Clydebank librarian Josie is all loved up and has found her soulmate in the equally besotted Mikey. Six months later, the bubble has burst and things are very different, as the country has plunged into a political crisis, there is civil unrest on the streets and normality is a distant memory. Welcome to the harsh, fast changing landscape of the real world.
18-year-old Anne explores body image self-perception and her understanding being a woman today in two different worlds: that of her traditionally "feminine" mother, Céline, at home; and the gym where she trains amongst like-minded people.
Official Selection Cannes 2019 - Critics Week
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020
This macabre fairy tale follows a lonely teenager who finds an abandoned camera and turns it on herself in her quest for companionship. Her controlling father, intent on preventing her happiness plays an unwitting role in her tragic fate.
The music, Blues in B-flat by Volker Heyn, performed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, provides the framework for 'The Oblique'. The title comes from an instruction in the score: ‘oblique down stroke’. In this film branches of magnolia extend into the empty cavity of the cello, the space where sound resonates.
A young boy, Joe, sits an exam he desperately doesn’t want to be in. His stream of conscience runs wild as his frustration grows. Joe eventually gives up on the paper, turning to his drawing to illustrate his thoughts on the unfairness of standardised examinations.
Haunted by the death of her classmate, Martha returns, ten years on, to their old meeting place. But as the memories of their relationship come flooding back, she must confront the tragic mystery that put an end to it.
When a tragic accident leaves Sarah grieving for her deaf partner Rob, she is forced to track down and engage with his estranged hearing father. To lay the man she loves to rest, Sarah must overcome a barrier far greater than language.
