Toby is an unhappy 'suit', caught between a jealous girlfriend, a pushy father, and a boss who desperately wants him to be passionate about soap. On his way home from work, he has his belongings stolen by someone going to the local music festival. Determined to get his things back, Toby heads to the festival to find the thief… but ends up finding love and freedom instead.
There is nothing standing in the way of aspiring 15-year-old actress Donna and the leading role in her school production of “Romeo and Juliet” – except her unsupportive conjoined twin, Rhonna...
Determined to gate-crash her ex-lover’s funeral on glamorous French hideaway Île de Ré, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with the help of repressed English housewife Priscilla.
Pooling their limited resources, they hit the road together by coach, ferry, car, and foot in a race to get to the funeral on time, becoming embroiled in a romantic triangle with an Italian painter along the way. On this unforgettable journey, they find true friendship in one another – and have the time of their lives... on a road trip like no other.
The discovery of a mysterious black box in a small remote village in Iran causes turmoil among the villagers. According to a public announcement, it is promised to make the finder of the box prosperous.
Mad To Be Normal reveals the story of R.D. Laing, a psychiatrist known as one of Scotland's greatest thinkers. Working out of Kingsley Hall - situated in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing performed various daring experiments on people who were at the time known as disturbed.
His methods included using LSD and a type of self-healing, known as metanoia, much to the dismay and outrage of the psychiatric community.
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. The lovers gamble on raising money from the booming market for tulip bulbs to fund their escape.
Based on Deborah Moggach's best-selling novel 'Tulip Fever'.
Jake and his friends pass their time hanging out in the courtyards of their high-rise development or in pool halls, talking about girls, watching pornos and getting drunk. They all have their own demons, but Jake's secret is one that he can't tell anyone.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus - World premiere
Paris, 1964. Alberto Giacometti, the celebrated artist, bumps into his old friend, a respected American critic, James Lord, and suggests that he sit for a portrait because he has an interesting face. Lord is flattered by the request, but as the days go by and turn into weeks and weeks seemingly with no end in sight, he realises his entire life has been hijacked by the erratic genius. The portrait continues to ebb and flow. Veering between frustration and joy, Lord ultimately sees logic in the artist's chaotic mind and witnesses Giacometti complete one of his last masterpieces.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Out of Competition - World premiere
A comedy wrapped around a tragedy, which unfolds in real time in a house in London in the present day. Janet is hosting an intimate gathering of friends to celebrate her promotion to Shadow Minister of Health in the party of opposition. Her husband, Bill, seems preoccupied. As their friends arrive, some of whom have their own dramatic news to share, the soirée gradually unravels. An announcement by Bill provokes a series of revelations that rapidly escalate into all-out confrontation. As people’s illusions about themselves and each other go up in smoke, along with the canapes, the party becomes a night that began with champagne but ends with blood on the floor.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentation
Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people.
The film’s story unfolds within that great House. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite; Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi, converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day.
The film examines these events through the prism of a marriage - that of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten, and a romance, that between a young Hindu servant, Jeet, and his intended Muslim bride, Aalia. The young lovers find themselves caught up in the seismic end of Empire, in conflict with the Mountbattens and with their own communities, but never ever giving up hope.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Out of Competition - World premiere
