RIBOLLITA

writer/director Oscar Albert

A bohemian family of cooks come together at their country home to cook a celebratory meal in honour of their late matriarchal grandmother - a famous TV chef. But when the youngest child runs away from all the drunken revelry the family’s eccentric and codependent lifestyle comes under scrutiny.

RIBOLLITA is the feature directorial debut for Oscar Albert, a graduate of London Film School and finalist in the PYD Young Directors of the Year 2019.

Confirmed Cast - Izuka Hoyle, Rhian Teasdale

Co-Producer: Alexis Osborn

Executive Producer: Alan Maher

Development supported by Ffilm Cymru Wales

Shooting: Spring 2024

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THE WEEK DAD CAME HOME

writer/director Isabella Wing-Davey

Helene’s family reassemble in Northern France when her dying father comes home from hospital for the last time, but a secret is uncovered which threatens their final days together.

THE WEEK DAD CAME HOME will be Isabella Wing-Davey's feature debut. With an MFA from NYU Grad Film, Isabella is an alumna of talent development labs including BIFA Springboard, Torino Film Lab, Film Independent and New York Film Festival Artist Academy. She directed a multi-award-winning short film, Stand Still, which was funded by BFI/FIlm London and premiered at BFI London Film Festival. She also wrote and directed the Sloan Foundation/HFPA funded short film about women in science in Victorian England, The Rain Collector, starring Emmy-nominee Celine Buckens.

Co-producer: Isabel Freer

Shooting: Early 2024

NINE LIVES

writer/director Siri Rødnes

Based on the 1969 Nebula Award nominated novella by celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin, Nine Lives is the story of humankind coming into contact with its own future. Part sweeping Science Fiction of an ill-fated mining operation on a distant moon, part intimate portrait of friendship; it is a bold and subversive film about discovering what it is to be human in a remote and lonely corner of the universe.

Set within our children’s lifetime, it is a poignant character-driven exploration of how we live now; how we treat “others”; the polarising effects of new technology on society and the individual; as well as a timeless and hopeful story of humanity’s endless ability to adapt.

Scottish writer/director Siri Rødnes is in post on her first feature Follow Me, a Psychological Thriller starring Connie Nielsen. An NFTS Directing graduate, Siri's short films include the BAFTA Scotland and Berlinale Crystal Bear nominated Take Your Partners.

Co-producers: Zoe Fowlie, Paula McGann

Development supported by Creative Scotland

THE JOY

writer/director Simon Ward

After the failed 1916 Easter Rising, Ireland is aggressively purged of all dissent by Britain’s occupying colonial forces. Radicalised by the violence, fear and oppression enveloping her young world, seventeen-year-old Maggie enlists in Cumann na mBan, a uniquely all-female revolutionary paramilitary. She finds strength and purpose fighting through both the War of Independence and subsequent bloody Civil War. As a soldier, she fights for a united Ireland. As a woman, she fights for a place to belong in a new Ireland. Through war and imprisonment, bereavement and motherhood, Maggie fights to become; to find and assert her identity. To render herself fully visible as a human being.

By 1950, Ireland has achieved the political freedom from Britain which Maggie fought for. But the country has largely forgotten the sacrifices of women like her in delivering this. Ensnared by the ghosts of her past, Maggie finds herself, alone, adrift and estranged from the world around her. Maggie must once again fight for a place to belong.

Born and raised in Dublin, writer/director Simon Ward has had a number of his feature scripts under option and directed 5 short films to date. He is also programmed cinemas for the ICA and Independent Cinema Office where he remains a Trustee.

Co-producer: Alan Maher

THE END OF HISTORY

writer/director Tupaq Felber

A man disappears, maybe it was the newborn baby which finally broke him, maybe it was his colleague's suicide. His brother and close friends embark across the country to bring him back, only to find he might be running away from something even more lethal than parental responsibility. Why only one of them will survive being murdered this weekend might not be clear, but isn't that true of most things these days?

Commercial and award-winning short film director Tupaq Felber's debut feature TIDES was selected for BFI London Film Festival and released in the UK by AX1 Entertainment.

Confirmed Cast: Paul Kaye

Co-producer: Jesse Romain