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.
High-flying City lawyer, Amy Mustafi, moves into stately Winterstoke House in the English countryside following a breakdown at her work place, caused by the bipolar disorder she has battled all her life. Amy is charged with setting up the new family home while her husband Shayan ties up a business deal abroad.
A Romanian housekeeper and her young brother are engaged to help Amy run the house. They soon find a sealed off entrance to the former servants’ quarters of the estate. Upon opening the long-forgotten door, a string of seemingly supernatural incidents begin to occur.
Amy discovers the mansion has guarded a mystery for over a century. In 1914, three servants disappeared and the estate was swiftly abandoned by its former aristocrat owner, who fled never to return. She begins to obsess over solving the mystery, whilst unknowingly stoking her simmering mania. Is there something else at Winterstoke House with Amy? Or is it all a phantasm borne out of Amy's mental instability?
It began as the story of Dutch art lover, Michel van Rijn. It ended in murder and scandal.
Michel van Rijn made millions smuggling stolen icons, artworks, and rare antiquities into Europe and the USA, evading Interpol and the CIA. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s he lived a playboy Jet Set lifestyle, living large and wide, bolstered by the false claim that he was a descendant of Rembrandt. Michel, however, was eventually captured, then extradited and imprisoned.
Michel ended up working for Scotland Yard, turning on the smugglers and forgers he had previously conspired with, drinking himself almost to death, and losing his son. Through his pioneering website, he became a crusader for the art world, uncovering trails of Nazi gold, then exposing terrorist networks financed by black market art sales. Unsurprisingly, several contracts were put on Michel’s life, including one by the Taliban.
He then disappeared.
Now in hiding at a Mossad-protected Jewish hotel in Europe, estranged from his family and seven ex-wives, Michel is under investigation from the FBI for masterminding the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist, where two unarmed men stole $500m worth of Rembrandts and other Dutch paintings, that remain unrecovered, and the crime unsolved.
Taking place over 10 days in the lead up to Christmas, 1966 and based on a true story. Infamous gangsters the Kray twins sprung Frank Mitchell (aka 'The Mad Axeman') from Dartmoor prison. Frank went into hiding in East London in a flat on the Barking Road with just a hostess and minder for company, whilst a national manhunt ensued for him and his capture.
As Christmas fast approaches, the characters locked in the flat become desperate, fearful and suspicious. At the behest of the Krays, Frank writes to the Home Secretary, and his case is debated in the Houses of Parliament. If he receives a parole date, he will agree to hand himself back in. This offer is declined and Frank becames a liability.
Frank falls in love with the hostess 'Lisa', and the dysfunctional family enjoy a final Christmas Eve dinner. On Christmas day, Frank thinks he is leaving the flat to go to the countryside and to be the Kray's right hand man. In fact he is taken outside, put in a van and shot multiple times.
