An unpleasant return to Das Institut für den reinen Tor, Menschheim, Germany, for a forgetful investigation into memory.
Restarring: Dr Forschung (incarcerated); Prof Suchen (in pseudonym); Fernando Pessoa (in 5 personas);
James Joyce (in multi-Finnegans).
"I have more than just one soul.
There are more I's than I myself.
I exist, nevertheless"
Alberto Caeiro
"I'm not who I have in memory
Nor who is in me now."
Fernando Pessoa
During the 1950s, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospital use globally. Using archival documents, filmmakers Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay look critically at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
JB, a troubled writer running to escape the pain of a toxic relationship, forms an unlikely bond with a drifter living in his car, leading him on a path of self-discovery.
Fifty years after THE WICKER MAN, director Robin Hardy’s lost papers come to his filmmaker son Justin. Enlisting his brother Dominic, they journey to discover the complex nature of independent filmmaking and fatherhood. Justin’s view of the film is tainted because it robbed him of his father, home and mother; Dominic is more distanced, his experience relating to its subsequent cult status. But what was Robin’s creative contribution to the iconic shocker? Fans may not always like what the brothers find but will come closer to understanding the evolution of a fantasy classic and the maverick director behind it.
Official Selection FrightFest 2024 - Word premiere
Created by and starring former Royal Marines Commandos, this adrenaline
fuelled thriller follows a war veteran seeking justice in a violent criminal
world. The film also offers a hard-hitting portrayal of PTSD.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
A musical drama about Justine and her mother, Tess.
A hospital CT scan reveals a lump in Tess's breast, prompting an emotional journey that challenges a mother and daughter's strained relationship.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Step inside the surreal world of a fading fast-food empire in this interactive adventure that mixes cinema and animation.
Whether you’re the ultimate foodie, a cinema buff or just someone who loves an unforgettable experience, SWEET DREAMS is set to be the surreal snack you can’t get enough of.
An immersive adventure that invites you to step into the world of the Real Good Chicken Company. Brought to you by award-winning artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, it mixes animation, cinema and interaction.
Enter the Real Good Chicken Company’s headquarters and let has-been mascot Chicky Ricky take you under his wing. With the fast-food empire on the brink of collapse, join Chicky Ricky on his quest to understand what people really want in this weird and wonderful journey into the food chain.
Become a worker in a cartoonish factory, a test subject in a department researching human appetite and a whole lot more as you journey through a series of different rooms charting the company’s glory days to their downfall.
A director in search of a subject for his documentary suffers various problems, with his project becoming more and more irrational. Is it an art film? A film within a film? Or just one big filmic nervous breakdown...
On 18 June 1984, at the height of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire became the site of the bloodiest day of the longest and most violent industrial dispute in British history. The media subsequently appeared to lay blame for the violence at the feet of the strikers. Daniel Gordon’s comprehensive documentary doesn’t just overturn this fabrication, it portrays what took place as planned action on the part of the Thatcher government, with the Prime Minister determined to seek redress for the National Miners’ Union’s victory over the Conservative government in the early 1970s and to forever break the union’s role at the heart of British working class society. Released on the 40th anniversary of the battle, and featuring first-hand accounts and archive footage, this is a searing portrait of that tragic event. (Sheffield DocFest Programme)
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 - World premiere
The story of Catholic nun and leading death penalty abolitionist, Sister Helen Prejean, whose story was first captured in the 1995 film DEAD MAN WALKING. Now, almost 30 years later, filmmaker Dominic Sivyer takes a look at six decades of the life and work of Sister Helen as she continues to be an inspirational force for justice.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Working with their team at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, Anya Neistat, a brilliant war crimes investigator, joins forces with Solomiia Stasiv, a young Ukrainian woman just entering the field. Together they document atrocities in the fight to bring Russian generals to trial and justice to the Ukrainian people.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
