Three generations of men in an Irish community: A father,
Eamon, haunted by his childhood decision not to pursue trials with Liverpool Football Club; his talented teenage son, who he pressures into taking a similar opportunity; and Eamon's estranged father, whose timely return to the fold sparks a plan.
A pathological gambling addict bets a group of cohorts he can drive backwards across Australia to his childhood home of Perth. This is an allegorical journey of a man whose life is going nowhere fast, until he puts his gear in reverse.
A young single mother leaves her six-year-old daughter in the care of an older woman when she leaves her small town in southern Italy to look for work in the north of the country.
Action/ biopic of the Bentley Boys - a group of wealthy British motorists who raced Bentley sports cars to fame and victory in the 1920s, and helped keep the brand's reputation for high performance alive.
In Toronto in the mid-1960s young Marian McAlpin lives in a safe, carefully built world which includes a promising career, a good circle of friends and marriage with her boyfriend, Peter. When a young, eccentric English student comes to town and challenges her way of living, she is forced to question everything she always thought she wanted.
An adaptation of 'The Edible Woman', the first novel by renowned Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood.
John is in prison. He claims he is wrongly convicted of a double murder. When he breaks out to clear his name he takes 16 year old Tessa hostage. John treats her kindly and Tessa begins to sympathize with her captor. But as the police close in, she begins to wonder if his claimed innocence is the truth or just the fantasy of a deranged killer.
Based on the forthcoming memoir by ex-AL Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy who was imprisoned for 400 days in Egypt’s Scorpion prison. A complex geopolitical web of score-settling left him caught in an extraordinary struggle on the path for freedom.
Sixteen-year-old Pema lives in the remote mountains of Tibet. For generations, her family has farmed their barley fields in peace. But when Pema’s father is taken away by the authorities, her world is shattered.
A Buddhist nun from the local nunnery walks into Pema’s life and invites her to join a group of locals escaping persecution by walking over the Himalayas, into India. Pema is torn: can she leave her mother, grandmother and younger siblings at this time of crisis? Has she the right, or the courage, to join her friend and seek a new life for herself? As Pema struggles with her dilemma, there is no news about her imprisoned father. The clock is ticking, for everyone.
A film about the price of freedom and who pays for it, told through the eyes of a teenage girl.
Shot entirely on location in the Himalayas with a non-professional cast, and made by filmmakers determined to give a voice to the oppressed of Tibet through a universal story about the love of parents for their children.
John Finch (Christian McKay, 'Me And Orson Welles'), is a renowned classical musician who has abandoned his marriage and career and fled to his holiday home in Provence, South of France to start a new life. Whilst waiting for the arrival of his younger lover, Sophia (Charlotte Vega), he makes the acquaintance of a mysterious young man, Peter (Harry Macqueen) who is passing through the small village John now calls home. Who Peter is and what he discovers will ultimately threaten to destroy all of their lives forever.
A beautiful but devastating tale of tangled love and memory. A contemporary romantic tragedy.
The film is the joint directorial debut of both Christian McKay (also lead actor) and Ben Hecking (also cinematographer).
