Present day. Sarah McGuire, a travelling sales woman is off on a trip up north to sell her boss's latest range of lingerie stock. Unhappy in her current relationship with a car mechanic, she sets off with a mind to change her life for the better. She is good at her job but is unfulfilled. To alleviate her daily boredom she runs to orchestral music. Running is her one real pleasure in life.
A chance meeting in a pub while drunk furnishes her with a list of ten beautiful places to go running in Britain. Initially, the places are on route between her sales assignments, but finally Sarah has to make the decision to get off the beaten track and go on the run.
No longer in conflict with her true self and her job, Sarah follows the list and one by one ticks off the places to run until she finds herself in the very north of Scotland wondering why she is there at all.
Set across England, Wales and Scotland, Back Burner is a road movie that takes the lead character from London to far north.
Fifteen year-old Malik and his friend Adam start to suspect that older brother Jamal is a potential terrorist bomber. But when they start to follow him they discover the truth is much more complex.
When 11 year old Aimee gets separated from her mother she begins a long and turbulent journey through the UK's social care system. As she is moved from one home to another her emotional roller-coaster of a life shows just how too many opinions can cause such harm.
The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster's origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of his emblematic projects.
It is the summer of 1976, the hottest summer in living memory, and keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on a school musical of her version of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. To get the kids engaged, she weaves the play around their favourite pop songs, using the hits of the day by artists as diverse as David Bowie, Lou Reed, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Dusty Springfield and Electric Light Orchestra. The music is sung and performed by a fresh and enormously talented group of young actors led by rising star Aneurin Barnard. The result is a film that is in turn touching, life affirming, funny and nostalgic, and a love letter to the music of the period.
Luka (27) is a carer for his mother. When she gives him a day off he feels the need to leave out his entire youth in one day, helped by two significant encounters.
17-year-old Zoe succeeds in juggling her GCSE retakes, supermarket job and commitments to her friends until her boyfriend and best mate betray her. Is this the wake-up call she needs? It's a dark moment for Zoe, faced with sacrificing the life she knows for the life she really wants.
Molly (8), an only child of a Pakistani father and British mother, watches her parents' marriage disintegrate before her eyes as mum embarks on a romantic relationship with another man.
In a disturbing dream Molly fantasises with killing mum's lover to put an end to the extramarital affair, subconsciously wishing that putting mum's lover out of the picture will bring things back to normal in her family.
But things are far from normal when mum disappears after a heated argument with dad.
An ominous curse materializes to change Rita's life forever. Hunted down, flung across borders, and plunged into a world of torture, imprisonment and sexual exploitation, Rita battles desperately to overcome her predicament.
