Adlais (Echo) weaves Welsh language folklore and histories through their shared subjects of poetry and drowning – and asks whether we’re listening to the past as it surfaces today.
1974 - a young woman flees war-torn Cyprus to start a new life in apartheid South Africa, carrying with her a dark secret that threatens her future happiness.
A story of friendship and self-discovery, of finding your place in a world fraught with violence and division.
Claudia is the mother of a beautiful baby who is now entering the delicate phase of weaning. Constantly alone - with a partner abroad and friends she never asks for help - she tries to rely on her mother’s advice to navigate daily challenges, but her mother seems unable to remember anything from when Claudia herself was a child. Even breastfeeding becomes too difficult, as the baby’s early teething injures her. As the baby begins to lose weight, the paediatrician urges Claudia more and more insistently to start weaning, but her first attempts end in failure. Worried about her inability to properly nourish her child, Claudia seeks support from a lactation consultant, who reassures her: she already is everything her baby needs...
What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened?
GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days.
We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.
Following the director, Beryl Richards's adopted son Nathan/Joe’s journey from a one-year-old to adulthood, told from the viewpoints of parent and child.
Joe wants to make this film so people ‘get’ him, know what it means to be neurodivergent, and what he has been able to achieve despite many challenges. Beryl shows the evolution of a family created from scratch that’s had to keep adapting. The challenge and recalibration of being a parent and a lifetime carer.
The core of the story is told through 28 years of home movie footage- sparky, warm and funny as Nathan/Joe develops into the man he is today. Alongside, a growing boy is shown, much misunderstood and almost destroyed by the prejudice and ignorance surrounding neurodivergence. The family therapy received along the way offers some support, but also reveals how the family dynamic was influenced by Beryl’s own experience of childhood neglect.
Beryl first saw 6-month-old Nathan on a VHS tape. She and husband Dave responded with a video welcoming him to their home. For the past 28 years Beryl has recorded “our feelings, our joy and our pain" so that Nathan could better understand his story later in life.
A woman attempts to address the self that has shaped her life until now - the “Me” formed through trauma, habit, and survival.
Conceived in relation to the cinema of Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, the film locates meaning in the actor’s presence and in the organisation of cinematic form, rather than in dialogue or narrative guidance.
This encounter is not a dialogue but a struggle: the effort to speak to a governing inner presence in order to loosen its hold. As the film unfolds, the confrontation moves deeper, toward a dark, underground interior where escape seems impossible. In the final movement, a rupture appears - a hole, a glimpse of sky, hands reaching upward from below. Whether she gets out remains uncertain. What matters is that the exit has been found.
An intimate journey through the storied careers and private lives of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, the visionary founders of Split Britches.
Through behind-the-scenes footage, exclusive interviews, and a deep dive into their most influential performances, we uncover how Split Britches have transformed discussions around gender, identity, and the role of performance in political activism. Throughout this journey we also uncover the real love story behind their life’s work - a universal tale of support, trial and tribulation.
Shot on location in both Upstate New York and New York City LOIS AND PEGGY reveals the essential domestic side of this iconic performance duo and lays bare the complexities of two artists juggling their work and their relationship simultaneously. Showcasing the depth, complexity, and universality of love, this documentary makes a valuable contribution to the cultural and historical legacy of LGBTQ+ communities - capturing and preserving the experiences of love and relationships within a context that has often been marginalized or erased from history.
When a defiant young girl stages a silent protest, refusing to return home until the disruptive presence of her father is gone, her mother must decide whether to follow her or let her go.
Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival - in Competition Orizzonti Corti
A chance visit at a historic murder/ suicide location in Manhattan inexplicably draws a film producer into the crime and inner world of the murderer, American visionary poet and sun mystic Harry Crosby. As her research spirals into obsession, her grip on reality frays, culminating in a harrowing burnout- until she discovers a shocking personal link to the killer.
An original and emotional film dealing with the surreal nature of art and trauma.
When Russia started its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Slava Vakarchuk immediately joined the army. He is the lead singer of Ukraine's most popular rock band, Okean Elzy. He has put himself in danger by performing hundreds of times for the troops at the front, and is an articulate and highly respected advocate for his country's right to exist. President Zelensky gave him and his band a new mission - a world tour to champion Ukrainian culture and raise the morale of refugees living abroad. The band's performance at their sell-out concert at the UK's Royal Albert Hall acts as the spine of the film.
The band was formed on the dawn of independence, and their songs have become anthems of pro-democracy revolutions ever since since. The film charts the band's 30-year history with contributions from a varied group, including Timothy Snyder, Andriy Shevchenko and music producer Ken Nelson, all to tell the story of how 'soft power' can be used as a weapon of self-defence.
