Inhabiting a bizarrely unusual body (the body she loves), and navigating daily discrimination, Ella searches the world for another like her – "Is There Anybody Out There?"
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Hot Docs 2023 - Special Presentation
Official Selection Krakow Film Festival 2023 - International Documentary Competition
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2023
Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?
World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2023
Sundance London 2024
A heated argument occurs when Abdullah declares he is joining the British Military to the shock of his pacifist father Omar and anger of his fundamentalist older brother Moh. As their debate unfurls past resentments and revelations rise to the surface, boiling to a point where they can no longer contain themselves. The war on terror, the 7/7 bombings, the loss of the son's mother and the allegiance to either Islam or Britain. What will unfold. Family, Duty or Honour?
The isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia, is the site for a reflection on the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes. Shot over several years, Let Us Flow uses inovative audio-visual techniques to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community and offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men.
In a verdant mountainous region of Georgia, tradition and modernity intertwine. Carrying on the traditions of their ancestors, the men in the film race on horseback down mountains and across wide, expansive valleys in a performance of masculinity. The filmmaker states, “As the film progresses it becomes a film about distance: the twenty meter distance the Tushetian women have to observe from their shrines, the distance between me and my protagonists, between languages and translation.” Medoidze is never seen in front of the camera, made visible only through her voice. Yet even with this distance between her and her subjects the film, as shot from her perspective, makes for a truly immersive piece of observational filmmaking.
An immersive audio-driven film that asks you to listen. Why is it that BPoC communities in the UK do not feel like they belong in the outdoors?
The film is based on audio interviews taken from a group of BPoC women outdoor activists who are changing the story.
When a disabled, unemployed mechanic is prejudicially denied the chance of applying for a job he’s best fit for, we’re taken on a musical journey of 80's Disco & Ballroom, through his anger and frustration (alongside his disabled peers) calling for access and change.
A mixed media video art and music piece combining visual art, graphic design, music, poetry, film and field recordings. The piece is an examination of a traumatic event documented in real time through creative expression.
In our wealthiest nations, old age homelessness is on the rise and so is the number of pensioners using foodbanks. Is Old Age Poverty an unstoppable global disaster? With a unique mix of comedy animation, interviews with experts and personal stories from all around the world, YOUR HUNDRED-YEAR LIFE explains how we got ourselves into this mess and what we can do to get out of it.
In a future world under strict population control, a strong, independent, fertile Kate is drafted to have a baby. Unlike her best friend Jessica, Kate doesn’t want to be a mother and suffers. Her personal choice is taken away at each step and when she wants to gift her opportunity away to Jessica, she cannot because her fertility is a commodity and the presumed fairness of a lottery is society’s way of maintaining equality and exerting control. While the two best friends are ripped apart, unable to follow their dreams, they succeed in awakening the audience and reveal the faults in the system.
THE DRAFT is meant to evoke a debate around the lacking freedom of choice women still face today. A woman should have complete control over her body but we can be scorned for not doing what others - and society - consider to be our duty, our purpose as women. This film is about what can happen when our right to be childfree by choice is taken from us. Equality demands that we as women and men respect each other’s individuality and choices, whether that’s becoming a mother or not.
El Sentir de las Montañas (The Feel of the Mountains) is an ethnographic documentary work made with members of the Latin American community in London. The film is divided into three chapters, through which we meet different people. Trying to understand more about some of the different situations that Latin American people have experienced or are experiencing in London, the film is an exploration of arrival, community and healing. Through the work we hear the story of an arrest, we meet a volleyball playing community and take a look at an alternative therapy.
'Escape to Shanghai' follows Doris’s epic journey from Germany to safety in Shanghai, on the other side of the world making a temporary home and a new life cut off from the horrors playing out in German-occupied Europe.
