Bill is an elderly pianist in his first week at a care home devoid of music.
Growing increasingly aware of Bill's passion for music, resident nurse Emma, seeks ways in which she can connect with him and help him to recover his sense of self.
"Walk With Me?" is a Guerrilla feature film shot according to 'the Guerrilla Filmmaker's Handbook' by Chris Jones. This film takes a surreal look into the life and mind of a writer who is healing after a car accident and suffering with Insomnia in London. She finds inspiration from the characters she meets in her dreams. Dreams and reality become blurred as her insomnia and sleeplessness fuel her writing.
Ana (40) suffers dwarfism and her mother (70), an elegant and sophisticated woman, has never accepted her condition. The muted taboos between the two women will echo more than ever when they prepare the house for Juan’s visit - the son and brother who lives far away from home.
In 1983 writer and theologian John Hull went blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life Notes on Blindness immerses the audience in John’s experience of blindness.
The Possibilities Are Endless tells the incredible story of Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke, an explosion in the brain so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. After a career as an internationally acclaimed lyricist, he lost all language and was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell”.
The film is narrated by Edwyn, trapped inside his devastated mind and his wife Grace, the woman who pulled him back to life. This isn’t just a story of determination against all odds; it is an intimate and life-affirming journey of rediscovery.
Justine doesn't speak. She communicates through looking, gesture and the body language of her movement and interactions. This short documentary creates a portrait of Justine’s experience, observing the close rhythms of her days in the run-up to her milestone birthday and new challenges of life in a changing welfare system.
Kieran struggles to rejoin life after waking from a four year coma. Detached, he works the graveyard shift for a bank call centre, life happens to him. Nightly he slips into apathy until he receives a wrong number call for The Samaritans and an opportunity to save a stranger.
A visually impaired photographer, Anne, is on the quest to set up a photographic exhibition. The eyesight's deterioration of a visually impaired photographer is a lifetime challenge but search for the necessary funding to organize exhibition becomes huge issue at this time. Would passion to art help overcome health limitations?
Birds Fly South is a micro budget, low-fi, tender, autobiographical, urban fairy tale coursed through with humour about love, life, death, mental illness and hope.
We see the story of 2 brothers lives shown through the prism of 24 hours and investigate what reality is, as Adam comes to visit Jake.
More Cake is the story of Matthew Collins who has a psychotic breakdown, during which he is unable to differentiate between what is real and what is not.
Greta Walsh, has been a sufferer of Agoraphobia - the fear of meeting people for about a year. She has been confined to the boundaries of her flat with her boyfriend, since she was attacked in an alley a year ago - the culprit was never caught.
Greta is becoming increasingly sure of who the attacker was. On a Christmas eve, feeling solitary and helpless, she confides in her close friend Harvey T'ang who visits to see her, about the discovery. But a series of visits at her flat soon leave the friends in a spiral that is set to make this quiet Christmas eve more challenging than they had anticipated.
