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Shelley Warnaby, publicity and marketing exec

Featured product

Trainspotting (UK) Drama. Screening (official selection). Dir: Danny Boyle. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller. From the Shallow Grave team, a scathing black comedy, based on the cult novel by Irvine Welsh. Running time: 93 mins

Beautiful Thing (UK) Screening (Directors' Fortnight). Dir: Hettie Macdonald. Cast: Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson. Love, pain, insecurity, growing up — three teenagers edge towards adulthood in a story of sexual awakening. Running time: 90 mins

Brassed Off (UK) Comedy/drama. Post-production. Dir: Mark Herman. Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald. High emotion and musical mayhem as the Grimley Colliery Brass Band battle their way to the national finals. Running time: 108 mins

Indian Summer (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Nancy Meckler. Cast: Anthony Sher, Jason Flemyng. Faced with tragedy, a young dancer is determined to live life passionately and positively. Running time: 98 mins

Trojan Eddie (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Gillies Mackinnon. Cast: Stephen Rea, Richard Harris. Eddie is a small-town ex-con who discovers he has a talent for selling anything and everything. Running time: 105 mins

Nothing Personal (Ireland) Drama. Screening. Dir: Thaddeus O'Sullivan. Cast: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain. A searing drama, set in Belfast 1975. Over the course of 24 hours, tensions between Catholics and Protestants reach boiling point. Running time: 85 mins

The Disappearance of Finbar (UK/Eire/Sweden) Drama. Screening. Dir: Sue Clayton. Cast: Luke Griffin, Sean McGinley, Jonathan Rhys Myers. A disaffected young man becomes a local legend after mysteriously disappearing. Running time: 105 mins

Carla's Song (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Ken Loach. Cast: Robert Carlyle, Scott Glenn, Oyanka Cabezas. The story of the love affair between a Glaswegian bus driver and a Nicaraguan refugee.

The Woodlanders (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Phil Agland. Cast: Jodhi May, Rufus Sewell. Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in Dorset in the 1870s.

A Further Gesture (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Robert Dornhelm. Cast: Stephen Rea, Alfred Molina, Sean McGinley. An escaped IRA prisoner on the run in New York becomes caught up in a plot to carry out a political assassination.

True Blue (UK) Drama. Post-production. Dir: Ferdinand Fairfax. Cast: Johan Leysen, Dominic West. Based on the true story of the Oxford University boat race mutiny in 1987.

Babel/Living in Hell & Loving It (UK) Drama. In production. Dir: Les Blair. Cast: Baby Cele, Lionel Newton, Rapulana Seiphemo. Follows the tangled lives of six characters striving to succeed in the new “rainbow nation”.

Remember Me? (provisional title) (UK) Comedy. Post-production. Dir: Nick Hurran. Cast: Robert Lindsay, Rik Mayall, Imelda Staunton. A “typical” middle class family are drawn into a world where mayhem reigns, when the wife's ex-lover turns up.

Fever Pitch (UK) Comedy. In production. Dir: David Evans. Cast: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmel. A young man's obsession with Arsenal football club affects his job, love-life and dress sense.

Bent (UK) Drama. Pre-production. Dir: Sean Mathias. Cast: Ian McKellen. Two men struggle to retain their identity and survive the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp.

Sarajevo (UK) Drama. Pre-production. Dir: Michael Winterbottom. Cast: tba. The true-life story of war correspondent Michael Nicholson, who brings a young orphan girl back to England from war-torn Sarajevo.

Slab Boys (UK) Drama. Pre-production. Dir: John Byrne. Cast: tba. The boys in the paint-mixing room at Slobo and Co carpet factory apply themselves with awe-inspiring gusto to everything but their jobs.

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