

Screenplay

Alan Bennett

Sales Agents

Fox Searchlight (US),Twentieth CenturyFox (UK)

IN THE LOOP

BBC Films and UK Film Council present in associ

with Aramid Entertainment an Armando Iannucci

Wars a bad thing. Right?

The US President and UK Prime Minister suddenly another war in the Middle East. Itll be quick this timPromise. The USs General Miller doesnt think so aBritish Min ister, Simon Foster, agrees with him. Howafter Simon accidentally backs military action onprime-time TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends inWashington

StarringJames Gandolfini,Mimi Kennedy,Tom Hollander,Peter Capaldi,Chris Addison,Gina McKee

Director

Armando Iannucci

ScreenplayArmando Iannucci,Jesse Armstrong,Tony Roche ,Simon Blackwell

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Protagonist Pictures

GLASTONBURY

BBC Films presents in association with HanWay Films

Limited and Emap Performance a Newhouse Nitrate

Production of a Julien Temple Film

In 1970, a young farmer named Michael Eavis opened hisfarm to 1,500 people who paid one pound each towatch a handful of pop and folk stars perform allweekend long, and so the Glastonbury Festival was born.

For more than 30 years, the Worthy Farm in Glastonbur yhas played host to a delirious outdoor concert forthousands of people over the summer-solstice weekendat the end of June. Interweaving images of impromptuart happenings, sceptical locals, and stirring performancesby a host of music legends, not to mention the unbridledenergy of each successive generation of youthful musicfans, Julien Temples Glastonbury chronicles the evolutionof the longest-running music festival in the world.

DirectorJulien Temple

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HanWay Films

IRIS IS ANYBODY THERE? LAST RESORTIN THISWORLDCon


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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 betweenthe novelist and phil osopher Iris Mu rdoch and herhusband, John Bayley. From the romance of their earlydays at Oxford in the 1950s, to her tragic death in 1999.

StarringJudi Dench,Jim Broadbent,Kate Winslet,Hugh Bonneville

Director

Richard Eyre

ScreenplayRichard Eyre andCharles Wood, basedon John Bayleys booksIris: A Memoir and Elegyfor Iris

Sales Agents

Miramax International(North America), BBCFilms (UK), IS FilmDistribution (ROW)

IS ANYBODY THERE?

Story Island Entertainment and Big Beach Present In

Association with BBC Films A Heyday Films/Big

Beach Production

Edward hates living in the old peoples home run by hisparents. His only interest is a morbid obsession withghosts, death and the afterlife . Until, that is, the arrivalof reluctant new resident, Clarence a retired magicianwith a liberating streak of anarchy. Together thisdelightful odd couple overcome their personaldrawbacks, and learn that you are never too old, or tooyoung, to grow up.

StarringMichael Caine,Anne-Marie Duff,David Morrissey,Bill Milner,Leslie Phillips,Elisabeth Spriggs

DirectorJohn Crowley

Screenplay

Peter Harness

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Hanway Films

LAST RESORT

A BBC Films/BBC Documentaries Production

Tanya, young and nave, leaves Moscow with herstreet-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet herEnglish fianc. Af ter he fails to turn up at the airpoTanya and her son find themselves virtuallyimprisoned in a dead-end seaside resort.

StarringDina Korzun,Paddy Considine,Artiom Strelnikov,Lindsey Honey

Screenplay/DirectorPawel Pawlikowski

Co-writer

Rowan Joffe

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The Works Internatio

IN THIS WORLD

The Film Consortium and BBC Films in association

with The Film Council present a Revolution Films

production. A Michael Winterbottom film.

Following the arduous journey made by two young menfrom their refugee camp in Pakistan to a better life inthe UK, this powerful film br ings us face to face withthe shocking hardships and tragedi es endured byasylum seekers.

StarringJamal Udin Torabi,Enayatullah

Director

Michael Winterbottom

ScreenplayTony Grisoni

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The WorksInternational

MAN ON WIRE THE MEERKATSMADE IN DAGENHAMLOVE IS THE DEVILCon


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Discovery Films, BBC, The UK Film Council present

a Wall To Wall Production in association wi th Red

Box Films

A feature length documentary. The film is a dramaticretelling of Philippe Petits daring, and illegalscheme to walk the high-wire be tween New Yorkstwin towers in 1974 the ar tistic crime of the20th century.

DirectorJames Marsh

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BBC Films and The Weinstein Company present a

Yaffle Films and BBC Natural History Unit produc

The Meerkats is an inspiring look at how one familyconnection to each other and their surroundings is model of resilience and fortitude for us all. Shot usigroundbreaking filming techniques, The Meerkats is one-of-a-kind presentati on from The WeinsteinCompany and the BBC, the worlds pre-eminentnature filmmakers.

NarratorPaul Newman

Director

James Honeyborne

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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 localwomen, she works at the Ford plant stitching togetherseat covers. Its intricate work, carried out in swelteringconditions. So why, she wonders, are the workers paidthe same as unskill ed labourers? Is it because the workis unskilled? Or is it in fact because they are women?

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

StarringSally Hawkins,Bob Hoskins,Miranda Richardson,Geraldine James,Rosamund Pike,Andrea Riseborough,Daniel Mays

DirectorNigel Cole

Screenplay

William Ivory

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HanWay Films

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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 ar tist Francis Bacon and the story ofhis tragic love affair with a small-time criminal,George Dyer.

StarringDerek Jacobi,Daniel Craig,Tilda Swinton

Screenplay/DirectorJohn Maybur y

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HanWay Films

MILLIONS MISS POTTER THE MOTHERTHE MEN WHOCon


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Path Pictures presents in association with the UK

Film Council and BBC Films a Mission Pictures

Production produced in association with Inside

Track. A Danny Boyle film.

When a suitcase filled with cash falls out of the skystraight into the hands of seven year-old Damian, heis convinced the money is from God and wants tohelp the poor. His big brother Anthony has otherideas and wants to invest in property but will the

housing market hold steady? A heartwarming andhilarious journey where two boys attempt to spend aquarter of a million pounds in a week.

StarringJames Nesbitt,Daisy Donovan,Alex Etel,Lewis McGibbon

DirectorDanny Boyle

Screenplay

Frank Cottrell Boyce

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Path International

Phoenix Pictures and Momentum Pictures Present in

association with The Isle of Man and The UK Film

Council A David Kirschner production in associati on

with BBC Film. A Chris Noonan film.

As the most successful classic childrens author of alltime, this is the stor y of a single woman living i n her ownimaginary world, and her secret first love with thepublisher who brought her success. Beatrix Potter toldstories and drew pictures that have inspired generations

of children over the years, but the untold story of her lifewill captivate and delight a whole new audience.

StarringRenee Zellweger,Ewan McGregor,Emily Watson

Director

Chris Noonan

ScreenplayRichard Maltby

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Summit Entertainment

BBC Films presents in association with Renaissanc

Films a Free Range Films production

When a woman is widowed and comes to stay withher grown up children, a startling series of events aset in motion in this delicate and profound study ofageing and desire, a shocking yet tender definition ofamily life in the 21st Century.

StarringAnne Reid,Daniel Craig

Director

Roger Michell

ScreenplayHanif Kureishi

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BBC Films

STARE AT GOATSWinchester Capital Management in association with

BBC Films present a Smoke House Pictures/Paul Lister

Production

A reporter trying to lose himself in the romance of warafter his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains forwhen he meets a special forces agent who reveals theexistence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal isto end war as we know it. The founder of the unit hasgone missing and the trail leads to another psychic

soldier who has perverted the mission for his ownnefarious ends.

StarringGeorge Clooney,Ewan McGregor,Jeff Bridges,Kevin Spacey

Director

Grant Heslov

ScreenplayPeter Straughan based onthe novel The Men WhoStare at Goats by JonRonson

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Lionsgate

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PRESENTSPath 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 ofLondon during the Blitz, it was the Windmill Theatre;its doors always open to receive the boys homefrom leave, its famous nude tableaux guaranteeing fullhouses round the clock a permanent V sign to the

Luftwaffe. The camaraderie of the theatre was also atits height during the war a little world of big laughs,close friendshi ps and lost loves. And like the war, itcould not last forever.

StarringJudi Dench,Bob Hoskins,Christopher Guest,Will Young ,Kelly Reilly,Thelma Barlow

Director

Stephen Frears

ScreenplayMartin Sherman

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Path International

BBC Films and the Film Consortium with Baker

Street present in association with UK Film Council a

Take Partnerships P roduction of an Apocalypso

Picture. A film by Pawel Pawlikowski.

A long, hot summer creeps up on the emotions oftwo teenage girls, who live in the s ame Yorkshirevillage, but are a world apart. This new friendshipbecomes 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 anddarker path.

StarringNatalie Press,Emily Blunt,Paddy Considine

Director

Pawel Pawlikowski

ScreenplayPawel Pawlikowski incollaboration withMichael Wynne,based on the novel byHelen Cross

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BBC Films and Screen West Midlands in associatio

with Limelight present a Mirrorball Films product

This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddehas to put on the schools Nativity. Compet ing agathe posh neighbour ing school to get the best reviewshow in town, the stakes are raised when Paul boasthat his ex-gir lfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood producecoming to see his show. The only trouble is theyhavent spoken in years.

When teaching assistant Mr Poppy fuels his white liMaddens suddenly finds himself a local celebrity andthe centre of quarelling parents and over-excitedchildren in a bid for fame and fortune. Now Maddonly hope is to lure Jennifer and Hollywood to towthat everybodys Ch ristmas wishes come true.

StarringMartin Freeman,Ashley Jensen,

Jason Watkins,Marc Wootton

Screenplay/DirectorDebbie Isitt

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An Ecosse Films production for BBC Films and

WGBH/Boston in Association with Irish Screen

A love affair which broke all the rules: the passionaterelationship between Queen Victoria and her loyalHighland servant, John Brown.

StarringJudi Dench,Billy Connolly

Director

John Madden

ScreenplayJeremy Brock

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AND THE CITYNorth West Vision and Media and Digital

Departures present in association with Liverpool

Culture Company and BBC Films a Hurricane Films

production of a Terence Davies Fil m

From the original voice of the great British auteur,Terence Davies, comes a visual poem which dr awsupon the first 28 years of the directors life inLiverpool until he left in 1973. Cut it as if it werefiction, Davies says, with images which speak and alayered sound track of popular and classical music,voices, radio clips and a powerful, poignant voiceoverby Mr. Davies.

OF TIME AND THE CITY is a very per sonal portr aitof Liverpool, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs,the home of the writers bir th, where youth andinspiration weave his own story into the recenthistory of the city with fascinating found footage andcounterpointed sound.Fi

DirectorTerence Davies

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HanWay Films

BOLEYN GIRLUniversal 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 definingperiod in English history, this is an intimate study of arelationship between a man and two sisters: theyoungest replaces her sister in the mans affections,starting a chain of events that lead ultimately to her

death. The man i s Henr y VIII, King of England, and thetwo sisters Mar y and Anne Boleyn. Mary is the first tocatch the Kings eye, but is cast aside in favour of thedazzling Anne, whose passionate nature and relentlesspursuit of the crown propel her towards her doom.

StarringNatalie Portman,Scarlett Johansson,Eric Bana,David Morrissey,Kristin Scott Thomas

Director

Justin Chadwick

ScreenplayPeter Morgan, from thebook The Other BoleynGirl by Philippa Gregory

Sales Agents

Sony Pictures (US),Focus Features(International)

Path Pictures and BBC Films present in associatio

with the Arts Council of England, Lazennec and Le

Studio Canal+ a Holy Cows Films Production

Its Glasgow in 1973 and young James world ischanging hes growing up, but he doesnt want tobe like his Dad. He hates football for a star t, and hecant quite fit in with the local children. When a locteenage gang accept him, he meets Margaret Anne,and a tender relationship grows between them.

StarringTommy Flanagan,Mandy Matthews,William Eadie

Screenplay/Director

Lynne Ramsay

Sales AgentMGM/United Artists

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. Georges as the new artteacher, Barbara Covett senses a kindred spir it.However, Barbara is not the only one drawn to herSheba begins an illicit affair with a pupil and Barbarabecomes the keeper of her secret.

StarringJudi Dench,Cate Blanchett,Bill Nighy

Director

Richard Eyre

ScreenplayPatrick Marber

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Fox Searchlight

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ROADDreamWorks 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 ofthwarted passion and the s earch for fulfilmen t. A youngcouple find themselves torn between their own desiresand the pressure to conform, with explosiveconsequences.

StarringLeonardo DiCaprio,Kate Winslet

Director

Sam Mendes

ScreenplayJustin Haythe from thebook Revolutionary Roadby Ric hard Yates

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DreamWorks SKG

HBO presents in association with Picturehouse an

BBC Films, a Playtone picture, in association with

Street Productions

Set in the mid-Eighties, Starter for Ten is a comedyabout a working-class boy, struggling to make his wathe rarefied wor ld of an upper-class Br itish Univer sOn his way to achieving his lifelong ambition to appon the TV Quiz Show, University Challenge, he falls love with his beautiful team-mate and forms a plan

win her heart through his advanced general knowleskills.

Starter for Ten is a bitter-sweet comedy about loyalclass, falling in love and the difference betweenknowledge and wisdom.

StarringJames McAvoy,Rebecca Hall,Alice Eve,Lindsay Duncan,Charles Dance,Cathe rine Tate

Director

Tom Vaughan

ScreenplayDavid Nicholls

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HBO Enterprises

BBC Films and UK Film Council present in association

with Invicta Capital, Filmstiftung NRW and Perfect

Features a CrossDay/Egoli Tossell Producti on.

A Michael Caton-Jones film.

6 April 1994: a bloody genocide begins in Central Africa.In just one hundred spring days, one million RwandanTutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymenand a small African country was turned into a charnelhouse. The barbarity was beyond imagination, but

not beyond prevention. The UN was there, watching.Watching, but not acting.

At the heart of it all a British priest and his youngacolyte were forced to confront the depths of theirfaith, the limits of their courage and ultimately to make achoice: to remain with their people, or to run away.

StarringJohn Hur t,Hugh Dancy,Dominique Horwitz,Clare-Hope Ashitey

Director

Michael Caton-Jones

ScreenplayDavid Wolstencroft

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BBC Films

UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, Glasgow Film Office

and BBC Films in Association With Zoma Films And

Verve Pictures Present A Sigma / Zentropa

Entertainment5 Production. An Andrea Arnold film

Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watchesover a small part of the world, protecting the peopleliving their lives under her gaze. One day a man appearson her monitor, a man she thought she would never seeagain, a man she never wanted to see again. Now shehas no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

StarringKate Dickie,Tony Curran,Martin Compston,Natalie Press

Screenplay/DirectorAndrea Arnold

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Trust Films

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A Sixteen Films Production with Road Movies

Filmproduktion and Tornasol/Alta Films in a Brit ish,

German and Spanish Co-production. A Scottish

Screen and BBC Films Presentation with the

support of Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and

The Glasgow Film Office in association with

Diaphana Distribution, BIM Distribuzione,

ARD/Degeto Film and WDR

Fifteen-year old Liam is trying to make a better life

for himself and his mother, but when a local gangstertakes him under his wing Liam is soon in up to hisneck. As he is betrayed by all those around him, thebright spark of life within him is snuffed out.

StarringMartin Compston,Annmarie Fulton,William Ruane

Director

Ken Loach

ScreenplayPaul Laverty

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BBC Films, Capitol Films and the Film Council

present in association with Focus Features a Ruby

Films Production

From the moment they met, poets Sylvia Plath andTed Hughes found themselves wrapped in an allconsuming love, which became an intense andpassionate creative force. Yet the power of theirattraction was to be mirrored in the anguish of theireventual, unbearable parting.

Sylvia is a story of genius, ambition and a marriageblighted by tragedy.

StarringGwyneth Paltrow,Daniel Craig

Director

Christine Jeffs

ScreenplayJohn Brownlow

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BBC Films

West End Films, BBC Films and the UK Film Coun

present a Ruby Films production in association w

Nottinghill Films. A Stephen Frears film

Gemma Arterton plays Tamara, the ultimate moderreturning to her countr y home and her past. Onshy, ugly teenager, she reinvents herself as a smouldefemme fatale, kicking up a storm of envy, lust and gowherever she goes.

Adapted by Moira Buffini from Posy Simmonds grapnovel and Saturday Guardian strip, and a modern-dtake on the Hardy class ic, Far From the Madding Cr a story of love and lust in a r ural idyll.

StarringGemma Arterton,Dominic Cooper,Roger Allam,Bill Camp,Tamsin Greig

Director

Stephen Frears

ScreenplayMoira Buffini

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West End Films

Vertigo Films and UK Film Council, BBC Films and

Little Gaddesden Productions present in association

with Paradise FX Corp a Vertigo Films production

Carlys in love with charismatic boyfriend Jay and theirdance crew has just made it through to the finals of theUK Street Dance Championships. However, everythin gchanges when Jay walks out, breaking her heart andleaving the street dancers dreams in jeopardy. Salvationcomes 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 Academysdance studio in return for collaborating with her balletdancers. A clash of cultures ensues. Will the twogroups of dancers find a way to work together beforethe Street Dance Championship finals?

StreetDance is the UKs first ever British film to be shotentirely in 3D; a groundbreaking movie which is anexhilarating joyride through the UKs street dance scene.

StarringNichola Burley, RichardWinsor, Ukweli Roach,George Sampson,Charlotte Rampling,Diversity Live,Flawless Entertainment

Directors

Max Giwa andDania Pasquini

ScreenplayJane English

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Nicolas Winding Refn Presents A Nimbus Film / One

Eye Production in association with Blind Eye

Productions La Belle Alle Productions and

Scanbox film

1000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior ofsupernatural strength, has been held prisoner by theNorse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, OneEye slays his captor and together he and Are escape,beginning a journey into the heart of darkness.

On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vesselbut the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog thatclears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As thenew world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confronttheir terr ible and bloody fate, One Eye discover s histrue self .

StarringMads Mikkelsen,Maarten Stevenson,Gordon Brown,Andrew Flanagan,Gary Lewis,Gary McCormack,Alexander Morton,Jamie Sieves,Ewan Stewart,Matthew Zajac

DirectorNicolas Winding Refn

Screenplay

Nicolas Winding Refn,Roy Jacobsen

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Wild Bunch

BBC Films and Screen West Midlands and Slingshot

present in association with Path A Forward

Films/Slingshot production

Justine Fieldi ng is the gorgeous head girl of her grammarschool. All seems perfect when in-crowd hunk Alexisasks her out on a date. Except Alexis and his circle offriends arent quite as hip as they seem. Underneaththe cliques too cool for school veneer lurks a pack ofvicious peer pressure tormentors who tease anyone

they consider l osers.

Their main target is Darren Mullett. They bullied him todeath. But death is not going to stop Darren he takesmurderous revenge on his former classmates inincreasingly brutal, bloody and imaginative ways.

StarringAlex Pettyfer,April Pearson,Dimitri Leonidas,Calvin Dean,Tuppence Middleton

ScreenplayStephen Prentice

Director

Jon Wright

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1st FloorSolar House915 High RoadNorth FinchleyLondonN12 8QJUKTel: +44 20 8492 6300Fax: +44 20 8492 6301

Independent Film Company

32 Tavistock StreetLondonWC2E 7PBTel: +44 20 7257 8734Fax: +44 20 7240 [email protected]

Jinga Films22 Carnaby StreetLondonW1F 7DBUKTel: +44 20 7287 [email protected]

CA 90404 Santa MonicaUSATel: +1 310 449 9200Fax: +1 310 255 3770

MGM / United Artists

5 Kew RoadRichmondSurreyTW9 2PRUK

Tel: +44 20 8939 9300Fax: +44 20 8939 9384


c/o Walt Disney Studios MotionPictures500 South Buena Vista StreetBurbank, California 91521USATel: +1 818 560 1000

Missing In Action Films Ltd

c/o Film LondonSuite 6. 10, The Tea Building56 Shoreditch High Street

LondonE1 6JWUKTel: +44 7770 594 [email protected]

Myriad Pictures

3015 Main Street, Suite 400Santa Monica, CA 90405USATel : +1 310 279 4000Fax : +1 310 279 4001

Path International

6 Ramillies StreetLondonW1F 7TYUKTel: +44 20 7462 [email protected]

LondonW1F OBJTel: +44 20 7494 8024Fax: +44 20 7494 804


11 Francis StreetLondonSW1P 1DEUKTel: +44 20 7306 5155

Fax: +44 20 7306 8044info@protagonistpicturescom

Sony Pictures Releasing

International

10202 West Washington Blvd.Culver City, Ca 92232USATel: +1 310 244 2073

Summit Entertainment

77 Dean StreetLondonW1D 3SH

UKTel: +44 20 7494 1724Fax: +44 20 7494 1725

Studio Canal

1 Place du Spectacle92863 Issy-Les-Moulineaux,Cedex 9FranceTel:+ 33 1 71 35 10 55

TrustNordisk ApS

Filmbyen 122650 Hvidovre

DenmarkTel: +45 3686 8788Fax: +45 3677 [email protected]

566 Chiswick High RoadLondonW4 5YFUKTel: +44 20 3184 2500Fax: +44 20 3184 2501

Universal Pictures

International

Oxford House76 Oxford Street

LondonW1D 1BSUKTel: +44 20 7307 1300Fax: +44 20 7307 1301

The Weinstein Company

375 Greenwich StreetNew YorkNY NY 10013USATel: +1 212 941 3800Fax: +1 212 941 3949

West End Films

15 Greek Street2nd FloorLondon, W1D 4DPTel: +44 (0) 207 494 8300Fax: +44 (0) 207 494 [email protected]

Wild Bunch

231 Portobello RoadLondonW11 1LTUKTel: +44 20 7792 9791Fax: +44 20 7792 9871


Portland House4 Great Portland StreetLondonW1W 8QJUKTel: +44 20 7612 1080Fax: +44 20 7612 1081

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