Years ago, Max asked Simon out, who turned him down. The two have remained friends, and get on the same train after seeing mates from university. Their conversation reveals that Max has gone onto have a thriving career and adopt children with his husband, whereas Simon is single and less successful.
Eventually, Simon confesses his belief that if he had said yes, all those years ago, he and Max would still be together now. Max admits that he thinks the same, and asks Simon why he didn’t say yes. Simon replies that he was scared by how Max made him feel, but kept this a secret, assuming someone as confident as Max would never understand. Max says that he was also scared, but that that was why he asked Simon out, reasoning “what’s the point of dating someone who doesn’t give you butterflies?”
A shocked Simon is left pondering this as Max gets off at his station. The train leaves and enters a tunnel, plunging Simon – now alone – into darkness.
Amy reluctantly returns home to the windy clifftop in North Cornwall where she grew up, after a break-up with her partner Jess has left her homeless. She hopes her mum, Sue, will be pleasantly surprised at the chance for them to reconnect.
But Sue isn't good with surprises, and has other things on her mind. She is preparing to plant a bare root hedge, her final act of resistance against the second home development that will surround her home, concreting over her memories and erasing her past.
They start early: digging in the hedge is backbreaking work.
When Amy finally manages to tell Sue about her loss, Sue is lost for words. They doggedly continue planting, gradually finding a rhythm together in the silence.
As night falls, and exhaustion sets in, Sue returns to the house, and Amy is left in the field, digging the last trench for the remaining plants. Alone, they each find a way to reach out across the silence, the years of separation, and their losses, towards each other.
Official Selection Encounters Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2025
An experimental film conveying a positive lived experience of being trans, as a counterpoint to the overwhelmingly negative narratives in the current discourse. This glimmer of hope and optimism, performed by trans artist Toby Vincer, devised with director Sharon Burrell, meditates on Toby’s relationship with their body, the Divine Feminine, and the natural environment.
Cherry's neglectful husband departs after placing a secret wager to test her fidelity. Along with her sharp-witted maid, Hero, Cherry must fend off a dangerously seductive visitor: Manfred.
Official Selection Venice Critics' Week 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Closing Night Gala
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026
Following Argiro, a bad-ass farmer, and her best friend, Anneta, a manicurist and local “It” girl, who grew up in the same rural village in northern Greece. As Anneta prepares to leave for the city with her lame cop boyfriend, Argiro entices her to embark on one last adventure - a hike to the legendary, mystical bear cave that has fascinated them since childhood. What begins as a nostalgic journey soon spirals into a tense exploration of their friendship, as deep-seated secrets and betrayals surface. Confronted with their true feelings, Argiro and Anneta must decide whether they end up together.
Official Selection Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) 2025 - World premiere
A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Winner - Short Film Competition
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025
Quinn, a sexually confident young woman of mixed-race ancestry, struggles to find her footing in London after her mother’s death. On impulse, she decides to travel to South Africa in search of her estranged father, but when she fails to find him, her journey begins to reflect the reckless patterns of her London life. An unexpected turn leads to a chance encounter with charismatic South African, Harley. Offering her a ride into the outback, Harley pulls Quinn into an adventure that sweeps them from Cape Town’s electric nightlife to the vast, untamed rural heartlands, to confront both external dangers and the deep-seated prejudices of the locals. As they navigate the twists and tensions of the journey, Quinn and Harley form an unbreakable bond, realising that the answers they were searching for had been within them all along. A tale of self-discovery, resilience, and the unexpected roads that lead us home.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2026
A short documentary film about how the LGBTQIA+ community has been reinventing funerary and remembrance rituals to better support and reflect the way people live in the community.
Jenny reveals to her fiancé, Scott, that she's fallen in love with Cat, her best friend. Jenny can't decide who she wants to be with, so she lets Scott and Cat choose for her.
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a hand raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school, but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma.
A beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Three women find their relationships are changed forever when they put pen to paper.
This sexy dramedy is a comforting embrace during turbulent times. We follow the adventures of three women in the English coastal town of Folkestone, as they express their secret desires through their writing. The story celebrates the power of Mother Nature, and female friendship, as the women turn fantasy into reality.
Content warning: sexually explicit language.
On the windswept Yorkshire moors, emo teen Helena navigates a turbulent journey of love.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026
