Eight survivors escape to the skies in a badly damaged 747 to avoid a pandemic that is ravaging the earth. While they realise there’s nowhere safe on the ground, things start to go wrong in the air. How long can they stay airborne? And more importantly what will be waiting for them when they land?
Disillusioned reporter, Godwin, arrives in a West-African village to cover a local festival, but soon finds himself swept up in a witchhunt.
A series of misfortunes leads villagers to accuse a young, mute girl of being a witch. Their Pastor insists that the only hope of salvation lies in her exorcism and death. His compelling rhetoric and ability to incite fear into the people splits the village and threatens to tear their fragile world apart.
Godwin and a young school teacher attempt to save the girl’s life, bravely fighting back against corruption and false prophets.
Based on True Events, The Cursed Ones is a story of morality, religion, corruption and community in the dark heart of Africa.
Two young sisters watch Sam, their new teenage neighbour from afar. They track his movements on and offline. When they finally meet him, 10 year-old Dani strikes up a friendship and stops her spying, preferring to enjoy his company. But teenage Louisa takes a different path. During her continued surveillance of him she slips into obsession before stumbling across another observer.
Ireland, 1892. A widowed mother forms a sinister relationship with the body of her husband, leaving it to her son to do all he can to part the living and the dead.
When two young lovers crash their car into a ravine in the remote mountains of Wales, they are plunged into a lost world. Dragged from the river by a mysterious figure, they are taken to a ramshackle farm, a place untouched by time.
As events unfold we learn the explosive truth about the young couple’s past. More unsettling still, we discover the ghostly truth about Stanley, and the tragedy of the valley he once called home.
Two characters become victims of circumstance at a de-militarized border as a boy looks after his traumatised father. Individuals in this film are manipulated by the political powers that lead characters to extremes.
Twenty-four hours in the lives of six friends, examining the intricate weave of words, actions and emotions that unknowingly link and change the direction of their lives. And, the difficulties that debt, sickness, lies, drugs, pregnancy, unrequited love and assault bring when they weave their way into their ordinary lives.
'Macbeth' is the story of a fearless warrior and inspiring leader brought low by ambition and desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a reimagining of what wartime must have been like for one of Shakespeare’s most famous and compelling characters, a story of all-consuming passion and ambition, set in a war torn Scottish landscape.
Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition
In Khon Kaen a lonesome middle-aged housewife tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination that triggers strange dreams, phantoms, and romance.
"I write this film as a rumination on Thailand, a feverish nation. It will be the first film that takes place entirely in my hometown, Khon Kaen. It’s also a very personal portrait of the places that have latched onto me like parasites - the elementary school, the hospital, the library, the lake. Like the sleepers in this film, I shun the malady of reality, and together we take refuge in dreams of forever." Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Official Competition
VE Day, 1945. Across the world, people are celebrating the end of the war. London overflows with celebration and excess. Two teenage sisters are allowed out at night for the first time to join the party. They have an amazing adventure; it’s like a first date. Our two teenagers are Princess Margaret and the future queen of England, Elizabeth II.
UK release May 2015
Archie is a small boy with learning difficulties. He doesn't speak, and can't cope with school. His parents are at war, and the social services want to take Archie into care. Most people have written him off, but a chance meeting with an unlikely friend changes everything.
By Our Selves documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore. Meantime the journey is narrated by Toby’s father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films.
John Clare's escape from Epping Forest; an epic march through hunger and madness, is an English journey to set beside 'A Pilgrim's Progress'. Andrew Kötting, hyperkinetic camper-van captain of Gallivant, sets out in hot pursuit, dressed as a Straw Bear. Father and son, Freddie and Toby Jones, are possessed by the spirit of Clare, and locked in Beckettian embrace: one all-voice and one all-mute.
The writer Iain Sinclair watches from the shadows, Alan Moore waits like a bearded figure of fate, in Northampton and Dr Simon Kovesi hands out the medicine.
Captured in lustrous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road; whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always By Our Selves.
Inspired by Iain Sinclair’s Edge of the Orison and John Clare’s Journey out of Essex.
