Lisa, mid forties, has never truly left home. Stuck in an endless routine of cleaning and caring for her sick mother, today is tougher than most; she has missed the deadline on her final Masters assignment. Will she learn to establish necessary boundaries in her life before it’s too late?
A modern twist on an old ghost story. A group of diverse young women resurrect an ancient club to help them change the world, only to find the original members are still alive, and hungry for new blood...
Reverend Neil's life was once filled with frivolity and funk music. Now it's bingo and ready meals. So he decides to indulge his inner disco diva one more time.
Iris Prize Nomination 2022
Continuing the story of aspiring film student Julie.
Official Selection Cannes 2021 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Gala
Both lonely for different reasons, Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s Slovakian tenants, whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness and Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. Over a lunar month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow. However, the legacy of Ava’s past relationship and Ali’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage begins to overshadow their newfound passion.
Enveloped in music and imbued with humour, ALI AND AVA is a compelling contemporary love story written and directed by BAFTA-nominated Clio Barnard (THE ARBOR, THE SELFISH GIANT, DARK RIVER).
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentation
ANYWHERE BUT HERE is a metacommentary film about wanting to go places and see new faces, but being prevented from doing so by the pandemic. The narrator unravels a bittersweet resolution in the self-reflexive filmmaking process as we dive deeper into her dreamscape.
In search of healing, a young woman returns home to Nigeria, the country of her birth.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022
Baron von Harden is rich and highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at Mephisto's House of Ill Repute exchanging his soul for unlimited worldly pleasures.
At a time when ever-greater numbers of people are bilingual (or trilingual), it’s often the case that the language someone most regularly talks in isn’t the same as the language they think in. A mother tongue precedes any other tongue—the umbilical idiom an individual instinctively falls back on, and the one they feel most at home in. The title of Kondo Heller’s video MU/T/T/ER plays on the word for ‘mother’ in German—a language, like English, with which she is intimately familiar without it always feeling unconditionally, authentically familial. In this video and audio collage, compiled where Heller was living during lockdown, snatches of English and German share the space with remembered or re-discovered Swahili. As a background murmur to all these, a subliminal but ubiquitous resident voice surfaces in the spluttered mutterings and stuttered utterances that are the common parlance of someone living alone. These fragments of inner monologue, mumbled under one’s breath or spoken out loud, are matched to different rooms in the house, as if to echo different facets of the self. A poetic reminder of the patterns and habits of introspection, and the quiet tumult of everyday personal thoughts that reverberate within.
The story follows an unlikely friendship between Ruth - an isolated pensioner in her 80s that visits her allotment daily, and Safiya - a teenage Syrian refugee that is struggling to adapt to her new life in Bradford.
