The Firm is based on the Alan Clarke's original 1989 classic which focused on UK football hooligan culture, where gangs were known as firms and members were described as casuals due to their uniform of designer clothing. Dom is an aspiring casual who gets drawn into the charismatic but dangerous world of the firm's leader, Bex.
In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge, an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied.
Moved by his passionate plea, head teacher Jane Obinchu supports his struggle to gain admission and together they face fierce opposition from parents and officials.
Full of vitality and humour, the film explores the remarkable relationships Maruge builds with his classmates some eighty years his junior. Through Maruge's journey, we are taken back to the shocking untold story of British colonial rule fifty years earlier where Maruge fought for the freedom of his country.
The First Grader is a heart warming and inspiring tale of one man's fight for what he believes is his right in order to overcome the burdens of his past.
Some people are beyond help when it comes to meeting someone. An American Pie meets Male Bridget Jones.
Jamie, age 29 going on 12, loser, virgin, stumbles upon a group of misfits who meet every week above a pub in order to discover the secrets of love, relationships and finding the perfect partner. The Flirting Club. Is it the answer to what he is searching for?
Jamie has one month to meet a real girl otherwise he has to marry Laura 'the human pig' from next door. Inadvertently hampered by his best mate Bill, stuck with a schoolboy infatuation with his Hot Boss, two left feet and zero pulling skills an accidental encounter with his local flirting club, might just hold all the answers. The group of six, thirty-something singles and Miriam, their teacher who has an unusual approach to flirting success, seem unlikely to succeed. But as everyone knows the course to true love is never easy and the gang of misfits soon learn that getting it right is more about being yourself then trying to be someone else.
Karen (Archie Panjabi) is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman (Christopher Eccleston). Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He makes a claim that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill long forgotten dreams and ambitions. But is Karen prepared to pay the price?
Victor’s an ageing actor, famous for his TV butler from years ago. Desperate for a comeback, he's secured an audition for a London gangster film, by 'superstar' director Eddie Brick. Little does Victor know, he's in for a series of humiliations that will test how badly he wants the role.
Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken Council estate in London, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and ultimately abandoned by social services, his life was never his own.
Even after he was put into care, he found himself on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'.
Yet Kevin survived to make a better life for himself. This is his heartbreaking and inspiring true story.
The Calvin family win a cereal competition and an all expenses paid scuba diving trip to an idyllic countryside lake. Whilst diving there's an unexplained catastrophic event and they are the only survivors - or so they think.
The Last Breath is a surreal, breath-taking excursion into the dark heart of family life.
A film set in a Glasgow protestant community on the day of an orange march telling the story of a young boy who is desperate to be part of a local gang.
While their fathers march through the decaying streets of Glasgow their sons take a sinister journey into the dark heart of modern Britain.
Duty, Service, Glory - The Last Regal Kingsize reveals the reality behind belonging is betrayal.
A groundbreaking synthesis of ethnographic study, real-life characters and hypnotic music and photography. This poetic but unsentimental short is the first drama from acclaimed documentary-maker Simon Hipkins.
The stories of three individuals, a bomb disposal expert, a young boy and an elderly woman, as they each take the brave steps towards a life-defining moment.
Peter, a young location scout, visits an abandoned Victorian mansion looking for a setting for a horror film. He meets Thomas, the mansion's enigmatic caretaker, and with him discovers far more than a scary old building.
