Hanna has been growing up in the forest, far away from civilisation. Her father has raised her and taught her everything she needs to know – hunting, fighting, killing. Now, at 14, she wants and has to face the world to finally find out who she really is.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Berlinale Series - World premiere
Haruspex is suggestive of dark human secrets. The child makes a spirit guide that turns bad. In adulthood she understands that she is a mammal. She sees with creature’s eyes. The film employs the tropes of the uncanny to evoke a feeling of disquiet. The story is deliberately ambiguous, implicit of something that ought to remain hidden.
Between 2011 and 2015 UK adventurer Sarah Outen traversed the globe. For her expedition London2London: Via The World, Sarah was the engine, travelling by bike, kayak and rowing boat across Europe and Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and finally the Atlantic.
Sarah’s incredible four-year odyssey saw her travel over 20,000 miles. As she migrated between cultures, climates and landscapes under her own power, Sarah’s inspirational voyage was followed by thousands, hooked on her infectious humour and love of life.
But travelling mostly solo, the trip took its toll, and the punishing elements, ticking clock and months of solitude pushed Sarah to the physical and mental brink. Woven out of hundreds of hours of footage from the expedition, Home intimately and unflinchingly captures Sarah’s journey: the kindness of strangers, the wonders of the wild, the savagery of the elements, the near-death experiences, the demons of her emotional trauma and PTSD, and her discovery of love for a farmer called Lucy.
Home is a story of heart and soul, of hardship and joy, and one woman’s trek towards true emotional acceptance.
An immigrant Iranian news anchor works for a Persian TV channel in UK. His nude pictures are going viral on social media and he is trying to remove them.
A real life "superhero", a YouTuber and a camgirl explain why they choose to share -or hide- their chronic illnesses online. When you're too ill for IRL, where do you turn?
After the death of his young daughter, Dr Thomas Dunn is a man who has lost his way in life. Yet, on this day he wakes to discover that Mandy, his loving wife is finally pregnant again. Maybe this is their chance to move away from the tragedy of the past and for him to find his spark again.
However, also on this day, a large alien mother-ship appears in the heavens and the people of earth are plagued with horrifying visions. When Tom and his patients are torn away from the world, they are forced to face some harsh truths that will change their lives and the human race forever.
And as the mother-ship launches a massive attack on the towns and cities of Earth, Tom must search his past for the answer to save the human race from the destruction that is coming.
The battle lines are drawn and the final stance for Earth is about to begin...
An exploration of love and isolation in the technological age.
In the fraught lead up to Emmy and Samatha’s wedding Josh (Emmy’s brother) finds himself dumped and homeless and sleeping on his best mate Niall’s floor. As Niall tries to coax Josh out of his dark place and back into the dating world they both miss the fact that Emmy is having second thoughts about marriage.
As the wedding draws closer Emmy gets more confused, Niall tries to sleep his way out of loneliness and Josh finds solace in an unexpected and destructive place.
A highly focused athlete is out on a routine training run along an isolated undercliff path when he receives a world-shattering phone call from his concerned Mum who is watching "the biggest event in human history" unfold live on TV.
'Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine' concerns affective relations and community building. The film is like a spell or a promise for a new and more liberating type of family structure. The film has a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
In the process of creating this new work, Rosalind Nashashibi questions how a group’s sense of commonality is dissolved when there is an absence of communal experience and adherence to linear time. Through an open-ended discussion of space and time travel in the film, which is in part inspired by the creation and dissolution of group relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Shobies’ Story” (1990), Nashashibi explores new modes of conviviality, considering the absence of the nuclear family structure without an imperative model in sight.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - International premiere
To escape the spectres of a traumatic experience, Tom strikes up a friendship with a younger boy. However, it pulls him into places and memories he’s desperate to forget.
SILENCE is a study of abuse and PTSD, reminding that some things are too big to tackle alone. And that’s okay.
