Who knows where ideas come from? You or me? Or THEM? The Muses are angry and they want their ideas back! This is a story of thieving and reappropriation, staged on a mythological platform.
When Neil Platt is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 33, he makes the unusual decision to document his final months, not just in a blog (which he painstakingly dictates via frustratingly inaccurate speech recognition software) but by inviting a film crew into the home he shares with his tireless wife Louise and toddler son Oscar. The result is a heartbreaking, funny and tender portrayal of incredible fortitude and love (EIFF).
Awkward 11-year-old Nesma is at odds with the world around her since she began caring for her father’s pigeons after his death. Being forced to get rid of the birds by her mother today will see Nesma face an even bigger challenge as she enters womanhood.
Nicky, a young woman travelling alone to meet her band mates, through the back roads of the British countryside, escapes the clutches of a dangerous stranger. Her road trip soon turns from bad to worse as she finds herself running for her life as she attempts to escape a serial killer and the hordes of predatory locals in the area known as The Highway of Tears.
Joseph is terminally ill. He spends his days sitting in front of the television, watching as each show comes and goes until one morning something catches his eye. Inspired, Joseph departs from his daily routine to create something he hopes to pass on to his family.
In a tick box society where identity has become a commodity, this new dance film by Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam sees them take a humorous look at how they as artists are influenced by the expectations and definitions placed upon them.
The magical journey to the world of puppets with wonderful participating of great master Meschke and Irene Jacob.
Michael Meschke is one of the the greatest living marionette masters in the world. His marionette masterpieces are the pretext to delve into his own life and the stories behind his numerous international creations. The life of an incredible, complex human being. Born in Poland to German parents, Meshke has lived in France and Sweden. By a prophet German poet, Jochen Klepper, he was told as a little boy that he would become a puppet master. Now he is 80 years old, and while sitting in the cellars of a Stockholm Museum, beside collections that have travelled on many world adventures, he is dreaming. The Marionetteatern has been the cultural ambassador of Sweden for over 60 years. It introduced the art of puppetry to modern Europe and brought back into the universal dimension characters like Antigone, Don Quixote, Odysseus, Faust, so significant to human nature and in fact symbolising the struggle of virtue against vice. Michael Meschke is the man behind this Theatre, a world master of Puppetry.
At the age of 21, Sarah Begum, a British born Bengali girl realised the ambition of a lifetime when she went to live with the Huaorani tribe deep in the Amazon Rainforest and immersed herself in their way of life. This is the film she made of her extraordinary journey.
Commissioned by LUX and Collective Gallery.
'Fib' is the Pictish name for the contemporary Scottish region known as The Kingdom of 'Fife'. It also means a trivial or white lie.
Filmed at locations in Fife, the film focuses on two census takers and considers the resulting information and actions as ‘factish’.
