When 11 year old Aimee gets separated from her mother she begins a long and turbulent journey through the UK's social care system. As she is moved from one home to another her emotional roller-coaster of a life shows just how too many opinions can cause such harm.
During a 50,000km road tour of Australia the film makers encountered 89 year-old Helmut. Living alone and remotely for nearly 40 years in a hand-built house on the bed of one of the largest rivers in the country, he was wearing only a loin cloth when they arrived unannounced.
Helmut's House is a portrait of an original character leading a truly unconventional lifestyle in the wilderness, and a rare document of a unique encounter with a remarkable human being.
The first ever British kids' movie to be filmed in 3D, Horrid Henry: The Movie stars Anjelica Huston as Henry's terrifying teacher Miss Battle-Axe, alongside Rebecca Front as Henry's headmistress Ms Oddbod, Richard E Grant as a rival headmaster, and Parminder Nagra as Miss Lovely.
The film sees Horrid Henry, Lord High Majesty of the Purple Hand Gang, waging his ever constant battle against the tyranny of adults, only this time it seems the adults really are out to get him!
The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster's origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of his emblematic projects.
It's the middle of the summer holidays and precocious, ten year old Oscar takes radical action to rid himself of intellectually inferior, younger brother, Jacob.
It is the summer of 1976, the hottest summer in living memory, and keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on a school musical of her version of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. To get the kids engaged, she weaves the play around their favourite pop songs, using the hits of the day by artists as diverse as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra. The music is sung and performed by a fresh and enormously talented group of young actors led by rising star Aneurin Barnard. The result is a film that is in turn touching, life affirming, funny and nostalgic, and a love letter to the music of the period.
Luka (27) is a carer for his mother. When she gives him a day off he feels the need to leave out his entire youth in one day, helped by two significant encounters.
17-year-old Zoe succeeds in juggling her GCSE retakes, supermarket job and commitments to her friends until her boyfriend and best mate betray her. Is this the wake-up call she needs? It's a dark moment for Zoe, faced with sacrificing the life she knows for the life she really wants.
Molly (8), an only child of a Pakistani father and British mother, watches her parents' marriage disintegrate before her eyes as mum embarks on a romantic relationship with another man.
In a disturbing dream Molly fantasises with killing mum's lover to put an end to the extramarital affair, subconsciously wishing that putting mum's lover out of the picture will bring things back to normal in her family.
But things are far from normal when mum disappears after a heated argument with dad.
An ominous curse materializes to change Rita's life forever. Hunted down, flung across borders, and plunged into a world of torture, imprisonment and sexual exploitation, Rita battles desperately to overcome her predicament.
A team is at work dissecting what appears to be an ordinary bush. The examination is carried out with such conviction and reverence, towards something which is seemingly so mundane, that the whole process appears quite absurd.
Filmed during a Gulbenkian Galapagos Artists Residency.
