Linda and her two daughters, Ali and Max, embark on their first holiday since leaving a violent household. What begins as an exciting escape to a beloved caravan park quickly turns into a fragile attempt to rebuild their lives and heal from the trauma of their past. While the initial days are filled with laughter, hope, and the freedom of new beginnings, Linda’s unresolved pain begins to surface in unexpected ways. As the days pass, Linda experiences a breakdown, her trauma manifesting as psychosis.
Struggling to stay grounded, she becomes increasingly detached from reality, her grip on the present slipping further with each passing hour. Eventually, in a moment of deep disconnection, Linda disappears.
MILES AWAY is an intimate portrayal of the psychological aftermath of abuse. As Ali and Max search for their mother, the film delves into the silence that surrounds mental health and trauma, capturing the haunting emotional journey of those left behind. It is a story of love, loss, and the long, painful road to healing, as the daughters are forced to confront their own fears and find a way forward without the one person they were depending on.
On the cusp of adolescence, Celia’s world begins to unravel after she discovers her mother’s affair. Alienated at home and struggling with a mind where reality and imagination intertwine, she retreats into long summer days with her cousins, Kerry and Hannah. Things take a dark turn when she and Kerry stumble upon a body deep in the woods. They urgently summon the adults for help, but the body inexplicably vanishes - and no one believes them. As Celia becomes consumed with uncovering the truth, her grip on reality fractures further, pulling her into a dangerous mystery where the line between witness and suspect blurs, and the greatest threat may lie within her own mind.
This coming of age film explores maladaptive daydreaming, an emerging psychological phenomenon where people become trapped in elaborate inner worlds - daydreams so vivid they can feel more real than reality itself. Affecting an estimated 2-5% of people, it often begins in childhood as an escape from trauma.
Ina Lüders is a German director based in London. With over 40 years of experience in the film industry, she is currently 63-years-old and this is her feature film directorial debut.
After travelling to Italy on the anniversary of her son's death, Magda - a Polish immigrant to Ireland - returns to Donegal, where she has a life-changing encounter with a refugee, newly arrived from Rwanda.
Arts Council of Ireland - Authored Works Award 2025 - Irish Film Institute - World premiere
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2025 - European premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
Cherry's neglectful husband departs after placing a secret wager to test her fidelity. Along with her sharp-witted maid, Hero, Cherry must fend off a dangerously seductive visitor: Manfred.
Official Selection Venice Critics' Week 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - Closing Night Gala
Following Argiro, a bad-ass farmer, and her best friend, Anneta, a manicurist and local “It” girl, who grew up in the same rural village in northern Greece. As Anneta prepares to leave for the city with her lame cop boyfriend, Argiro entices her to embark on one last adventure - a hike to the legendary, mystical bear cave that has fascinated them since childhood. What begins as a nostalgic journey soon spirals into a tense exploration of their friendship, as deep-seated secrets and betrayals surface. Confronted with their true feelings, Argiro and Anneta must decide whether they end up together.
Official Selection Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) 2025 - World premiere
Alone in the mountains: Olivia, her Father, and their home. By the foothills, a slaughterhouse, where Father works. When Father disappears Olivia descends the mountains in search of him.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
A music video inspired by Jacob Collier’s song 'Lark in A Sky Shop'. It explores the depth of tension within one’s soul and life, stretched between light and darkness, day and night, oppression and freedom, and the turbulent navigation through it all. It’s about being pressed, found, and brought into a spacious place. It’s a dialogue, a confrontation, a story full of twists and turns, which ultimately suggests the possibility of discovering a source of life, freedom, and everlasting love.
After the death of her husband, Janet decides to distract herself by rearing a goose, which is to be the centrepiece of her Christmas dinner. However, as she grows ever more isolated from her daughter, Janet’s need to nurture the goose becomes an obsession: one which will cost her dearly.
A modern-day Grimm’s fairy tale about grief, isolation… and a goose.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - Winner - Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a hand raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school, but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma.
A beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Three women find their relationships are changed forever when they put pen to paper.
This sexy dramedy is a comforting embrace during turbulent times. We follow the adventures of three women in the English coastal town of Folkestone, as they express their secret desires through their writing. The story celebrates the power of Mother Nature, and female friendship, as the women turn fantasy into reality.
Content warning: sexually explicit language.
Becky, an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy, a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish party hosted by Stacy’s father at their country estate. The evening descends slowly into chaos, and the girls’ lives are forever transformed after the unexpected arrival of a modern-day genie who promises to grant their deepest, darkest wishes.
A dark comedy set in New York, inspired by Aesop’s fable 'Avaricious and Envious'.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
