Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska star in writer-director Richard Ayoade’s updating of the famous Dostoevsky novella about a man who finds his life being usurped by his doppelganger.
Two middle-aged women (Linda & Jess) struggle to establish whom Bill (absent throughout, although his presence is very much felt) loves the most. The central concept is deceit; corresponding themes include: self-identity, ageing, commitment, and fate.
Compassion is about an old woman who confronts the man that has just broken into her home. When they sit down to discuss their respective stories it transpires that they have one thing in common: sorrow
Telling the story of a girl, through the eyes of her older, wiser self. Shown in a daze of colour, she falls into a nightmarish state of mind. And through an audio-visual platform the narrative blurs and distorts into a new reality - revealing a burning new picture of truth.
Some guys just can't handle working...
A British comedy set in the North, centered around two unemployed, and unemployable guys who find themselves in trouble after their drunken misadventures and accepting a briefcase of cash from a stranger.
Land is God tells the story of ageing farmer Jim who has lost his wife and has lost contact with his son Seamus. Helped by an unlikely catalyst, Jim is inspired to re-establish contact with his son before it is too late.
We follow a 9 year old boy in a post apocalyptic world trying to look after his sick mother. Can he stay alive? Remain a child? On a deeper level the film is inspired by the lives of children who grow up with mentally ill or addict parents.
Troubled Mary Ann has been tormented her whole life by dreams of a sinister figure called the Red King and his morbid fairytale kingdom. Following the death of her father, Mary Ann returns to her family home where she recalls the childhood stories of the Red King and Alice from ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ that her father once read to her. Haunting events and suppressed memories propel Mary Ann through the dark corridors of her parental home into the realms of her nightmares where she must finally confront the Red King and gain closure to her scarred past.
Nasreen, an immigrant office cleaner, who dreams of being a screen actor. Lacking the contacts or support to realize her ambitions, she instead creates extravagant characters for herself to play, imagining film crews and real people as extras, and heads off on an action adventure with the unlikeliest of results.
#1 and #2 are searching for their magnum opus, the one story that will bring them clarity, purpose. When they struggle to find inspiration in our world, they are ripped from it...but what happens when you lose control of the world you create? Forget the story. Meet the tellers.
In the first in a trilogy of short films that follows on from Time Stops Moving and Time Always Moving, Adam begins to reveal a time that involved a kiss and a lie- a time he tries to forget.
