On a Friday night after a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special. That weekend, in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex, the two men get to know each other. It is a brief encounter that will resonate throughout their lives. 'Weekend' is both an honest and unapologetic love story between two guys and a film about the universal struggle for an authentic life in all its forms. It is about the search for identity and the importance of making a passionate commitment to your life.
20 WAYS takes an entertaining and intelligent look at immigration, using humor to explore this contemporary global issue. Inspired by an absurd US article that proposed twenty ways to spot illegals. 20 Ways looks at the danger of profiling through the experience of a Jewish family in 1930's Europe.
Following several tragic events, Jo and Amy attempt to come to terms with their new life as another Christmas in the care system approaches. Using audio interviews with brother and sister, Jo and Amy we listen to their memories as they deal with loss, separation and acceptance.
An up-beat comic extravaganza involving the family of
a football obsessed grandfather, a women's fitness centre manager and
mother, a dodgy car dealer and twin daughters lifeguards.
How well do you know yourself and those you love? Returning home from work, Mia witnesses an aged woman leap from a window. Scattered around the old woman’s broken, lifeless body Mia discovers shredded pieces from a beloved photograph of herself and her former lover Ludwig. Highly unnerved, Mia begs Max, the building's all-knowing custodian, to let her into the deceased woman’s flat. While inside this strangely familiar place, Mia recognizes the contents as her own. Confused and disturbed by what lies before her, she bolts back and forth in time where she is forced to realize it was her very own life that ended before her. Now, the only way to safeguard her future is to go back to her past and confront the man she loves deeply but dreads most.
In a small rural community of the remote Upper Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, two young sisters struggle with the onset of separation. As they try to make sense of their changing world we slowly discover a lost world where development threatens to tear the sisters apart.
A 13 year old girl in Salford craves the unconditional love of her own child, until one day and a fateful moment - she makes the decision to steal a baby.
This short film tells the story of Ash, a mixed-race girl from Old Trafford, Manchester, UK. On a youth referral scheme, we see Ash travel to the iconic Salford Lads Club where she takes up boxing as a way of dealing with her troubled past. By portraying Ash’s experience of the sport, the film highlights how the boxing ring can be a neutral space where race and neighborhood politics are left outside.
The film looks at not only Ash’s own experience of racism, but also the preconceptions she and others hold about other people and places.
Clench demonstrates how boxing can become the ultimate visual tool for communication between generations, highlighting that every person has a story to tell regardless of how they look.
Communion is a story of sibling love and rivalry, set during the violent period of the 1970s Troubles in Northern Ireland. Family man Michael feuds with his wayward, rebellious brother on the day of his little daughter’s Holy Communion. For 6-yr-old Anna, it may be the last time that she will see her Uncle Patrick.
The death of Isaac's father in suburban Sydney reveals a deep schism in his family and prompts his return to the family homeland and its deadly legacy.
In his parents' village in Greece, Isaac learns something of his father's cursed history. At first he dismisses the revelation as superstitious nonsense. But, over the course of his travels through Europe - from Greece to Paris to Budapest - Isaac is forced to confront the antisemitism of the past, the bigotry embedded deep in the bones of Europe and the nature of inherited guilt and secrets.
