OFFICIAL SELECTION (5th Edition)

11-12 December, 2017

PAWNS

Writer: David Barbeschi

 

Synopsis: A game of chess in 1973 reignites the two players' vivid memories of their fateful meeting during the visceral Great War of 1914.

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Beneath The Garden

Writer: Guy Harvey

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Synopsis: Linda loves trashy detective novels, and has decided to spend her mid-life crisis writing one. However, when writers block strikes she will have to drag inspiration out of real life, whether it's actually there or not.

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Cadeby

Writer: David Keogh

 

Synopsis: When Vikings invade the village of Cadeby a small band of desperately unprepared people must defend it or lose everything.

 

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Think Forward

Writer: David Keogh

 

Synopsis: A man with terminal cancer, an ex-army vicar and a homeless teenage girl, become unlikely allies when they stumble across some drug money. But a local Russian Crime Lord wants the money and the girl, back. 

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The Jim Crow Holocaust

Writer : Jacob Hayek

 

Synopsis: N/A

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Going Home

Writer : Nir Shelter

 

Synopsis: After an IDF soldier suspects a young Palestinian man on an Israeli bus of being a suicide bomber, he must choose between a risk to either the lives of the other passengers or a potentially innocent man.

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