Orson Welles trained as an artist before he become an actor and director, and continued to draw and paint throughout his career - character sketches, storyboards, set designs, pictures of the people and places that inspired him. These artworks are a sketchbook of his life, and most have never been seen outside his family and close friends.
For the first time, award-winning director Mark Cousins has been granted access to this treasure trove of imagery, to make a film about what he finds there - the story of Welles' visual thinking, never before told. An exclusive new perspective on one of the 20th century's greatest creative figures, whose art and life continue to fascinate audiences today.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2018 - Cannes Classics - World premiere
The Grandisons family rarely come together, but when they do, it usually descends into chaos.
Set over the course of one summer's day, this bitter and abusive family, collide as their deepest, darkest secrets of adultery, blackmail, and violence erupt. The unity of the family solely depends on each member's moral compass and how they choose to deal with the revelations. As the sun sets, only time will have told if the day has made or broken the Grandisons.
Believing in an impending doomsday flood unleashed by the melting glaciers, Nicholas attempts suicide in a Scottish Loch, only to be miraculous saved from below. Enlightened, Nicholas teaches his doctrine to his niece, Seren. When her faith starts to waver, Nicholas leads her to the Loch to restore it to her.
Confronted with the alarming possibility of his niece’s rebellion, a fanatical believer sets into motion a chain of dark events that he believes will spare her from the impending apocalyptic doom.
A coming-of-age drama following a daughter, her mother and her wayward younger brother as their relationship reaches critical mass.
A portrait of modern Britain seen through the eyes of a family in crisis which shines a spotlight on issues affecting marginal communities, including young carers, mental illness and national identity.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
A young woman grows body parts in her garden; an occupation that becomes stranger when she realises there is something peculiar lurking beneath the soil.
In a steampunk future, the life of a pampered gentleman is seamlessly automated by machines, but his orderly existence is thrown into chaos when he chooses to pursue a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.
Francis leads his life resolutely on the margins, an existence that is by turns solitary, feral and lawless. When his estranged teenage son, Julian, turns up on his doorstep one day, the two of them are forced into an uneasy relationship together. Then Francis’ sometime girlfriend Carole appears on the scene. Her presence is a bulwark against his fiery temper and slowly, tentatively, she draws out of him a faith in the world again as the three of them strike up an unlikely rapport. Carole is called away to continue a tour of Belgium with her band and father and son revert to youthful reverie, wandering freely in the Sussex hinterlands. But this gives way to something darker when Julian breaks a promise by taking a friend into the woods. An accident occurs that puts father and son under the authorities’ spotlight in a blink and they are forced to make a decision which will change their lives forever.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
Sophia, a blind musician, hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers and finds herself careering down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - International premiere
Toby, a once idealistic young film student who has turned into an arrogant publicist, libidinous and jaded, comes across a copy of his old student film based on 'Don Quixote'. He is horrified by the terrible effects the film has had on the quiet village where it was set.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection - Closing Film - World premiere
