Alone in her apartment a woman, Elle, is waiting for a phone call from her ex-lover (Monsieur). Elle receives two wrong numbers before he calls. The couple discuss their past relationship, Elle blames herself for their problems, claiming, "Tout est ma faute.". Throughout their conversation they experience numerous telephone problems and finally their connection cuts out completely. When Elle calls Monsieur’s home phone she discovers that he is not there, she assumes he is at a restaurant. He calls her back, and Elle reveals that she has lied during their conversation; she took twelve sleeping pills in an attempted suicide, then called her friend Marthe, who arrived with a doctor to save her. Elle grows suspicious that Monsieur is with his new girlfriend, but he never admits his whereabouts. Elle reveals her obsession with the telephone, she has slept with it in her bed for the past two nights. Their connection fails once again, and Elle panics. Monsieur calls her back once more, and Elle informs him that she now has the telephone cord wrapped around her neck. Telling him she loves him over and over. She sinks into her bed and drops the receiver.
In a quest to change the future by understanding the past, to shine a light on self-knowledge, shared vulnerability, and kindness, a leap of faith is often required.
This dance film explores and shares that leap of faith, to tell a story through movement, to be vulnerable with no limits.
Shot on 16mm, MIRRORS is a lucid diary and poetic map of an island, its relationships, customs, rifts and bonds, depicting its diverse individuals, communities, and historic events. As we gaze at our reflection in this film, it takes us on a mesmeric journey through seven unprecedented years, in England.
A hybrid documentary by and for black men, on mental health, sexual trauma and finding strength through brotherhood. Blending interviews, poetry, dance and storytelling, it captures the lives, realities, and the hopeful perspectives of men in the North, the Midlands, London in the UK.
They are the unsung heroes of hip hop, disco and a host of other genres, whose message of peace, love and funk sailed beyond Britain's shores and helped shape music for five decades. Long after they stopped playing, the music played on, so they returned to play some more.
In the racially turbulent UK of the early 70s, a group of black musicians came together in South London with a common love of rhythms and a message of peace. Cymande – with the dove as their symbol – combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean grooves to form a unique sound. Despite success in the USA they faced indifference in their native Britain, becoming disillusioned and disbanding. But the music lived on, as new generations of artists imbibed and reworked their pioneering sounds in fresh ways. From Soul II Soul to De La Soul, MC Solaar to The Fugees, the Dove had spread Cymande's message far and wide, prompting their return after forty years. This is their story.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
Thirty something Indian sisters Rumi and Nina journey to London in pursuit of their music dream. But working at an Indian Takeaway wasn’t part of the plan.
Who was Tilly Losch? Dancer, artist, choreographer, lover, wife, muse… Tilly seems a blur, glimpsed at the corner of the eye, dancing in and out of focus. A powerful and thought-provoking statement about female identity.
Non-binary Japanese-Irish drag artist ShayShay storms the UK’s cabaret scene with a gender-diverse, Pan-Asian collective to dismantle racial stereotypes with love and glitter.
RESISTANCE SAHARA, a haunting yet playful exploration of the liminal space between experimental, documentary, and fictive filmmaking, presents an artistic response to the Sahrawi refugee crisis from the frozen war in Western Sahara. Bringing international artists from a mix of disciplines to the Sahara Desert, and with them will create something new, a response to what they encounter.
The film mix testimony from the mouths of the people who live in each zone of crisis with music; image; and symbolism. The audience is invited to reconsider their view of the nature of human suffering, and to build a new bridge of empathy with the people in these remote and sometimes forgotten places.
An Arabic-language opera about mourning and inherited trauma. Performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, it fuses Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Masha’al, a traditional Palestinian song.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - International premiere
An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - World premiere
A little girl’s love for her bedridden Papa inspires a town in lockdown to make music from their windows.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2023
