Projects

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In the shadow of the largest Native American political occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of water protectors from around the world have descended on Standing Rock, North Dakota to resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Haunted by the memories of his childhood in Baghdad, Abdullah has dementia and struggles to communicate with his daughter. As his mind slips and slides between his past and present, his daughter Leilah searches for one last moment of connection with her father before she also fades from his memory.

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The rituals of Persian warrior training are seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2018 - International premiere

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Drawn exclusively from the BFI National Archive, 'Around India' features some of the earliest surviving film from India as well as gorgeous travelogues, intimate home movies and newsreels from British, French and Indian filmmakers. Director Sandhya Suri weaves together archive footage to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India from 1899 to 1947. Taking in Maharajas and Viceroys, fakirs and farmhands and personalities such as Sabu and Gandhi, the film explores not only the people and places of over 70 years ago, but asks us to engage with broader themes of a shared history, shifting perspectives in the lead up to Indian independence and the ghosts of the past. The film also features a superb new score that fuses western and Indian music from composer and sarod player Soumik Datta.

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When a tormented naval officer returns home to Liverpool, the city becomes a landscape for atonement as he is forced to confront his past.

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A cowardly deserter is captured during WWII and awakens in a strange underground cell, alongside a mysterious female prisoner. The pair are forced to take part in a cruel psycological experiment to earn their freedom, where all is not what it seems.

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An ancient, cursed artefact draws a young researcher to an old house which holds a terrible secret. The woman discovers the truth - but once in the clutches of its malevolent, vampiric occupants - she may never be able to leave...

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Philosopher Johnny Golding ruminates on a formative childhood experience, when her father brought home an early prototype of night vision he was working on for the American Military 'Project Eyeglass'. Shot using corrupted nightvision footage, the film explores Johnny's interest in quantum physics, entanglement and her philosophy of Radical Matter. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - World premiere

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Using a zoom lens and filmed undercover, this video observes the architectural space of a new housing development in East London. As the sun fades and lights go on the camera witnesses both the empty order of the surrounding area and the activity within the flats.

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Finally freed from Russian domination, Ukraine and its recent, controversial, revolution has led to a cultural explosion as the number of young artists mushrooms in the capital. Kiev Unbroken: Ukraine Reborn is the first feature length documentary to cover both the bloody Maidan Square uprising of 2014 and the artistic shockwaves that have followed it and which continue to this day - all in the midst of a country at war.

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A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World premiere Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - Lab Competition BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Animation

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In 20th-century France at a boarding house in Paris, a young girl's life is changed by the arrival of a mysterious man, whom she discovers is a wire walker. Based on the much-loved, Caldecott-Medal winning book 'Mirette on the High Wire’. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - World premiere