A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching violent spaghetti western movies. When she finds an antique pistol in her late father's belongings she decides to stand up to her tormentors, just like her gun-slinging heroes.
An aspiring yet dispirited dancer develops an odd relationship with an obscene phone caller. Together they discover an impassioned interest in self-amputation
Ari, a sophisticated and urbane gay man, moves into a care home and encounters Beau, the beautiful, heterosexual, illiterate former thief who is now his carer. Their unlikely meeting changes the future for both of them.
A family of Irish Travellers come to England to find work. Joining their uncle in his driveway business they surf soup kitchens to pick up homeless men. Enslaved and forced to work, with little food and no money there's little chance of escape until a young newcomer arrives.
When a wealthy Oxford businessman is found dead beside a river in Oxfordshire, his daughter suspects he was murdered, The police disagree. She hires a private detective to investigate.
The detective, a disgraced ex-police officer, is drawn into a dark world existing in the underbelly of England's most revered city of learning.. a secret dark sexual interior. Little does he realize, each step forward takes him closer to a past which haunts him.
A ghost story and a puzzle which slowly reveals itself before exploding into a stunning revelation. Written, produced, and directed by self-funding writer: mol smith (a true Independent Brit, Film maker).
A film about the women who confounded ideas of what was appropriate or expected, and got involved in science in Victorian England. This is the story of Vanessa Kentworth and the rain.
Based on true events and the work of the British Rainfall Organisation.
Adapated from the novel 'Ali and Nino' first published in 1937 by an author writing under the pseudonym Kurban Said.
Set in Azerbaijan in 1914 exploring the dilemmas created by 'European' rule over an 'Oriental' society through the love story of Ali and Nino. Ali, a Muslim with his ancestors’ passion for the desert, and Nino, a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways - the two, who have loved each other since childhood, face a variety of obstacles preventing them from being together, including their religions and the impending threat of World War I. As the political-military situation intensifies in Russia and Turkey, the two become swept up in Azerbaijan’s fight for independence.
Sundance Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
A boy growing up in Dublin during the ’80s escapes his strained family life and tough new school by starting a band to win the heart of a beautiful and mysterious girl.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - Premieres - World premiere