It’s 2005. Grace is 12, born of dual heritage, Jamaican and British, her 16 year old brother Curtis too. They live in a town in the Midlands with their Jamaican father David and British mother Esther. David and Curtis’ polar opposite ideals become the catalyst of ongoing friction between themselves and the entire family.
Kate is feeling frustrated with her life, her mental health is also not helping as she keep getting seizures and visions of someone who looks just like her. Her double’s name is Hannah and she is all that Kate has ever aspired to be: a successful executive in a huge pharmaceutical company. One night, Kate is overcome by dizziness and she wakes up on Hannah’s floor. Hannah’s brother Jack arrives, Kate tries to explain that she is not Hannah, but Jack is convinced that his sister is having one of her psychotic episodes. Later that night she encounters a scientist called Doctor Solomon, who explains to her that in a mysterious way Hannah managed to switch their dimension to save herself from an attempt murder. He promises Kate her that if she finds out who tried to murder Hannah he will be able to return them both to their own worlds. Kate assumes Hannah’s identity so that she can catch the murderer. It dawns on her that she has several strong suspects: an addicted brother, an abusive boyfriend and a harasser boss.
How can you be accepted when you're hiding behind a mask? The film represents a journey of a woman overcoming fear of not being accepted: starting from her desire to correspond to societal female standards, through admitting that she always felt as a weirdo and looking for an outside validation, to understanding that she does not need people who do not love her as she is and finally to accepting that she is ‘not normal’ and that the only acceptance she needs is the self-acceptance.
Freedom is our greatest need and our greatest fear. A story of one day from a life of a woman, everyday fighting with herself, trying to find freedom to feel, to enjoy, to make mistakes, to be a human being. A life happens not in epic events, but in everyday small steps.
When we are 100% authentically ourselves, we are being told we are Too Much. This is a story of everyday fighting with yourself and for yourself, of trying to find freedom to feel, to enjoy, to make mistakes, to be a woman.
From 20s to their 40s and more, women are put in cliche boxes suggesting what they should be at this age, at this life stage, in a certain country and culture. But we need to find a way to our true selves.
Humans demonstrate and passionately argue that plants have as much by way of brainpower as they do beauty. And what if they were actually communicating with us? And if they were, what do they have to tell us?
In September 2016, Susanna Cappellaro's husband told her he was going to become a cyborg. She immediately began filming his radical new path, the impact on their relationship, and her own deep dive into the world of transhumanism. Susanna's fight to maintain her altered relationship leads us to consider the wider impact of technology on the future of humanity as we know it.
A grieving mother feels like she’s losing her mind when she senses her deceased daughter’s ethereal, poltergeist-like energy around her. At first she’s terrified it will punish her, since she’s haunted by her own inadequacy as a mother. But later, she senses her daughter’s affection and intuitively knows, it’s never too late to offer all of your love.
If the cowboy boot fits, wear it. The arrival of a stray horse triggers a series of events in Bernicia’s life that alters her world as she slowly takes on the persona of a cowboy. Through her journey, she must overcome several obstacles that threaten her newfound desires. An uplifting drama about self-determination.
Official Selection Cartagena International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
WAYFARING STRANGER charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial edge lands and manicured enclaves, they find themselves in forests, farms, mountains and finally at the shore. Along the way, which lasts a lifetime, they undergo a transformation, through the seasons and changing geography, both physically and emotionally, from youth to elderhood, and from a single, alienated being into an accepted element of the wider world. Their personal narrative co-exists with the past, present and future of the land they traverse. Each ‘day’ is a ‘station’ that signifies a turning point in their emotional development: from escape, through loss, grief and waywardness, to solidarity and co-existence.
Part fable, part manifesto, part poem, filmed across landscapes marked by centuries of ceaseless human extraction, Wayfaring Stranger asks what it takes to find a liveable life on one’s own terms and without conflict with others and the environment.
Within the sound design by multi-award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson, the polyphonic environment scores the seasonal changes alongside the human and topographic shifts.
“Domestic violence - the beast that has been with us since time immemorial but refuses to die." Erin Pizzey
Erin Pizzey is a hero. Every refuge today owes its existence to her courage. Five decades after she made history, by opening the first women’s refuge in the world, icon Pizzey is joined by Dame Joanna Lumley to ask why so many lives are still devastated by domestic abuse. Articulate and engaging, they explore the mechanism, essence and psychology of the abuse, explaining why “the beast that has been with us since time immemorial” refuses to die. Resting on Erin’s five decade fight and unparalleled knowledge, they present proven ways to stop the cycle of abuse for both victim and perpetrator.
ERIN: BEHIND THE BRUISES offers a rarely intimate insight into the hidden reality of abuse. Through Erin’s astonishing life and great sacrifice, the film shows the incredible progress made, but sends an urgent message to press on. Thanks to Erin's courage, women went from suffering in silence, with nowhere to turn fifty years ago, to being supported and helped today, but the problem remains. “Too many today are still accepting the abuse because they are trapped, but we can stop it” explains Pizzey, calling for a "long overdue open, honest and serious discussion about domestic abuse.” This film is a call for action, a golden opportunity for real change.
Edited by Chris Hall (CNN, BBC, Discovery, Channel4), the film pays tribute to a living legend who changed the course of history. Fifty years ago Erin has singlehandedly brought domestic violence into the open, forcing society, local authorities and governments to address it. Erin has saved thousands of lives and changed women and children’s lives for the better, but her fight against domestic violence is far from over.
June 2012. The Afghanistan war is still raging. London is gripped in pre Olympic fever and it is the Queens Jubilee. After moving their upper middle-class lifestyle from London to a small town in the north of England, Emily invites their new next door neighbours Dawn and Alan over to become acquainted and Oliver begrudgingly complies. A clash of opinions about art, sport and politics ensues and a major disagreement concludes the evening with a startling revelation. The lives of these four neighbours begin to intertwine in ways none of them anticipated. Emily's desire for solidarity falls short of fruition. Oliver's questionable behaviour, the disappearance of Alan's cat, and Emily's break in sobriety all contribute to the story's end. With Emily oblivious to a major event, Alan unaware of his cat's whereabouts and Dawn in a state of mental collapse, the lives of these four neighbours will never be the same again.
A female-driven science fiction horror in the vein of TITANE and UNDER THE SKIN about a woman’s search for a monster hunter and her growing realisation that the creature being tailed, in fact, resides inside her.
