Two hands, Glynid and Hynus, are trapped together indoors. As they talk, we learn that they are waiting for a virus wreaking havoc in the outer world. Glynid is an anxiety-riddled know–it–all who dogmatically follows ‘the science,’ while Hynus is an ignoramus whose nonsensical belligerence highlights their absurd situation. They argue over what precautions to take, what the statistics mean, and how to pass the time. Endless desperate moves ensue as the pair attend a virtual Shibari workshop, create pubic hair art, compose a virus-themed anthem, and partake in cleansings and poisonings, before remembering they have a child that they may have accidentally left outside. Deciding to leave to find the child, they stay.
This puppet show, drawing from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, satirizes the Covid-19 era. Connected to the outside by a window that doubles as a screen, what begins as a waiting game soon unravels into paranoiac exchanges, conspiratorial musings, and bouts of reflection that lead to self–loathing in one hand and self–care in the other. As the objects that once held meaning to them disappear while they wait, a new reality grows around them, if only they had eyes to see it.
Forced out of their home to face life on the streets, young lovers Sophie and her singer/songwriter husband Paul must fight to keep their love, dreams and music alive...
Since losing her job to Covid-19, Sophie is now manager come roadie come photographer for her wannabe rock-star husband Paul. Swindled out of money and cancelled gigs these young lovers find themselves in debt and priced out of their hometown - London.
Leaving London behind they head to the coast to stay with a mate but things don’t work out and to top it off their beloved 2CV car gets towed away and they have to give up their beloved black labrador Maisy.
With heavy hearts but never losing their sense of humour or love for each other they spend their first night sleeping outside under the stars. But life on the streets quickly loses its romantic appeal as they are faced with choices that threaten to change their lives. Forever.
THE WILD ONES is a creative documentary exploring the power of wild swimming. Set against a backdrop of the Scottish landscape, it tells the stories of loss, trauma, and healing. The film shows that water can provide freedom, emotional fulfilment and allow people to feel at home in their skin. It reminds us that it is good to be alive.
Combining interviews and observational footage, we come to understand our characters’ struggles and the way wild swimming inspires each person to overcome them. Theirs are stories of grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD, body confidence issues, chronic pain and healing. Life-affirming and lyrical, THE WILD ONES captures the sheer exhilaration of swimming in cold, natural water.
We are in a time revolution right now. We break time down into smaller fragments, so we can get more out of each minute, more lifespan, more speed. And yet, we are fractured , out of sync with nature. We have sacrificed significance for speed. More and more of us want to slow down, take stock, savour life, but are swept along in the world’s frantic pace.
How do we step out of this? How do we find meaning in our finite lives?
MAKING TIME is about how we experience time, told through the lens of five horologists, whose creations measure time in sure and steady beats. Their stories reveal something about how to live and how to use our time well. They tell what it means to search deep to find your purpose and follow your dream. And they speak to us about alchemy. Alchemy in the transformation of dull raw materials into valuable golden objects certainly, but deeper still, in the transformation of experience - sorrow, loss, love - into art. The pulse of the timepieces they create synchronises with the pulse running through all of life.
In a washed up coastal town in Kent a butcher who, tortured by intrusive obsessive thoughts, spends a precious, fleeting afternoon with his favourite companion, his 11-year-old daughter.
A short horror set in 19th Century India, where a nurse’s first night on the job descends into terror as she discovers the truth behind the disappearances of mixed race babies.
Awkward teen Lucy escapes dull suburbia and archaic gender norms when she’s thrown into the alternative world of the buff and brilliant builder Louisa, whose unconventional beauty makeover treatments involve angle grinders, builders tea & cement baths.
Set in post WW2 Venice Italy, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, haunted by the war, is a bona fide hero who faces news of his illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend a weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell's plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a remarkable young woman begins to re kindle in him the hope of renewal. Based on the last full-length novel Hemingway published in his lifetime, ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES captures a fleeting moment of immortality where time stands still. The story contains the great Hemingway themes of love, war, youth, and age.
A young man with a bruised face is discovered in an airport. He says his name is Adrien Legrand, a child who disappeared 10 years ago. As he's finally reunited with his father, gruesome murders are piling up in the region.
Several people wander between dream and memory searching for the ones they lost. Interwoven destinies bring us an intimate and moving answer to this question. By fulfilling their innermost dreams and connecting with the ones they love.
What happens to the ones we love after their death? Can we bring them back? Can we keep them alive through our memories? Or perhaps by placing them in an imaginary afterlife world?
Journals explores the question of the existence and afterlife in its various imaginative forms and visions around the world. It is about the parallel life that we can dream of, but cannot touch.
In PRINCE OF MUCK retired patriarch Lawrence MacEwen is beginning to live out his final days. As Laird of the Isle of Muck, it has been his mission in life to preserve the fragile society on this Inner Hebridean island, so it may pass to his son, Colin, and future generations. His Sisyphean efforts seem to have worked… but at what cost to him?
Directed by first time feature director Cindy Jansen, PRINCE OF MUCK is a beautifully realised, cinematic documentary about a man struggling to accept he no longer controls his son, his life, nor the isle he so loves. Dutch Director Jansen brings a cool, seemingly detached ‘outside eye’ to a classic Scottish scenario, as a Laird surveys his Life and Land. Jansen's carefully constructed narrative gives space to inter-generational tensions to slow-burn, dramatic effect.
PRINCE OF MUCK starts off as a portrait of an eccentric man, but slowly rises above his family’s history on this particular island, to become a more universal story, a classical rendition of interdependence, a simultaneously transient, yet deep, experience, of a man slowly accepting the eternity that beckons him and, we ultimately recognise, awaits us all.
