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the second feature by Alexis dos Santos:
produced by The Bureau Film Company

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Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers and move on from recent heartbreak. Their stories interweave as they take up residence in a vibrant, sprawling squat in the melting-pot of London's hip East End.

Learning his father is an estate agent, Axl pretends to be a student looking for an apartment. But the more he discovers about his father's new life, the more difficult it is for Axl to admit who he really is. Meanwhile, Vera embarks on a tentative romance with a charasmatic stranger. To protect herself from further heartbreak, she insists on total anonymity - but becomes the victim of her own strategy when she finds herself falling in love.

Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young daughter, Amy. When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent, Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the man in front of a captive audience.

Things spiral out of control when Joey wakes up the next day and is arrested for Grievous Bodily Harm. His landlord is in hospital with a fractured skull and the police have witnesses as to Joey’s abusive threats. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a former friend who has recently walked back into his life. Together at military school 25 years earlier, Frank is keen that he and Joey get reacquainted and offers to take him into the home he shares with his much-younger girlfriend Colette. But as Joey finds out, friendship is the last thing on Frank’s mind.

Michael Powell Award - EIFF
Best UK Feature - Raindance
Hitchcock d'Or - Dinard Festival of British Film
World Soundtrack Discovery Award 2009 (Lorne Balfe)
Best Writing in Film (Justin Molotnikov), Best Acting in Film (Stephen McCole)
- BAFTA Scotland Awards
Best Feature Length Drama - Celtic Media Festival
Best New Director - Richard Attenborough Film Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009
Abandon Normal Devices Festival of New Cinema, Liverpool 2009
Cambridge Film Festival 2009
Dinard Festival of British Film 2009
New British Film Festival, Moscow 2009
Raindance Film Festival, London 2009
Leeds International Film Festival 2009
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010
Celtic Media Festival, Northern Ireland 2010
Cinema Mundi, Brno 2010
Bradford Film Festival, 2010
South by South West, Texas 2010