When she was seven, Misha Defonseca escaped the Nazis, crossed Europe on foot, lived with wolves and endured unimaginable hardship in search of her deported parents. Her Holocaust memoir took the world by storm and a Hollywood studio came knocking. But a fallout with her publisher who turned detective, revealed Misha’s story as an audacious deception created to hide an even darker truth.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere
An elderly man meets a young woman in a café, and the deal that follows will alter their lives forever. NED AND ME explores the complexity of euthanasia and human transactions.
In a dystopian Britain flooded by climate change, Arya is raised as a militant racist on an isolated island. When a mixed race stranger arrives, she sees the monstrous truth of her world through his eyes. Arya must decide between freedom and justice, and the only home she’s ever known.
Dr Langdon is about to leave work, when she is struck from behind. She wakes in a room with several dead bodies and a lone 'survivor' who can't remember who he is or why he's here. Can she figure out the truth? Or will she run out of time?
Plants were used in 1970s suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours, or so rumour has it. What went on behind closed curtains? This hybrid documentary explores the truth in the botanical myth.
A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend.
A daughter tries to mend her fractured relationship with her father but his attitudes create more complications than she had expected. An intriguing mix of stop-motion animation and interviews reveal a family’s mythology and complex family dynamics.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - World premiere
Encounters Film Festival 2021 - UK Student Award - winner
Veteran explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who spent weeks in a coma battling Covid-19, says the healing power of nature helped to save his life.
This film follows this extraordinary 84-year-old as he climbs the highest hill in Cornwall in a quest to raise £100,000 for Royal Cornwall Hospital's healing garden.
Peter Bromley's new documentary is on the artist Clare French. The film highlights French's unique working art practice in her Thamesmead based studio. Interviews with French explain how her art comes together and why. Clare’s reductive, monochrome practice considers the constructed, protean nature of human systems of meaning.
Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021
BAFTA Film Awards 2021 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation
Edgar Wright (BABY DRIVER, HOT FUZZ) directs a loving, hilarious and career-spanning look at the brothers Mael, 50 years and 25 albums deep into a career that has seen them traverse more genres, audiences and career revivals than any artist could have endured alone.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere
Set and filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, this artist film is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie. Historical individuals from Taiwan, China and Britain question, fail to understand, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie in-situ.
