An eight year-old tomboy challenges gender expectations when forced to make an Easter Bonnet with the girls. Then, when confronted with a family with two mums, she begins to question traditional family dynamics. Bravely subverting convention, her vivid imagination and resourcefulness leads her on a journey of discovery around her neighbourhood that will have radical and far reaching effects.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand
A tormented and neglected twelve year old finds solace watching violent spaghetti western movies. When she finds an antique pistol in her late father's belongings she decides to stand up to her tormentors, just like her gun-slinging heroes.
An aspiring yet dispirited dancer develops an odd relationship with an obscene phone caller. Together they discover an impassioned interest in self-amputation
Ari, a sophisticated and urbane gay man, moves into a care home and encounters Beau, the beautiful, heterosexual, illiterate former thief who is now his carer. Their unlikely meeting changes the future for both of them.
A family of Irish Travellers come to England to find work. Joining their uncle in his driveway business they surf soup kitchens to pick up homeless men. Enslaved and forced to work, with little food and no money there's little chance of escape until a young newcomer arrives.
When a wealthy Oxford businessman is found dead beside a river in Oxfordshire, his daughter suspects he was murdered, The police disagree. She hires a private detective to investigate.
The detective, a disgraced ex-police officer, is drawn into a dark world existing in the underbelly of England's most revered city of learning.. a secret dark sexual interior. Little does he realize, each step forward takes him closer to a past which haunts him.
A ghost story and a puzzle which slowly reveals itself before exploding into a stunning revelation. Written, produced, and directed by self-funding writer: mol smith (a true Independent Brit, Film maker).
A film about the women who confounded ideas of what was appropriate or expected, and got involved in science in Victorian England. This is the story of Vanessa Kentworth and the rain.
Based on true events and the work of the British Rainfall Organisation.