Jasper races to the airport to stop the girl of his dreams from leaving and just makes the last train. As Jasper talks to a stranger about his romantic gesture though, doubts about what he's doing start to grow.
Two struggling writers believe they have finally sold one of their scripts for £100,000. They think they have made it. But it turns out to only be £1,000. After seeing a video of Ridley Scott online saying 'if you want to make movies just do it!' They decide to make the film themselves. They travel to the highlands of Scotland and meet a local girl and decide she would be perfect in the film. As they are writers they have no idea what they are doing. But do they succeed?
Secret agent Traveller (played by Vincent van Ommen) works for an organization known only as The Bureau. Having failed his last mission, Traveller is given one last chance with a cryptic objective: find the mysterious Sterns. On his journey, Traveller must contend with the ghosts of his past and mine his way through traps set by enemy operatives in his search for the answer to the ultimate question: who is Sterns?
Ultra-competitive salesmen, Tom and Raymond are up for the same promotion. When ruthless contract killer, Pierson comes on the scene it looks like they unwittingly hired the same hitman to take each other out.
A man is desperately knocking on the front door, in the hallway lies broken crockery and bottles. Steam from a whistling kettle begins to full the kitchen. The bathroom door is ajar and Niall is lying on the floor mumbling incoherently; we enter the world of a tormented soul.
Within the backdrop of a vibrant house party, Downing explores the complicated minefield of teenage sexuality as John, the isolated local gay lad, finds an opportunity to exact revenge on his straight oppressor, the popular and handsome Daniel.
From an unusual perspective, we follow Philip around his neighbourhood in Hackney, East London. He is unstable and misses his wife and daughter very much.
Tells the story of an eight-year-old boy who aspires to be a hero and embarks upon a journey to prove his greatness - with unexpected consequences. A moving insight into childhood where fantasy jostles with reality as a young boy’s imagination transforms and empowers everyday life.
For different reasons Darryl and Lilly have ended up sleeping rough in the back alleys of London. Over the course of an evening, they find themselves tangled in an escalating problem that they quickly need to diffuse.
"A polyphonic meditation on time and urban space" (Sukhdev Sandhu, BFI 2012).
"If you let it, a street will grow" says a voice in this film-poem which offers a lyrical, painterly defence of the everyday and a celebration of multiculturalism, even as it poses questions about the process of regeneration.
Shot on location in the London Borough of Hackney, the film interweaves rarely seen archive, super 16mm and super 8mm photography. Slow, still shots of streets, parks, cemeteries and markets are juxtaposed with the East London paintings of Leon Kossoff, Jock McFadyen and James MacKinnon.
With a script based on poet, Michael Rosen's play for voices, a heightened soundscape mixes documentary with poetry, music, song and location recordings. As we slip between past and present, real and imagined, famous and unknown "the world comes to Hackney": From Shakespeare in Shoreditch, to a Jamaican builder, from an 18th Century feminist abolitionist to a Turkish barber, from Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty" to the Jewish 43 Group taking on Oswald Mosley in Dalston, the audience is invited to apprehend the city as fragmentary and multi-layered, "past in the present, present in the past."
