In a near-future world where you can discover your Death Day, an apolitical woman learns that she and many Black people have been given incorrect dates and seeks justice before her time runs out - that same day.
During their golden wedding weekend away, Edward and Violet Knights are brutally separated, triggering a wife's desperate pursuit of her abducted husband through an increasingly frightening and unfamiliar world. APPROACHING SHADOWS is a story of true love and the acceptance of death, told through the vehicle of a horror-road movie.
When gallery director Ruth is accused of using her position to exploit people of colour, she protests her innocence - but her doubt turns to paranoia when anonymous portrait Canvas 5 starts to exert a power of its own.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022 - Winner, Norman McLaren Award for Best British Short Film
A BANQUET is the much anticipated feature debut from Ruth Paxton. A visually arresting slowburning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family possessed by a daughter's illness when she stops eating, exploiting the strains and the love between three generations of mothers and daughters.
Widowed mother Holly (Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Discovery - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult
Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.
A surreal short animation film about Thomas, a boy who becomes addicted to eating ants – despite the warnings of his parents.
Narrated in verse, the work playfully explores themes such as childhood rebellion and addiction.
Official Selection Hiroshima Animation Season 2022
A caustic online streamer’s anarchic behaviour triggers a non-stop nightmare.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Midnight Madness - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult
Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentations
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Thrill
HOMEBOUND follows Holly, a young woman who travels with her new husband to meet his estranged family, only to find his ex-wife is missing and the children behaving in strange ways.
Official Selection Fantastic Fest 2021 - World premiere
Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier do what they must to survive the cosmic elements and each other.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2021 - Online World premiere
Running from grief after the mysterious death of his wife, Eric Black takes a job as a shepherd. Trapped alone on a majestic weather-beaten island with an ominous secret. One man's sudden, spiralling madness meets a vengeful supernatural force. What starts as the perfect wind-swept escape becomes a race to save his sanity and his life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021
