Projects

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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...

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Divided by barriers and borders, the three sisters confront their childhood after spending decades apart in culturally and politically diverging countries. For all of them, one moment in life determined everything that followed.
An emotionally revealing essay film.

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Two strangers meet on a night out in London. After sharing a strong connection, their time together takes a disconcerting turn.

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As the years go by
Our friendship will never die
You're gonna see it's our destiny
You've got a friend in me
Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2024

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A creative biography of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life. In May 1949, this leading representative of the modernist St. Ives group of artists climbed to the top of the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland, an experience which was to transform the way she saw the world. She spent the rest of her life capturing its shapes and colours, indeed its very essence. In his essayistic portrait Cousins delves into complex themes of gender, climate change and creativity, while laying bare the artist’s character and vast imagination so pervasively that he creates the impression we are seeing the world through her eyes.
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024

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Marmar listens to the stories told by her grandmother’s friends as they play an illicit game of cards. Based on childhood memories and shared stories, AND GRANNY WOULD DANCE is a tale of love, grief and resilience. At its heart, it is a tribute to the solidarity of Iranian women.
Official Selection Palm Springs International ShortFest 2024 - World premiere
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2024 - Best Short Animation Audience Award - Winner
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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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

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Filmed over the course of five years, this award-winning film follows Borja, a young boy growing up in Castellon, a small town in Spain, where the tradition of bullfighting weighs heavily on his shoulders.
His grandad, Matias, pins his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming a professional bullfighter onto his grandchild with the hopes that it will get the family out of poverty.
Like most underprivileged kids feeling trapped in a life with few choices and opportunities, Borja doesn’t see a future beyond orange fields, fishing and bullfighting.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 International First Feature Competition - World premiere
Sheffield DocFest 2024 - Winner - Grand Jury Award for the International First Feature Competition

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A new feature-length documentary depicting the extraordinary and emotional return of blur, captured across a year in which the band made a surprise return with their first record in 8 years, the critically acclaimed #1 album ‘The Ballad of Darren’. The film follows the unique relationship of four friends and band mates of over three decades - Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree - as they come together to record 10 new songs ahead of their sold-out, first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in 2023.
Official selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 - World premiere

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After the death of their parents, four siblings revisit their childhood home in Oxfordshire to tidy up before the house is sold. The old house creaks as the heirs rummage through every room. The house itself looks like a cross between the sets of Downton Abbey, Harry Potter and a BBC documentary on English gardening – charming, enchanting, a little creepy and maybe even cursed. Esoteric collections, antique furniture, paintings and, not least, a shared past, spill out of the cabinet of curiosities. Here, reality and fantasy have lived side by side. With each treasure they pack away, a new page in the story of an eccentric family are revealed. The mother, a passionate scientist, and the father, a dragon-obsessed art historian, filled their children with a mixture of made-up science and fabulous adventures. As the summer progresses and the old house is emptied, the four adult siblings must revisit the distant land of childhood together.
Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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KLITSCHKO: MORE THAN A FIGHT offers viewers unprecedented access to former heavyweight boxing world champion Vitali Klitschko, along with his brother Wladimir, who together dominated the sport for more than a decade. Now the longest serving Mayor of Kyiv, this feature-length documentary charts Vitali’s journey from the ring to political office, ultimately leading the defence of the capital when it was attacked by Russian forces in February 2022.
While Wladimir uses his celebrity status and popularity to help raise funds and military support for the defence of Ukraine, the heart of the story is the remarkable transformation of Vitali from sporting hero to political figurehead. From the face of the opposition in the 2014 Maidan Revolution to the mayor running on an anti-corruption card, Vitali tests his leadership capabilities as he’s put in charge of the safety of millions of Kyiv citizens, with the eyes of the world watching.
Official selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 International Competition - World Premiere

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What if every thought was a movement, and every movement a thought? What is intelligence and when is it artificial? Can robots dance? Can they help our children learn how to be? How are we learning, and do we ever stop? What are the values and skills that we pass on as societies through games, crafts, stories and cinema?
Connecting scenes of pedagogy, work and play in four global sites, THE HEXAGONAL HIVE AND A MOUSE IN A MAZE invites viewers to consider the mechanics of learning. We search in the cabinets of a supercomputer, in the curve of a chalked letter, in the weaving of a basket. We jump down the rabbit hole and seek counsel from researchers and public intellectuals.
Curiosity and the affordances of the essay form send us grazing, observing, and thinking through film with an open heart. We wonder afresh what the human spirit might yet dream up as new and improved programming for our species.
Official selection Sheffield DocFest 2024 International Competition - World premiere