You might think America is a democracy, where freedom of speech and basic rights are guaranteed. But at its heart, there is a great injustice. Against all the odds several extraordinary citizens are banding together and fighting back for their basic right to clean water. Armed only with facts and their illnesses, they risk arrest to take on the might of industry and government. From Flint to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story.
Artist, activist and performer Jess Thom, who has Tourette's syndrome, conducts a revealing investigation into one of Beckett’s most intense monologues, ‘Not I’, in which she asks the audience to reconsider issues of disability, representation and social exclusion.
This film is radical in its asking of exciting and novel questions about the portrayal of disability in the arts and the exclusion of disabled people as cultural and creative producers. Jess moves past the reverence that surrounds Beckett’s work and makes it accessible to everyone, while raising questions about cultural curation, who has access to theatre and who can perform it.
What price do the farmers of Punjab pay for the rice on our plate?
The north Indian state of Punjab was said to have produced enough food to feed the entire country during the Green Revolution. However, the overuse of chemicals introduced to enhance production poisoned the water with carcinogens and created an infertile soil addicted to chemicals. Just as the land is dependent, so are more and more farmers becoming addicted to drugs, which help them to work longer hours in the fields. The expense of the chemicals and drugs forces farmers to take loans from 'Arthis', the rich middlemen who increase their interest rates without warning. Over 50,000 farmers have committed suicide in the last ten years, by drinking the toxic chemicals that are murdering Punjabi soil.
Eve has lost her husband in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a remote Suffolk beach house to grieve, but there's someone else in the house grieving her loss from another war.
Set in current day Brooklyn, the story of Lilian, a lazy but charming and beautiful young woman who, having broken up with her boyfriend, has been placed into the care of family friend and famed reclusive author, Julia Price. To impress her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia - albeit an unauthorized one - with surprisingly amusing results.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere
As her childhood turns into motherhood, teenage troublemaker Gemma comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town. But in a place where “you either get knocked up or locked up,” innocent games can easily turn into serious crime.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Winner: Best Documentary Feature Award; Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award, Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face of Europe
One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfil an age-old desire: starting his own family. This is the story of the dad who gave birth.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 – The Changing Face of Europe
When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mum accidentally gets pregnant from a one-night-stand, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Discovery - International premiere
A nightmarish contemporary vision. Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind – one physically and the other psychologically.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand - World premiere
After waking up from yet another heart surgery, Liddy (Fern Deacon) starts hearing a voice telling her that she risks dying a virgin, and that's unacceptable...it's her heart Lump (David Tennant) talking. He's planning to help her get with hot nurse Kim (Siena Kelly) and learn to live a little.
Alex and Sam's relationship hits a crossroads, when Alex reveals a big secret. As the high-school sweethearts spend their first night alone together, they have to confront their fears head-on.
How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.
