A film about fitting in, falling out, getting lost and getting back on track - telling the story of four very different but equally socially awkward people as they heroically muddle through life.
Alf finds other people difficult to read. He lives in a world of his own; everyone else is an alien. With meaning so often lost in translation, Alf stumbles into friendship before falling head over heels in love.
Josie is a dreamer. Having recently graduated from Art School she now finds herself drifting, searching for answers but asking all the wrong questions.
Alison is stuck in her lonely habits. In a small town, it is too easy to keep going over all ground. She makes the same mistakes time and again.
Tony is a hapless romantic. Twice married and seeking a new companion, he lets the need for approval stand in the way of true love.
This is a story of hope - how you never know when a chance meeting or coincidence will change your life for the better. It's about the magic of moments and the influence we each have on each other, often without knowing it.
Bella, a struggling disabled actor, takes on her most challenging role teaching an up and coming Hollywood A-lister how to "act disabled". Struggling with the line between reality and fantasy she begins to question the world around her.
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles who must decide yearly which one of them will ascend to the 'Heaviside Layer' and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hugely successful T.S. Eliot-inspired musical 'Cats'
Using a visual rich balance of documentary and animation KINGS OF SUMAVA poetically explores the duality of hero, villain and reunites former Czech immigrant Vlasta Bukovsky and Czech people smuggler Josep Hasil. The infamous boarder guard who lead those who needed to leave communist Czechoslovakia through the mountains of Sumava and to freedom. Due to the communist regimes failed attempts to catch Josef his family were imprisoned for over 180 years.
a ROLE to PLAY brings together the lived experiences and dreams of Bolsover residents, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England. The film tells stories of the impact of economic changes in a post-industrial Derbyshire constituency where coal was once king.
An inquiry into proximity and empathy, explored through the working life of a care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three young adults with severe physical disabilities and autism.
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time.
Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line.
'Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story' tells the time-travelling tale of this mystical musician and vocalist, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.
Capturing five decades of relentless musical output and shifting manifestations of gender and sexual identity, set against a backdrop of profound social change, the film celebrates the unpredictable rhythms of life.
A lullaby to soothe those souls struggling to find their place in the world.
People Meeting in a Room reflects on collective film making and workers’ activism, connecting the histories of activists and film makers associated with the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre in the 1980s with a group of contemporary collaborators who interpret archival films and collective actions through animation, performance and conversation.
Made in and around Thrapston, a market town in Northamptonshire, The Great Bear explores narratives of labour and landscape in the English Midlands. Intensified by its focus on the young, activities and subjectivities of work entwine with patterns of seasonal change, the landscape both source and product of working life.
A dreamlike montage of a woodland, a dog and a search in twilight. The Search evokes the intensity of searching for a cadaver, where a dog trained to seek out the scent of decomposition takes us on a hunt around a wild landscape.
An allegorical story of the dividing line between reality and unreality, NUCLEAR is about a young girl losing the protection of her mother, forced to navigate a hostile world alone.
Following an act of violence committed by her own brother, Emma escapes with her mother to wild, open country, where they find refuge in an isolated retreat in the shadow of a nuclear power station. Fearful that her brother will return to continue his act of violence, Emma has to confront her own ghosts and her own guilt in order to be free of her toxic family.
Official Selection Warsaw Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
