This film is about the embarrassingly funny and all too familiar perils of modern urban relationships. A celebration of sex, deceit, therapy and true love.
The West Wittering Affair is a unique romantic- sex-comedy of errors about four confused love-hungry Londoners for whom life can never be the same after one crazy weekend away in the country.
From bed-swapping to sadistic revenge, the unforgetable weekend has jolting repercussions. Revelation follows revelation as the four try to sort out the mess they have made. When things spiral out of control, It is ultimately a two-year-old girl who brings them to their senses.
Both endearing and hilarious, the plot twists, turns and fizzes along with brilliant performances from and up-and-coming British ensemble cast.
This life affirming story touches all the right nerves.
The West Wittering Affair is the debut feature from The Scheinmann Brothers. It is an astonishing and original work of instinctive story-telling which beautifully articulates the emotional coming of age of the film-makers own generation
Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars, on the eve of the Japanese invasion.
Fatima is a young British Muslim woman of Moroccan origin who ran away from her family and now shares a house with two girlfriends in Tottenham. One morning she receives a call from someone claiming to be from the police. He tells her that there will be a visit later that day to her house to interview her but refuses to tell her why. Set in London during the emotional and political aftermath of the recent war and occupation of Iraq, The Winter Sun is a Lie is a quirky drama about lies and liars.
Winner of Best Feature Film at the 2005 0110 Digital Film Festival.
Three highly acclaimed directors join together to direct three interwoven stories that take place during a journey from Central Europe to Rome. The charcters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice.
One older businessman finds solace and a new insight into life when he is forced to wait at the train station due to bad weather. A young man is reminded of life's obligations but is also introduced to love. And three Scottish youths on their way to the football match of their dreams are forced to open their eyes and see the bigger picture.
One single train journey sparks many changes for many people. This is a film about priviledge and exclusion, and the reality of the value of just one 'Ticket'.
In the great tradition of child fantasy stories such as The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland , Terry Gilliam takes us on a wild adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel.
Welcome to the world of Jeliza-Rose, the young heroine and narrator of Tideland.
What has brought Jeliza-Rose from Los Angeles to a rural Texan farmhouse? And why is her former rockabilly guitarist father not talking to her anymore? And who is making all that noise in the attic?
Jeliza-Rose drifts from the harsh reality of her childhood and escapes into the fantasies of her own active imagination. This is a fantasy world to rival all others; here fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, monster sharks swim down railroad tracks, and disembodied Barbie heads share in her adventures.
Tideland is as optimistic as it is surreal, as humourous as it is suspenseful - a celebration of the power of a child's imagination.
Tina is getting ready for a blind date. Her friend Lily is waiting for the guy in the designated bar, to tell Tina whether he is worth coming for. Tina ends up being driven to the date by her ex, Leo. As Leo tries to get back together and they fight, Lily fancies the date herself and pretends to be Tina. In the end they all find each other at one table. But who will leave with whom?
They have been hangouts for bohemians, bikers and office boys, but the classic London cafe - steamy, formica-clad, with wooden banquettes and booths - is fast disappearing as rents rise and tastes change. These three films follow four cafes on the verge of closure: They are worlds of their own, a form of social club for the regulars who have been going there for twenty years, and an imtegral part of London culture that may not be around much longer.
A quiet lament of an illegal alien's private grief over a shattered dream. The film intends to personify one of the many familiar yet anonymous Chinese faces one comes across when passing through London's China Town, and his humble dreams and desires - things which are taken for granted as basic necessities among people from the West.
Award-winning director and cinematographer, Thomas Riedelsheimer (Rivers and Tides, Andy Goldsworthy working with Time) takes us on an journey through a universe of sound with percussionist Evelyn Glennie. They map a world of the senses – images and sounds. Hearing images, seeing sound. With Evelyn, we experience sound as palpable and rhythm as the basis of everything that is. Rhythm is movement, flow, change, renewal - and repetition. Everything oscillates and vibrates - from the bridge of steel and concrete to the energy shells around an atom. We recognise and experience our world through oscillations, through rhythms - even colours oscillate at different frequencies. Everything vibrates, everything 'speaks' - a universe of sound. Renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who lost her hearing aged eight years old, lives in this universe in a way that almost no-one else does. Together with her, this film dives into the world of sound and rhythms - into the world of our origins. At the top of her profession with many works written especially for her, Evelyn now improvises for this film with Fred Frith, master of the avant-garde. The result of their collaboration forms the backbone of the film as Evelyn travels the world, playing with diverse musicians and sending back postcards from her world of sound.
Flipping back and forth between the 18th century and the hapless efforts of the 21st century filmakers, Tristram Shandy is the making of a movie adapted from the notoriously unfilmable English literature masterpiece, The Life and Opinons of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne.
The story begins with Tristram Shandy (Steve Coogan) narrating his life story as he sees it. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humour, Shandy's warped childhood tales are constantly interrupted by his family and household, inadvertently revealing far more about himself than any conventional autobiography.
At the dramatic moment of Tristram's birth, the 1st Assistant Director calls cut, marking the end of a filming day on the set of Tristram Shandy. We then see Steve Coogan, the other actors and crew through the course of a chaotic evening on set. Steve Coogan's wife arrives with their six month old baby, a journalist is chasing him about a scandalous story, his agent has arrived with a load of Hollywood scripts and the film financiers are threatening to pull the plug.
A clever, post-modern take on the construction of a film, from an intricate, hilariously complex autobiographical novel.
All is not right underground. The tube is in chaos yet no one knows why. What's more the mice are disappearing. Who is the dark figure taking a fervent interest in both? Meanwhile deep below something is trembling.
