A BANQUET is the much anticipated feature debut from Ruth Paxton. A visually arresting slowburning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family possessed by a daughter's illness when she stops eating, exploiting the strains and the love between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Widowed mother Holly (Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Discovery - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult
An ugly moment in a Berlin bar knocks Yasmina from her usual path and launches us into a series of encounters in a precarious world, beyond the neon and the billboards.
Inspired by Schnitzler’s 19th century play, Reigen (La Ronde), ATOMEN careers through the everyday lives and dilemmas of our characters, laying bare the alienation and disenfranchisement, and at the same time the longing for love and connection, even if the pursuit of this almost always fails…..
In this world, this world of late capitalism, where faith is lost, and truth is lost, and all are told to only care for themselves, how do people root themselves, find meaning, find enough hope to make life worth living – a life, as Freud said, of ordinary unhappiness, rather than extraordinary alienation?
Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.
A caustic online streamer’s anarchic behaviour triggers a non-stop nightmare.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Midnight Madness - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult
Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Thrill
In an art therapy session, a young veteran confronts his PTSD through mask-making.Shot on Super 16mm with hand-painted animation and microscopic cinematography- the film communicates via the same non-verbal pathways that can allow those who suffer from PTSD to speak.
A mysterious club brings together a haunted soldier and a seemingly reckless woman. As a deadly challenge unfolds, it brings a poignant intensity to their brief relationship, to live as fully as possible while they can.
A sequel to the hit UK film based on a true story about a group of Cornish fishermen who were signed by Universal Records and achieved a Top 10 hit with their debut album of traditional sea shanties. Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues” a year later the world's oldest ‘buoy band’ struggle to navigate the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame. FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS: ONE AND ALL follows the celebrated shanty singers through the highs and lows as lifelong friendships are put to the test and they battle the dreaded ‘curse of the second album’.
Set against the backdrop of the Northern Irish coast, HOMEBIRD explores the relationship between an emotionally reclusive father struggling to re-connect with his estranged gay son, during a night at the seafront amusements.
HOMEBOUND follows Holly, a young woman who travels with her new husband to meet his estranged family, only to find his ex-wife is missing and the children behaving in strange ways.
Official Selection Fantastic Fest 2021 - World premiere
