Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis and under heavy assault both from his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, as well as the fierce bullies in the schoolyard.
In a last, desperate attempt to ‘sort him out’, his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No 2), with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present. Sequel to East is East, West is West is the coming of age story of both 15 year old Sajid and of his father, 60 year old George Khan.
Anna (Dervla Kirwan) has that feeling again. The same feeling she had when her husband had that affair. Is he doing it again? With reluctant daughter Sam (Holly Gibbs) in town, Anna follows her intuition across London to discover the truth.
A dark and moving tale of injustice and deception, Who’s afraid of the Water Sprite? unfolds the intertwined fates of a young girl, a Blacksmith and a malevolent Water Sprite.
In front of his house, in between furniture and traces of his past life, a man waits. A young couple arrives and awkward, superficial conversation takes place, but the unlikely threesome experience something deeper, something emotional. The strange encounter ends in a dance of unexpressed loneliness and despair.
Rose is a beautiful, quick-witted con-artist, who makes a killing selling fake paintings. But when she scams an art loving gangster, he sets Europe’s most efficient and expensive assassin on her tail.
Enter Victor Maynard. He sets out on the assignment with his usual lethal professionalism. Yet every time Victor has Rose in his sights something holds him back. Entranced by the spirited Rose, Victor spares her life and becomes her protector, accidently acquiring a young apprentice into the bargain.
Now on the run, Victor has to fight both his feelings for Rose and the murderous attentions of 'the second most expensive' assassin, sent to finish off all three of them.
You're the Stranger Here is a story about a middle-aged woman with a crazy leg. She lives in a fascist regime where people with her condition get shot on the spot. Inspired by the courageous death of one of her fellow sufferers, she goes on an all or nothing quest to change the world, falling in love with her executor in the process.
1974; against the social and political backdrop of a violent Miner's strike a teenage artist in a Northumbrian village falls in love with the new girl from London but their tempestuous relationship causes him to betray his family and community and he is forced to choose between his old friends and his new love.
Young Hearts Run Free is a soulful mix of cool romance and gritty social drama.
Ivan is an old Yugoslavian farmer whose house is in Italy and whose fields cut across the border with Slovenia. One day a Yugoslavian girl arrives at his door asking for shelter. Ivan decides to open his door to Marija and their lives change from then on.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes.
