Projects with status: Complete

Synopsis

Two brothers embark on a worldwide journey to discover what it's like for other siblings living with Down's syndrome.
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2021 - World premiere

Synopsis

Among the narrow streets of contemporary Naples, HIDE AND SEEK follows four years in the life of nine-year-old Entoni and his grandmother Dora during a critical state crackdown on crime that threatens Entoni's future with forced removal and imprisonment.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Documentary Competition - World premiere

Synopsis

An exhausted couple stop at a diner in the early hours of the morning in the middle of nowhere. Their journey tells a tale of sadness, but what really happened? We begin to understand that the situation they're in is far from ordinary.

Synopsis

As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere

Synopsis

From the confines of her home in England, a filmmaker embarks on a digital quest to track down an old friend who disappeared years ago in Japan. With the internet as her only resource, she stumbles upon ‘The Inquirers’, a website full of souls looking for lost people. As she gets closer to finding her friend, she finds herself wondering why it is so hard to forget about some people, and, equally, why is it often necessary to let them go. IN THE SPACE YOU LEFT is a film about the meaning of missed connections in the digital age.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc Fest 2021 - UK Competition - World premiere

Synopsis

The first feature documentary entirely in Scottish Gaelic, IORRAM (BOAT SONG) is an immersive and poetic portrait of life in the Outer Hebrides, as the islands and the language face an uncertain future.

Archive sound recordings of ghostly voices, stories and songs from the last century are mixed with stunning footage of daily life in the islands today, on land and sea, to create a lyrical and playful dialogue between past and present, and between sound and vision, set to an original score composed and performed by award-winning folk musician Aidan O’Rourke.

IORRAM began as an experiment to make a cinematic film entirely composed from archive sound and contemporary moving images. The sound archive at the heart of this project contains over 30,000 pieces of previously untranslated and largely unheard Scottish Gaelic recordings, representing a treasure trove of cultural history and memories which deserve to be heard.

Making documentaries from archive film footage is a long established practice, but there are also vast riches in sound archives around the world, which are gradually being digitized and restored, and represent a valuable resource for filmmakers interested to explore the relationship between past and present, and between the ears and the eyes. If cinema has historically prioritized vision over sound, IORRAM marks an ambitious effort to redress the balance, and provide audiences with a new and deeply satisfying kind of cinematic experience.

Synopsis

Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
Official Selection Vienna Shorts Film Festival 2022

Synopsis

Imprisoned in child detention, Jacob finds himself alone and desperate to reach the outside world. Help from an unlikely source gives his predicament an even weirder twist.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK Or Mine?

Synopsis

In this British folk horror, three siblings in a rural town stumble upon a local community centre and family secrets are unravelled.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Weird and Wonderful World

Synopsis

A cinematic insight into the world of Michelle Mansell, a cold, open-water swimming coach. Through her work Michelle gives people an effective way of regaining mental and physical health and shifting their perspective on how the world around them can heal.

Synopsis

A clip from the iconic 1999 science fiction film "The Matrix" becomes a much older silent movie with piano accompaniment, seen again in its own far future or where time no longer counts. The two lovers shift roles and even genders in the obscure cinematic space that contains them.

Synopsis

Based on a true story, a young boy questions the definition of marriage after seeing his mother's abusive relationship. Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Little Wings Film Festival 2021