Anne lives in the nursing home and is waiting for her daughter Rose to visit her, but when she wakes up in the woman's refugee she discovers bruises on her body and is coughing up blood. What happened to her the night before?
London, 1965. Nizam is depressed, drinking heavily and convinced that his wife Marjorie, who left him when their son was born, will return. In the course of one day, Nizam remembers his courtship and marriage in the fifties and in 2012 we see what happens, when Sajid finally finds Marjorie.
One in three girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, conflict or discrimination. This animated film shows, in 2000 fun still photos of 15 children in their village in Malawi, how education can give girls the chance to move from poverty to opportunity.
He's a sadist, she just runs away. They meet urgently, quickly, in dark alleys, closed kebab shop and take aways. Both married, both successful - best companions in severance. A harsh, ruthless portrait of two characters and a city that doesn't love them back.
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' frustrated domesticity. But, as the Cold War meets the sexual revolution, and the threat of nuclear holocaust escalates, the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered by the clash of desire and the determination to survive.
“Born in the hour of India’s freedom. Handcuffed to history.” Midnight’s Children is an epic film from Academy Award-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Salman Rushdie.
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, and Shiva, the offspring of wealthy Muslims, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India’s whirlwind journey of triumphs and disasters.
Mystic Fighters will take your breath away with a strong
cinematography based on a character driven narrative and you will
discover the deadly art of stick fighting in Trinidad & Tobago like no one has approached it before.
It takes you into a world beyond preconceptions where the poorest becomes the man of knowledge and the guardian to one of the eldest traditions based on the interaction between man and nature.
Over the past decade, labia surgery has increased by a staggering 500%. Centrefold is a unique animated documentary that takes an innovative and balanced approach to this controversial topic. Created by award-winning filmmaker Ellie Land and funded by the Wellcome Trust, visit www.thecentrefoldproject to find out more and join the debate.
Danielle is Eris; goddess of Strife in the Greek pantheon. She is a foster child, teen mother, victim of violence at home and from the state. This is a portrait of a life currently being lived. This film examines the nature of Strife in 21st century Britain.
