Kieran struggles to rejoin life after waking from a four year coma. Detached, he works the graveyard shift for a bank call centre, life happens to him. Nightly he slips into apathy until he receives a wrong number call for The Samaritans and an opportunity to save a stranger.
Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same time, in the same place Stay the Same is an experimental documentary about our relationship with time and the desire to capture experience.
A unique take on the world's most performed play The Cherry Orchard. The film explores Chekhov's play and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author creating a new space between narrative and documentary.
Six actors are brought together in a country house over one weekend to put on an improvised version of The Cherry Orchard. They are pleased to see each other again and begin to explore the house and talk about old times. They chat about the play and what they feel needs to be done during this weekend but as they cast themselves as suitable characters cracks begin to appear. They discuss the dramatic themes - longing for things past, decay, regret, loss, spite and jealousy which slowly and imperceptibly begin to take over the actors and their characters. Little do the actors realise they will be consumed by the play both as the characters, over which they argue, bitch, make alliances and betrayals, and as themselves, loving, jealous, spiteful, bullying human beings. What begins as a light-hearted weekend of theatrical fun gradually turns into a self-doubting and destructive scenario.
As they gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance will they ever be able to be friends again?
Jess and Jason meet at the bus station of a seaside town, seeing each other in daylight for the first time. What at first seemed exciting, forbidden, and divinely careless soon threatens to be a regretful experience for both. This is not how things were meant to be.
The experimental student film ’The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint’ examines the fractured memory of Betty, an elderly woman whose confused mind provides the framework for a journey through the vivid landscape of her past as she struggles to make sense of the symbolic stages of her life.
Blurring the line between reality and memory, featuring ensemble performance, dance and song, the film seeks to explore the emotional fabric of which we are made. 'Befuddled' is ultimately a poetic reflection of the life, loves and losses in one woman’s fading world.
After Mas is a story of love that flourishes under the cover of darkness during the festival of J'ouvert on the streets of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. But in the cold light of day, can these young lovers from very different backgrounds stay true to their desires?
A ravaged London is in the midst of a civil war in which the battle-line isn’t race or religion: it’s gender. And the resource at stake isn’t land or wealth: it’s reproduction.
French cook Jacques Fournier arrives in London convinced that renown and irascible British chef Victor is the father he never knew. Having found work in Victor's kitchen, Jacques sets up home and soon happens on his eccentric neighbours including the waif-like Stella who shows little interest in Jacques and even less in eating food.
Attracted to Stella, Jacques plans to tempt her with his fine cuisine but is caught red handed stealing the necessary costly ingredients from the restaurant. When confronted by a furious Victor, Jacques is forced to confess his true motive for coming to London. But Victor laughs off the assertion that he might be Jacques’ father and shows him the door.
His world shattered, Jacques returns home only to discover Stella unconscious following a binge on junk food, booze and pills. Recognising a fellow lost soul, Jacques refuses to leave Stella’s side until she consumes something. He sets them both a challenge: for him to prepare her a feast so delicate and alluring that she cannot resist. But in the mental struggle that follows, Stella’s eating disorder may prove just too much for love to overcome and for Jacques and Stella’s dysfunctional romance to survive.
When devout religious teenager Diamond Boaz Phillips is accused of murdering an expert in the occult and sent to prison due to credible evidence, his mother Miss Phillips has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. Her quest to prove his innocence will lead her into a world of black magic and time traveling spirits.
Narrated by the late great John Ricketts, the world's best storyteller.
A film following the life story of a Barnardo’s boy, through his teens as a butcher and his twenties as an adventurous scooter driving Mod.
''You can't be happy all the time''.
Enigmatically narrated / stunningly beautiful cinematography.
Maria, a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60s, parts with her husband who is taken to the Colonial War in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of deep tradition she tries to find her voice, shattering primitive taboos to cope with her loss.
