In 1908 Maurice Maeterlinck’s allegorical masterpiece 'The Blue Bird' premiered in Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre. 114 years later and on the very eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a theatrical troupe stage the play in Kyiv.
But all is not what it seems. A deadly game is afoot. A murderous puzzle unfolds.
As his mother’s memories slip away, a man goes to extraordinary lengths to preserve their relationship while navigating the fragile terrain of a new romance.
Daria has written her first manuscript about falling in love with a mysterious girl called ‘abi’ [blue]. The night flowers in her garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
A little Ukrainian refugee boy seems lost, as he wanders around English forests, fields and villages, but he’s on a big mission: to save his Motherland.
Against her wishes, Anna’s estranged son becomes a film director. When his film is set to screen in the city, Anna travels to see it.
Official Selection Hamptons International Film Festival 2025
After decades of lies, resentments and stolen identities, a Muslim mother confronts her drag queen son for her long overdue moment in the spotlight.
Mother's husband and Son's father has just died. Mother is losing everything; her house, her glamour, her visibility. Son is profiting from grief; a drag queen who wins the applause his mother has never received. Whilst he has the spotlight, she is erased. He exaggerates stories of his mother, bartering in Islamophobic tropes to win white peoples’ sympathy. Her life is being re-written by her son – and he does it dressed as her.
Like Medea before her, Mother decides to claim what is hers – her voice, her identity, her story, her trauma. She confronts her son backstage for a show. A tragic Greek confrontation ensues, where intergenerational curses are finally broken, and Mother claims what she feels is rightfully hers.
Her womanhood, her spotlight, her moment.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2025
A reclusive forest ranger, who finds solace in nature over humanity, is forced to confront his mistrust when two environmental researchers arrive, threatening the only world he calls home.
A recent Ukrainian widow prepares to move out of her Toronto home, when a persistent leak threatens to destroy a collection of drawings by her late husband, leading her to confront emotions she had tried to avoid.
Official Selection Palm Springs International ShortFest 2025 - World premiere
A psychological drama set between Oxford and the Suffolk coast, exploring how we connect, forgive and grieve for both others and ourselves. It follows the relationship between Otto, a university student, and John, a retired angler who lives on the coast who bond over shared trauma of losing a loved one.
Official Selection Raindance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere