Projects with status: Complete

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A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures in this groundbreaking depiction of
second-generation experience in 1970s London. Horace Ové's PRESSURE, Britain's first Black feature film, now restored by the BFI National Archive.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 and Official Selection New York Film Festival 2023 - joint Restoration World premiere

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Digitally restored new version of the exciting and insightful documentary on the life of 1970s World Champion racing driver, Jackie Stewart.

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An animation, in Richard Swarbrick's signature style, to mark Lionel Messi's fourth consecutive Ballon D'Or win.

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A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.life.

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A young woman who has recently finished university is working a dead-end office job whilst looking for 'the one'. Why can't she find the man of her dreams?

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Some rum parenting advice from the innovative Larkins Studio in this cinema commercial, based on the drawings of the much-loved Ronald Searle
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Restoration World premiere

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British filmmaker John Akomfrah imagines the lives of a black man and woman who appear in a sixteenth-century drawing by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer (TIFF 2012).

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Side by Side explores, with refreshing honesty, the unique bond between a brother and a sister. Facing the rest of their childhood apart, they runaway in search of the only person who can keep their family together.

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In the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, a mother prepares a feast to celebrate the release of her eldest son from prison. The family's youngest son goes on the hunt for the one ingredient they can’t afford, encountering his neighbours' varying positions on the recent uprisings. With compassion and gripping realism, Reem Morsi gives voice to the emotional legacy of this historic event (TIFF 2012).

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British filmmaking showed much of its potential in this extraordinary production chronicling the boyhood experiences of Billy, whose expectations lead no further than following his brother into the pit when he reaches manhood. Written off by his teachers and often neglected at home, his future is pre-determined. Then Billy finds and trains a young kestrel and through his care and respect for the bird, we begin to see qualities in Billy that the world cannot allow to be recognised.

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Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2018 - Cannes Classics

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All aboard the psychedelic steam engine! After finishing 'Yellow Submarine', Heinz Edelmann and friends produced this stunning promo for the Cambridge Animation Festival.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Restoration World premiere