Junkhearts (2011)
Director: Tinge Krishnan
Cast: Eddie Marsan, Tom Sturridge, Romala Garai and introducing Candese Reid
Frank (50s) is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine (30s) – smart and successful… on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette (17) a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.
Canyonland
Director: Daniel Kleinman
Eli, Archie and Bea: three kids from a dead-end desert town with soaring dreams of a brighter tomorrow… until a fatal accident tears their lives apart. Years later, fate conspires to hurl them back together, as Archie and Bea – now respectively a US Marshall and a bounty hunter – find themselves on the trail of the same fugitive: Eli. As the former friends become embroiled in a deadly triangle of pursuit, all three are forced to confront the shared darkness of their past – and a future they never imagined.
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