BOUND follows two people navigating the ultimate walk of shame. In Leith, Edinburgh, Kelsey gets Martin drunk. They wake up handcuffed together and very hungover. This short film follows them over the course of one morning, trying to separate themselves and return to their normal lives.
Up until now, the list of people I’ve kissed in the dark has been comprised of two names. Both male. But with the witching season approaching, all that is about to change.
Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2022
Sarah and Dev meet in this quirky comedy clash of black and indian cultures cultures leading up to a mixed race marriage. Will their marriage stand the test of time?
John likes routine. He comes back home one day to find his wife gone. He pretends that she still lives with him and over time, settles into this new life. Will anyone find out that his wife has left him? How long will he continue the charade?
A gentle, sweet, funny, romantic story of love in later life. Following a couple in their sixties, Dave and Fern who get to know one another over the course of 23 dog walks. Set against the dramatic background of the changing seasons of one year.
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Lucy and Chris are cut adrift in their thirties struggling to remember what initially attracted them to one another and wondering where they go from here... Cue an impulsive decision to spend a fortnight interrailing around Europe's most romantic destinations, in the hope that this might save their seemingly doomed relationship. What ensues is bold, bonkers and a comic treat as Chris and Lucy travel through the backdrop of Europe's most beautiful cities with chaos, debauchery and disaster following them at every turn!
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody ever thought to look – Pembrokeshire. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time. When it comes to the toll, everybody’s going to pay.
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021
Artist/filmmaker team of Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell set off to understand the world of debt. It turns into a community movement which opens it own bank, produces its own currency and then buys £1 million worth of predatory debts, which are blown up in the shadow of London’s financial district. Filmed over five years, it is a story which takes in debt resisters in the US, leading international economists and a rich cast of people from the filmmakers’ diverse local community. At a time when most people – including politicians – do not understand how money comes into existence this film pulls back the veil on the dark world of debt with wit and insight. As one would expect from the makers of HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE (BFI London Film Festival 2011) the film mischievously plays with the documentary form as the filmmakers move from behind to front of camera, in an entertaining range of character. A film to inform, enrage and inspire.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - Artscapes - World Premiere
From acclaimed director Ben Lewin (THE SESSIONS), FALLING FOR FIGARO is a romantic comedy set in the fierce world of opera singing competitions, starring Danielle Macdonald (DUMPLIN', PATTI CAKE$, SKIN) and Joanna Lumley (ME BEFORE YOU, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS). Millie (Macdonald) is a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop (Lumley). It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming “Singer of Renown” contest. What begins as a brutal competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more…