A hawk, a chicken, a rat, a tree, a departed father, his struggling daughter and her distant child who has recently returned home. Within each body lies the reflections of all others.
After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin. Once so similar, their paths were separated by war. As they piece together memories of Syria, they begin to wonder - 'What happened to our family?'
Official Selection Berlinale 2022 - Generation 14plus - Crystal Bear Award
As our world strains under the weight of unprecedented global migration and colonial extraction, this animated virtual reality documentary immerses participants in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
CHILD OF EMPIRE takes audiences through a deeply personal perspective of this epic historical event. Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere
DAWTA has a power she is unaware of, until she is propelled through time and space to a utopian planet. Inspired by family history of trans-racial fostering and concepts of inherited trauma, DAWTA is a story of escaping the past through the imagining of an unknown future, an unknown hope.
For over a decade William has been living with a debilitating condition that has forced him to retreat from society and live in isolation, removed from modern technology. Electric Malady is an intimate window into William’s isolated world and a moving depiction of a family, devoted to finding a way to save their son. Isolation is something that we can all relate to now, having lived through strict lockdowns. Many of us struggled, but imagine how much more difficult it would be to be forced into isolation by an affliction that the world does not recognise?
We follow William’s contemporary story, whilst archive clips from William’s own private video diaries and family home movies provide a window into his intricate life journey.
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2022 - Nordic Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2022 - People & Communities
A highly emotive, visual feast set in the imaginative mind of a heartbroken panda named Herbie, who has broken up with his deer girlfriend Rice. Through Herbie's art we delve back through the memories of his relationship from the heart-breaking end to the beautiful beginning.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - Virtual Reality Competition
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2022
An animated short film on "invisible conditions" and the experiences of those affected – it features the voices of Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Outlander), Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Man Down, Damned), Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You, Bad Education, Sliced), and members and friends of the NPUK/INPDA community.
This project has been developed closely with the charity's community in order to illustrate the many emotions and challenges an individual with an invisible condition can face on a daily basis. By using a mixture of animation, photography, and narrated lines read by stars from both outside and inside of our community, the film hopes to raise awareness of both Niemann-Pick disease(s) and invisible conditions more broadly...as "not all that you can see, is everything that is there"…and there are far more similarities than differences when it comes to the lived experiences of those affected by rare, genetic and/or invisible conditions.
Narrated by Emilia Fox, THE BEACHCOMBERS is a debut short film by Kakapo Arts Ltd. Based on a poem by Jon Lawrence, it tells the story of Bronwyn (Bronnie) who, having lost her father as a child, returns home to search for her father’s true legacy.
Three sisters move through public/political space - a square, bridge, garden and hill- in this exploration of Black diaspora. Starting at empty carnival/parade routes in London, United Kingdom and Nassau, Bahamas, the film reflects on progress, the architectural histories of colonialism, and the female body in public space.
