1810. Two governesses embark on their dream of opening a school for girls on the edge of Scotland’s capital, their chance of an independent life is threatened by the arrival of a new pupil, an orphan, and her aristocratic grandmother. As the pressures of class, race and deeply suppressed emotion build at Drumsheugh boarding school, a series of tragically avoidable events lead to the telling of one irreversible lie. At a time of great social conformity – accused of lesbianism – the resulting scandal leaves the teachers fighting for their livelihoods.
Based on the book 'Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired 'The Children's Hour'' by Lillian Faderman.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2026 - Panorama - World premiere
Set in a remote village in France, this is the story of a timid new vicar. Determined to be a hero in the eyes of the village, he becomes an accidental mass murderer which, in turn, cures him of his stammer.
Under pressure from her adult daughter to move and become a live-in babysitter, 74-year-old Agnes finds agency in an unexpected place.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
Set in an English boarding school. A tale of two teenage schoolgirls as they grapple with all the challenges of girlhood: friendship, boys, studies, growing up and their summer project, "to fall in love".
Adaptation of the Rose Tremain short story 'Extra Geography'.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
Determined to live life on her own terms, a mercurial taxi driver is drawn into the underbelly of Lagos’ sex scene, with deathly consequence.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2026 - Panorama - European premiere
THE WALNUT OF KNOWLEDGE turns Niyaz and Jonah’s yearly travels to Iran into a layered home movie. Based in a family garden outside of Tehran, we spend time with Jonah: watching his quest finding treasures beneath an old Walnut tree. The 80 year old Walnut tree has been a witness to many events from war to revolution, generations coming and going. Jonah hears these voices whilst he tries to understand his connection to this land. We hear mother and son’s reflections on life, history and belonging.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026 - World premiere
In a modern-day Lisbon, a city caught between locals and tourists, two art students drift through a weekend of sexual fluidity and late-capitalist burnout.
Sofia obsesses over nuclear war and lives in the shadow of the narcissistic Amandine but their toxic friendship is put to the test when Amandine crosses paths with Guilherme, a pseudo-intellectual Portuguese artist, at a fringe art event - derailing both friends' plans.
An acidic comedy exploring intimacy, identity, and the contradictions of being human in a generation powered by irony, anxiety, and Instagram.
In the midst of a city woodland, 16-year-old Iris explores her attraction to an older man. Their passion turns into a dangerous power play when Iris must indulge his cravings with a humiliating performance.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026
In a post-Brexit Europe, deadly viruses are for sale and espionage is back in business. Sick with the terminal virus that killed all her team, an ex-special agent has vivid dreams of the partner whose death she's responsible for.
In extreme cold, the human body can turn against itself through paradoxical undressing: failing nerves mistake freezing for heat, compelling the dying to shed their last protection.
In 水托邦 HYDROTOPIA, hydrophones frozen into ice capture the material disintegration of their frozen body as a projected film gradually emerges into clarity. The film follows British-Chinese artist Jamie Man suspended by hooks pierced through flesh in a winter landscape, practising rituals rooted in Shiva-dedicated traditions that explore a state of perpetual non-being. As the ice surrenders its form and the image sharpens into focus, transformation itself becomes the subject: matter abandoning one state for another, the body held suspended between dissolution and emergence.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026 - World premiere
A year after 7 October 2023, a British American Jew sets out to find out why 75% of Jewish Israelis support the way the war is being fought in Gaza.
The story is told using a combination of discussions and street interviews, AI-generated animation, archive and real-time actuality as the investigation builds towards its disturbing conclusion.
