Taking inspiration from the haunting Japanese subversive art form Butoh, the film offers a cinematic interpretation of this singular style of expression. With high contrast, exaggerated grain, abstracted colours and flickering frames, A MONSTER WITH ITS MOUTH AGAPE captures the unsettling and chaotic climate of post-war Japan. Featuring a rare audio recording of Butoh master Yoshito Ohno.
Official Selection Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - European premiere
The “parts” are a painting of my own from some time ago, a waveform whose origin I don't remember, and a travelling letter “x” that suggests a stitch bringing them together, though what actually does so is almost certainly the Bach soundtrack.
In a derelict mansion on the outskirts of London, we witness eight actors - four Macbeths and four Lady Macbeths - work in pairs to investigate Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy.
Sophie Fiennes' richly detailed and immersive film offers privileged access to the vital experience of making theatre with pioneering practitioners Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of the ground breaking international theatre company Cheek By Jowl.
Cheek by Jowl is the international theatre company of Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. Its landmark productions, performed in more than 50 countries in the 44 years since the company was founded, have influenced the creation of theatre and the experience of audiences the world over. Actors including Adrian Lester, Tom Hiddleston, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, David Morrissey, Gwendoline Christie and Matthew MacFadyen all developed their talent working with Cheek by Jowl in their early careers.
"The setting of Twyford Abbey is dramatic, but Shakespeare’s text is also haunted by the ghosts of actors and audiences who have passed through it, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future." Sophie Fiennes
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024 - International premiere
Every year, in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy, an arboreal wedding is held to celebrate spring renewal. Here human and nature perform an ambiguous dance in order to reach heaven
An intimate VR experience that explores ’dis-ease’ within the body, through the lived experience of patients with breast cancer.
Meticulously crafted and developed in close collaboration with a team of scientists and researchers, this interactive experience tells the stories of patients’ healthcare struggles, with focus on breast cancer treatment. Audiences are led through a visual and sonic world that interweaves excerpts from survivors’ stories. It aims to invoke a more nuanced and holistic understanding of this sensitive topic.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2024 - Venice Immersive
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - LFF Expanded
A musical drama about Justine and her mother, Tess.
A hospital CT scan reveals a lump in Tess's breast, prompting an emotional journey that challenges a mother and daughter's strained relationship.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
A poor memory leads Gregor Petrikovi to make audio recordings of conversations with loved ones, friends, and acquaintances, and since 2016, he has been building an archive of anecdotes and recollections. With AI-generated visuals, SINCERELY, VICTOR PIKE combines these faceless voices in a patchwork to produce a collective memory around the semi-fictional figure Victor Pike.
Official Selection International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024
A young postman is tasked with sorting out lost post. Upon reading one opened letter, written by an author who claims to be an Angel from the future, the postman embarks upon a fantastical journey and attempts to get the letter to its intended destination.
The pace of technological progress in the physical world has stalled. WE MADE TELEPHONES converts mid-20th century propaganda and advertising into a personal, intergenerational exploration of how the ‘world of atoms’ fell apart—and how it might yet recover.
Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
Plunging us into the ever-accelerating rhythm of food supply and the emergence of new techno-capitalist processes, BLISS POINT looks at the entanglement of automation and human labour, from dark kitchens and food advertising sets to AI-managed warehouses.
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
