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Synopsis

The music never had to be explained. For childhood friends Yoshiki and Toshl, forming their band X in 1982 was a way of living through music. Soon they were selling out international stadiums by perfecting their own style of amps-to-11 glam rock dubbed “psychedelic violence crime of visual shock” (imagine Iron Maiden with a David Bowie spirit animal) and connecting with millions of fans.
Their journey to play Madison Square Garden amidst a Beatlemania-shaped maelstrom is expertly captured by director Stephen Kijak and editors Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin, who dismantle the kitsch and dig into the cult of personality to reveal a story of misfortune and tragedy that has shadowed the band time and again. Just as it is for their fans, music becomes a lifeblood for X Japan, as they are forced to reinvent and regroup in order to survive. Cameos by artistic giants including Marilyn Manson and David Lynch mark some memorable moments in this roller-coaster musical experience. (Sundance Film Festival brochure)
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Sonic Strand

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Based on a true story. 11 year old Urban’s been running away from care since he was five, (six care home and eight foster homes in six years). He’s Britain’s most runaway child... When he can’t find his mum, he sleeps rough on the streets, or in a shed with other runaways 'The Shed Crew’. He’s never known a dad, just his mentally ill, addict mum, Greta. So when she meets Chop, the first decent bloke they’ve ever known, Urban feels hope for the first time.
For Chop, the once idealistic ex-social worker, it’s a chance of redemption. He takes the broken family in, helps Greta, teaches Urban and his brother Frank lessons in life. But the family’s new found happiness is all too fleeting as Greta’s propensity to self-destruct proves too strog, leaving Urban to cope with the fallout the only way he knows how…

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The woman in the yellow hat and the guy in the purple jumper might just be soulmates, but will they talk to each other or will they leave that crowded tube carriage never knowing what might have been….

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Tom Haddon is a genius. A formidable man who found a way to reverse Dyslexia in young children. His research into mind manipulation saved a generation from many forms of learning difficulties. But like most things in life the gain comes with a price.
Thirty years on and technology has evolved. Cars can drive themselves, PCs don’t exist and laptops are a rarity. Nobody has a mobile phone anymore; instead they wear a Virtual User Interface, sophisticated glasses known as VUI’s. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the hands free VUI’s augment your reality into whatever you desire.
Pippa Sutton lives her life in conflict. The Haddon family represent everything that she stands against. Yet Tom took her in and loved her as his own daughter after her mother died when she was just six years old.
The Haddon’s are implicated in the suicide of a Politician. Murder and violence dominate the headlines and Pippa’s own life is in danger. Her loyalties are torn apart, does she fight for what’s right or does she stand firm with the family she owes so much to?

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Tom Sanger has just lost his dream job at a London record company. As he leaves, fate intervenes and Tom finds himself trapped in a lift with the consultant who lost him his job. He'd really love to hate her... trouble is she's is French and beautiful.

Eloise Martin is uncomfortable being confined with a man she's sacked. But Tom's juvenile attitude helps her hide the embarrassment under a mask of contempt. Secretly, she's vulnerable, claustrophobic, and a little attracted, despite his rough edges. As the temperature in the lift begins to rise heat, so do the tempers.

Flash forward... five years. Tom and Eloise meet on London's South Bank. They've had a four-year relationship which ended six months earlier. Against the backdrop of a crisp Christmas evening Tom and Eloise amble towards the train station, reminiscing about their time together. Old memories evoke feelings both have tried to squash. Subtly they interrogate each's true motives for the meeting. Are there still shared feelings? Is Eloise's life as perfect as she makes out? And does Tom have a hidden agenda? If so, there's just 45 minutes to win Eloise back before she gets on her train and is gone forever.

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Gateshead, North East England. Chaim is a 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy. His mother has just remarried and he's not happy. 16-year-old Kayleigh has been kicked out of her house and has nowhere to go. When an incident forces them together, unexpected things happen. A bittersweet story about being different.

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Young TV actress and household celebrity Chloe Collins has quit the TV show that made her name and is making her stage debut in an offbeat production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé. Directed by a New York wunderkind fresh from a major Broadway success, and produced by an award-winning theatre company, the stakes are high, not just for Chloe.
The fact that she can't even seem to learn her lines doesn't exactly help. When she suffers a personal tragedy a week before opening night, the mounting media attention surrounding the project intensifies. Chloe has a lot to prove to a lot of people, right in the glare of the public eye.

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Two people who are seemingly ‘just good friends’ spend the day together.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Love Strand

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Captain Maurice Seddon, an inventor and eccentric in the great English tradition, made electrically heated clothing for ‘paraplegics, sclerotics, arthritics, rheumatics, the poor and landscape painters’. The details of his extremely modest, uncompromising way of life are here unpicked through a rich weave of incredible archival TV appearances from around the world (he featured on amongst others, the David Letterman show) plus very touching 16mm and mobile phone footage shot by friend and director William English. 'Heated Gloves' evokes Ben Rivers' 'Two Years at Sea' and the Maysles brothers' 'Grey Gardens', whilst highlighting the codes of television reportage and remaining in and of itself very special and unique – just like its subject. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Three couples get together for a boozy restaurant dinner, but the mild-mannered Dennis is more interested in checking the National Lottery results.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Laugh Strand

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Artist Tacita Dean, and actor Stephen Dillane presented a live theatrical happening performed over four nights at the 2014 Sydney Biennial, with two 16mm cameras rolling on each occasion. Dillane changed elements of his appearance each night and, snatching pages from Dean who was seated in the front row, recited Shakespeare, popular texts and personal stories, whilst also announcing adjustments in the camera set-ups and the changing of reels. Dean has returned to this tense scenario and cut into the material according to the systemic logic that emerged over the course of the serialised performance, inscribing changes in time and space, illustrating or actualising a form of deep choreography- LFF
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experiementa Strand

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"I think art is powerful and I think it has affected all of us in some way, shape or form. Whether it’s you’re favourite character or scene from a TV show or a film or a play. Or maybe it’s just a line in a song. Sometimes it’s a line that you’ve heard one hundred times and it’s only on the one hundred and first time it clicked and meant something to you. Sometimes it’s a line that grabbed your attention straight away. And that’s what 'Lines' is about." Cecile Emeke
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Sonic Strand - World premiere