'Let us say that a fly has fallen into a spiderweb and the spider has sucked her dry. This is a fact of the universe and such a fact cannot be forgotten. If such a fact should be forgotten, it would create a blemish in the universe. Do you understand me or not?' - I B Singer.
For the last 800 years many monks, nuns and prisoners dreamed of escaping the Abbey.
A group of students are looking for the perfect place to hold the ultimate Halloween party. They gain access to an old abandoned asylum and as the party gets started, it appears that they are not alone.
Game Keepers Without Game is a film set within the structure of a feature length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Play La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream), it follows the narrative of the return of a child who had been banished from the family home. Translated into contemporary British life, the film is comprised of a mixture of acted scenes where nothing and nobody touches each other. Still shots of objects become characters and a drumming sound track builds up and breaks down like the building of a house.
A little girl journeys into a world of imagination when she discovers that her pet rabbit is dead. She conjures up a macabre fantasy about what death may be like and in doing so, is able to say goodbye.
Keith, an ordinary gaming geek who works the graveyard shift at the only all-night convenience shop in the city, has grown used to the occasional disruption to the monotony when he exterminates zombies that wander nightly into the shop.
One night Keith is distracted by Suzi, and must convince her that the walking undead really do inhabit the city after she witnesses a zombie killing.
They are thrown together in an adventure riddled with strange denizens of the night as they cross the infested city. But they are followed by an ancient priest-magician, mistakenly raised as a zombie by a bumbling necromancer. Suzi becomes enchanted with the Dark Lord's Gothic looks and is drawn into a sinister enchantment as he seeks to unravel the interwoven spells that have enslaved him to undead existence.
Despite his jealousy, Keith vows to protect Suzi with his life. Suzi is torn between Keith's devotion and her unnatural attraction to the Dark Lord. A final showdown between the Dark Lord and Keith will determine the fate of Suzi, the city, and perhaps even the world.
A contemplative, static study of an unlikely landmark in an unlikely place. Normally only glimpsed in passing, Stott Hall Farm, a cottage built in 1737, floats islandlike in the middle if the M62 in West Yorkshire, whilst cars and lorries thunder past on both sides. Despite the farm seemingly being a monument to stubbornness, the urban myth being that the farmer refused to leave when the motorway was built in the 1970s, the truth of the story is that the east- and westbound carriageways could not meet due to the lie of the land, and the motorway had to be parted around the cottage to avoid landslips.
The preparations for the surprise birthday party at Lillyfield nursing home are underway, led by an enthusiastic Pippa.
The problem is Pippa's the birthday girl and nobody seems all that interested.
Surrounded by bored residents, a secret admirer and a pet rabbit, can Pippa celebrate her big day in style?
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend.
Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents.
As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
Moving between the vast enclaves of Middle Eastern high society and the stunning backdrop of London's West End, I Can't Think Straight explores the clashes between East and West, love and marriage, conventions and individuality, creating a humorous and tender story of unexpected love and unusual freedoms.
The 1960's saw the closure of hundreds of psychiatric hospitals when people gained more and more awareness of lobotomy, lobectomy, electroshock therapy, insulin therapy, and when the discovery of Thorazine prompted patients' release to the community. After the onset of de-institutionalization, there has been an almost deliberate effort to bury the history of these places.
Ian Ference, an amateur photographer has visited dozens of derelict insane asylums - mostly by breaking into the guarded premises - in order to resurrect the memories of those forgotten patients.
Insanity Vault follows Ian through one of his crazy adventures in Connecticut.
The team arrives at Norwich State Hospital early morning and sets up for a long walk in the nearby forest and along a disused railway line which leads to the abandoned buildings. They progress in a military like operation towards the safety of the tunnels, carefully avoiding the patrol.
Ian sets up base camp in one of the halls, which was originally used as a non violent building. Walls are crumbling and fallen plaster covers the ground several inches deep in some corners. Discarded documents and artefacts are scattered around.
The forensic ward, which housed the guilty for reason of insanity and the violent patients, is disturbingly beautiful. Sun rays finding their way through the barred windows, contrast with the sternness of the corridors. In some rooms, the roof has even collapsed.
Irene, a feisty 92 year old with Alzheimer’s, doesn’t want to be put into a home for the elderly. A personal film about three generations of women coming to terms with a difficult decision.
Award-winning director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) is back with a new heart-warming comedy about a hysterical Indian mum whose match-making efforts turn deadly when she tries to marry off her frumpy daughter.
At the start of the bitter Winter War the Soviet Red Army invaded Finnish-Karelia forcing thousands of civilians deep into Finland.
Teenagers Annikki, Inkeri and Hilkka left their families to drive cattle through deep snow and hostile lands. A lifetime later they look back on their adventures.
