A girl goes out of her way to pursue her crush, but as the two part ways at the train station, will she be able to finally reveal her feelings? This observational film draws us into the anxieties and uncertainties of a young girl as she comes into her own.
1940. A German plane is shot down near a sleepy rural village. Two young boys go off in search of the wreckage and find the pilot. What follows is a coming of age experience the boys will never forget.
‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm, and super 8 film to create defective and unprojectable celluloid sculptures.
Hi-res scanning and digital stop motion reanimates the material and reveals its potential motion and colour music within, where traces of ambiguous narratives emerge from the complex loops.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand
Following a group of local schoolchildren as they learn of the Viking invasion of central Scotland and the subsequent establishment of the medieval kingdom of Strathclyde. How will the children react when they discover that Vikings and kings walked on the ground below their feet?
A moving portrait of the UK housing crisis, told through the experience of one family. Filmed over a year, Daisy-May is both director and daughter as her and her family fight to retain their dignity whilst they wait to be rehoused by the council. This is an extraordinary story of courage and determination, a story of family bonds which is both heart-breaking and life affirming, combining moments of tremendous tenderness and grit with some unexpected humour. HALF WAY offers an alternative narrative from the current exhausted media coverage of the housing crisis; it does not, and cannot, shy away from the harsh actualities of homelessness.
HAUS ATLANTIS conjures a glittering sci-fi fairy tale from one of the stranger corners of Nazi Germany’s cultural history. Through voice-over, archival images, documentary footage and fictional scenes the film weaves together fragments of history and myth into a seductive fantasy, creating something new out of the old.
'A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.'
Stanley is unemployed and going nowhere fast with his boxing dreams. Until he meets Fader, a stranger offering something that could help Stanley train harder and faster to achieve his dreams.
But all power comes at a price in Fader's world and Stanley soon finds himself out of his depth in a culture dominated by performance enhancing drugs and violence.
Fader's boss, Kaufman, has gone to considerable lengths to find Stanley and is keen to bring him into the firm. Before long a clean escape seems unlikely. Stanley is faced with the ultimate decision, beat them or join them.
A conversational journey through the ongoing gentrification in a major borough of London’s East End. Previously a home for the poor and hub for a huge number of artists, Hackney has recently seen an extortionate rise in property prices, forcing a large part of the population to move further out.
Radical Tendencies is a social realist drama about Tahir Masum, an everyday young university student, whose life is changed when he is racially abused and influenced by a new “friend” into the world of radicalisation.
