This is a fantasy epic romance about how Big Ben was named after a man called Ben who works inside the clock all the time. It is about his loneliness, him making a choice, sacrificing and struggling through love.
The story begins as a tale being told by a grandfather who works in an old clock shop to his grandson. The voice over takes you to the Victorian time where Ben meets a cleaning woman, Sofi, who comes to clean the Big Ben every week. They start a rather peculiar relationship through the window between them; him inside the clock and her outside. Their love finally becomes physical when the times comes where Ben can get out of the clock for one hour; the only hour of the year he can go outside when the clock changes to the winter time.
After their passionate experience, Sofi starts to want more and more from Ben and starts asking him to get out and live life with her. Ben faces the biggest choice he has to make - commitment for his lifetime work for the people, or his love.
A cautionary tale of three characters whose DIY projects have got out of hand. Each has bought a landlocked craft in varying degrees of dilapidation. Will they break out of the boat 'graveyard' or remain on land, their vessels an alternative shed; a place for dreaming with no destination necessary?
From October 2008 - April 2010, Leighton House Museum closed for extensive restoration and refurbishment. This was an important moment in the history of the house, reinstating the historic interiors to as close as they would have appeared before Frederic Lord Leighton's death in 1896.
The film-maker and photographer Frederique Cifuentes Morgan was commissioned to record the project from beginning to end. This film tells the story of this significant project and celebrates the work of the outstanding craft specialists who brought the work to completion.
COPIER is the story of teenager STACEY, a gifted inventor who finds a discarded photocopier and accidentally invents a 3D copier that can make exact copies of absolutely anything, including people.
She realises it might give her the solution to the tough business of growing up in a broken home.
Shot in a week by a lone British woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, this funny, moving Grey Gardens/Maysles Brothers style cinema verite doc contrasts the lives of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic expats (one British, one Dutch) living in a squat next to millionaire yachts, with the glamour of Cannes Film Festival.
Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeless during shooting and turns the camera on herself. Shows the dark side of British expat life in luxury sunny destinations.
Rift Valley, Kenya. Priscilla, 78, raises several of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Education is what she believes all of them should have, but a lack of money means not all can continue with it.
The story focuses on a young boy Craig who is living a life of confusion. Day to day activities can never be as simple as they should be, sooner or later he distances his friends, loses their trust and gets up to know good.
Surrounded by divers and swimmers, a little girl feels humiliated by her fear of jumping in the water. She escapes her reality by holding her breath to 'trip' within her own head. But when she sees two unexpected creatures swimming beautifully and effortlessly underwater, can she take the plunge into their magical world?
