The multiplicities of Black LGBTQ identities are carefully constructed and deconstructed, discarding the notion of a universal, homogenous experience of the world. Across two screens, parents stretch in gentle yoga poses with their child, a group of friends have a meal in someone’s home, a person vogues outside alone, and a couple hold hands in the back of a taxi. Small moments of affection that are a joy to witness.
Based on Pilvi Takala’s experiences during an intervention at Second Home, East London (a co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups). During the two week-long intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant, the founder of cutting-edge company 'Personnel Touch' who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand
An abstract crime thriller featuring a poodle, a beauty queen, and two sisters who aren't sisters. The film eschews conventional narrative in favour of a more dream-like montage.
Based on Gertrude Stein's eponymously named screenplay and featuring a close personal network of friends and influences as cast.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Following three transgender friends as they navigate some of the harsh realities of being trans in the UK, find their community, and dare to dream of a life without limitations. It's a coming of age story of friendship and hope, love and loss, strength and pride.
Jess wakes up one morning and finds everything has changed! Her boyfriend, Marcel acts strangely and ignores her. She tries to talk to him and even cheer him up but it does not work. Jess understands the shocking truth very soon.
Four women 'the wrong side of 25' on a hen weekend aboard a rented narrow boat make their way out of the city and into the countryside. A road trip, but at four miles an hour.
Claire (the Bride), Freda (Maid of Honour), Ama (missed out Maid of Honour) and Lola (up for an adventure) are supposed to be adults but feel far from it. They don't have their relationships or careers in the places they think they should be, and their weekend away slowly become a journey of discovery.
A comedy that's also a moving and candid portrayl of female friendship.
Daniel is a man without a home. Following a personal tragedy, he left his wife and job and drifted into a life on the street. Living in the shadows and surviving on the margins has taken it's toll. He desperately wants to find a way back to his former life. But guilt and shame are insurmountable obstacles.
Instead, he watches his wife from a distance, as she goes about her daily life. She is so close and yet belongs to another world. A world that he once shared with her.
His only companion is a dog called Bruno. They are inseparable. But after Daniel is assaulted one night, Bruno goes missing. As Daniel searches the city for Bruno, he comes across a young boy hiding alone in a dark playground. His name is Izzy. Izzy has his own problems. He has run away from home and has no intention of going back.
Over a single day and night, Daniel and Izzy search the streets of London for Bruno. Forming an emotional bond in the face of danger. Each step of their journey taking them closer to home and offering the possibility of redemption.
Young, struggling musicians Ray and Don are evicted from their South London squat. They take to the road in their old Volvo Amazon, planning to sell their prized vinyl record collection and fly to Memphis USA. However, when they fail to get the money needed, they steal a rare Black Metal record which seems to unleash dark forces that threaten their mission.
An intimate portrait of those dealing with their dead, supported during the ritual of care after death by a team of women who are ‘giving death back to the people’.
For nearly twenty years, a small team of women in Brighton have been changing the way people look after their dead. Supporting them to participate during the ritual of care after death and empowering all regardless of limited finances. Cara is passionate and believes in power to the people, challenging many of the accepted, traditional and often secretive ways of corporate funeral directors.
This relatively unknown work is part of an emerging movement confronting the way death is approached in modern Britain.
With extraordinary access, we follow three groups of people from the point of death of their loved one through to the ceremony.
