An intimate portrait of those dealing with their dead, supported during the ritual of care after death by a team of women who are ‘giving death back to the people’.
For nearly twenty years, a small team of women in Brighton have been changing the way people look after their dead. Supporting them to participate during the ritual of care after death and empowering all regardless of limited finances. Cara is passionate and believes in power to the people, challenging many of the accepted, traditional and often secretive ways of corporate funeral directors.
This relatively unknown work is part of an emerging movement confronting the way death is approached in modern Britain.
With extraordinary access, we follow three groups of people from the point of death of their loved one through to the ceremony.
A canine comedy set in 21st century London following the adventures of the eldest siblings Dylan and Dolly, their mum and dad, and 97 younger brothers and sisters.
Featured episode WALKIES ON THE WILD SIDE - After Dolly teases Dylan for being too domestic, Dylan is determined to show her he can be wild and enlists Fergus the Fox to bring out his inner wolf.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - TV Films Competition
When Dan, a gay 20-year-old student, and his best friend Ray decide to share their joint with a couple boys in the park, Dan discovers jealousy, an emotion he’s not used to.
THE PENGUIN WHO COULDN'T SWIM is an animation about disability – in fact it is about a disabled Penguin. A Penguin who lives on a rocky island in the southern seas where she feels isolated from the rest of her colony.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Family Strand
In one of the most dangerous towns in America, a commune of activist nuns called The Sisters of the Valley run an illegal cannabis farm. They use cannabis to make medicine for everything from epilepsy to cancer, in the face of opposition from the authorities, the sheriff and local cartels. Newsweek claimed in August 2016 that legal cannabis could be the first billion-dollar industry not dominated by men; their leader Sister Kate could well be the first woman to break that barrier.
After a one-night stand on New Year's Eve, Elena and Jake fall madly in love. Within weeks they are living together, and not long after they are trying for a child.
When the baby doesn’t materialize, pressure builds and the idea of a family starts to overshadow their relationship. A passionate, romantic, and contemporary love story, about the struggle to remain in love when life doesn’t give you everything you want it to.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - First Feature Competition - World premiere
On an uninhabited island 20 miles from the rugged Scottish coast, three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six-week shift. As Thomas (Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) and Donald (Connor Swindells) settle into their usual, solitary routines, something unexpected and potentially life-changing occurs when they stumble upon something that isn’t theirs to keep. Where did it come from? Who does it belong to? A boat appears in the distance that might hold the answer to these questions… What follows is a tense battle for survival as personal greed replaces loyalty - and fed by isolation and paranoia, three honest men are led down a path to destruction.
Do you love or do you live?
In post-apocalyptic North America one family fights for survival.
A sci-fi action drama set two years in the future after a major nuclear war has destroyed civilization on earth as we know it. A mother and her daughter struggle to survive this cruel new world, as they embark upon a perilous journey through this blighted, poisoned, radioactive wasteland. They must fight scavengers, mutants, deviants and worse in their quest to build a better world.
Still living at home, the lonely 40-year-old Giorgos devises an intricate plan to take his life after his beloved mother chokes to death on a pistachio.
As the day progresses, Giorgos allows excuses to hinder his deadly leap from the balcony, completely oblivious to the true reason behind all his stalling.
