On losing his job, Philip Brannigan finds himself unable to return home. His entire material world is collapsing. In his confused state, he adopts a religious sandwich board found in the park. And so begins his journey across the UK.
What at first seems like the aimless wandering of a confused man, gradually turns into a specific march towards Brannigan's childhood home. Brannigan experiences a number of encounters which are fuelled by the message on his board. 'The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth'. These are experiences that range from the sublime to the brutal, the mundane to the relevatory; experiences and encounters that reveal a changing external social landscape, and an evolving inner spiritual world.
Arriving on the east coast, Brannigan is faced with the reality that there is no home to go back to, no past in which to take shelter, and in his deepest moment of despair he discovers, through his interaction with the sea, a new strength and a new way of understanding his life.
In this experiential story, we are invited to immerse ourselves in the detail of Brannigan's experience and see the imagery of the everyday contemporary world in a mythological and mystical light.
Jessie wakes to hear footsteps inside her flat. Will she be able to confront them or will the monsters inside her head render her powerless? A powerful psychological drama about the nature of depression and what it means to be truly alive.
Trapped by unfinished homework on a Sunday afternoon, Kelly's bored and irritable. Sharing a bedroom with her elderly Grandmother is at the centre of Kelly's teenage discontent and the sleeping old woman is the target for her resentment.
Brick Lane is a British-Asian, Bollywood influenced comedy about the quest of two teenage boys out to impress the beautiful Nabeela at a local Bhangra Party - even at the expense of the notorious Bucksman. This short film explores the lives of Asian youth living in contemporary London.
When a wedding comes to a small town in the Indian countryside, it's a good opportunity for Mrs Bakshi to find eligible mates for her four daughters, but the smart and headstrong Lalita is determined to marry for love. Sparks fly when she meets the handsome American Will Darcy, but is it love or hate?
Gurinder Chadha directs this Bollywood-style re-telling of Jane Austen's classic tale of marriage and manners, transplanted to modern-day India, England and America, and complete with lavish musical spectacle.
In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) where we left her - in the arms of gorgeous human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But what happens after the happy ending?
Brothers Arne and Oystein have spent almost every day of their lives together. Alone since their mother's death, they've grown old in their childhood home in a small Norwegian valley. The filmmaker observes the stillness of their daily life, engaging the audience in a different tempo and emphasizing the role of the powerful landscape. As our understanding of the character grows, Brothers becomes an emotional exploration of their intense relationship and their lifelong difficulties in coping with the outside world.
What does Isky, a young Croatian immigrant, do when life seems just too black and white? A piece of pink bubblegum takes him on a journey to discover the power of his imagination.
Ricky (played by Ashley Walters, aka So Solid Crew's Asher D) is just out of a young offenders' institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom (Leon Black) against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit for tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis (Luke Fraser), hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother (Claire Perkins) and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?
Ireland 1971. The height of the space age is celebrated on TV but in the home of one young woman lies a guilty secret. The secret once revealed shows the lunar distances some will travel beyond love.
A Coen-esque black comedy set amidst the underbelly of the mini-cab demi-world in London. We follow a group of four drivers who inhabit a gritty cab office as they attempt to deal with a decline in business. We have Remi, who has been kicked out of his home by his wife and sleeps in his car boot at night. Danny, who prefers to engage his fists to settle disputes rather than his brainpower. Cola, who is tanked up with enough medication to kill a horse and Abdul, who sells anything from pirate DVD's to fetish wear from the back of his car. The minicab owner (Nikos) spends his time scuttling around in his dressing gown and slippers, fermenting his 'New Deal' strategy to turn around his economic fortune. Following an unscheduled visit from the local loan shark, he gives his four drivers an ultimatum. The two who bring the most money back to the office, keep their jobs. The other two can join the unemployment scrap-heap. Simple. This sets off a chain of events that stretches their characters, and ensures that the office will never be the same again.
