Mother lies in bed; her daughter sits nearby in uncomfortable silence. To raise her mother's spirits, the daughter takes her on the imaginary road trip of a lifetime. Mother and daughter travel via Paris and Hollywood, and return home again as friends, without ever having left the room.
Paul has discovered he's starting losing his hair. He's worried because he thinks he will lose Sarah, his girlfriend, too. He runs to visit a pharmacist and tries a new product, but he will forget to read the small print and the problems will begin.
Fabia is insane from lack of sleep. She sets off to buy a large bottle of sleeping pills and a hat for the Easter Fancy Hat Competition. Every sound she hears is amplified and grates on her nerves but unknown to her, other people in the town are suffering too.
A Street Named Humber reflects concerns of regeneration and a city's heritage, of the traditions of the past and a changing future. Insights are gleaned from the individual memories of a microcosm of people from this vibrant and historic Yorkshire market street.
A story of forgiveness and reconciliation. Billy blames Maggie, his aging mother, for her unwitting role in the loss of Tina, his young daughter. As the events of their past are replayed in the present Billy finds the family he thought he'd lost.
After is a documentary animation that traces the emotional journey of three people as they journey from isolation and despair to discover a newfound hope in their lives.
After Refuge explores the effects of immigration on cultural identity.
Pari, a young refugee from Afghanistan, recounts her experience of fleeing her home country and settling in Britain; trying to find her new identity without losing her roots.
Taking the situation in Darfur as its catalyst the film is the contemplative journey of the film-maker to the land of her birth at a time of crisis. She examines the race dynamic in Sudanese society through the prism of her own experience of race in Britain and Sudan.
Darfur is on everyone's mind, from pedlars in the souk to professors at the University and the film offers a unique opportunity to see and hear Sudanese people articulating how they feel about the Darfur crisis, about race and politics in their country and about the place and role of the international community in their affairs.
When Candy Connor and Randy Bush, celebrated Californian self-help gurus, come to London to launch their bestselling book ‘Are You Ready For Love? How To Find Love in Three Days’, they choose three single Brits for a publicity stunt to prove that their advice works.
Luke, Barry and Melanie are the three unlucky-in-love hopefuls who pay good money to take part in Candy and Randy’s promotional promise.
Luke, a self-confessed ‘Monster Lover’, is a 38-year-old ageing pop star who relies on his status as a one-hit wonder to attract one-night stands. He is in desperate need of help to find a real relationship.
Barry, a 35-year-old Jewish dentist, is a perfectionist with high expectations for his perfect partner. He turns to Candy and Randy in a last attempt to avoid his domineering mother’s match-making scheme.
Melanie, a 32-year-old photographer, is a hopeless romantic looking for ‘The One’. Always seeming to find the wrong one, she believes that Candy and Randy will help her to find true love.
These three single Brits have just 72 hours to find love by following the advice given to them by the Californian gurus and their new book. Throughout this three-day period, their every move is filmed by roving cameras who are documenting their success for a promotional television programme to be shown at a press conference after the three days are up.
An errant father and his young son are thrust together unwillingly to perform a grim family task. Granddad has died, and the son and grandson have been entrusted with scattering the ashes at his beloved Anfield Stadium. But nothing in this family ever goes to plan, and the boy is left with a problem on his hands.
Bata-ville is a bittersweet documentary record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata's maxim 'We are not afraid of the future' means for them in 21st- century Britain.
Inspired by the contrast between the idealism of Bata and the more recent industrial decline of East Tilbury and Maryport, host/directors Pope and Guthrie lead this unorthodox coach party on a journey through Bata's legacy.
