A Filipino family is caught in a long-winded catering delivery for their niece’s wedding in London that seems to pull them further and further from the reception itself.
In 2017 housing rose to the top of the British political agenda for the first time in a generation. But despite the media spotlight, few stories examined the catastrophic long-term failures that resulted in a chronic shortage of social housing in the United Kingdom. This film seeks to explore the agenda behind the neglect, demolition and regeneration of council estates in the UK over the past thirty years. The film reveals how individuals and communities are fighting against the state and private developers, as they try to save their homes from demolition, while investigating the decisions that turned a crisis into a tragedy.
The story of people who know that housing is not an expensive luxury, but a fundamental human right.
A black and white poetic journey into the legacy of Derek Jarman's life and the eerie landscape and nature of Dungeness, Kent, England. Project shot in 2010 and elaborated in the following years, with completion in 2017.
Music Score by Cosmic Bird
A documentary chronicle of a rural landscape in transition, bearing witness to the struggles of three cattle farms to survive against the odds.
For more than a year, starting in Spring 2015, film maker Mick Catmull followed farmers at work on 3 west Cornwall holdings, all less than 200 acres in size, filming every aspect of cattle rearing and recording often poignant conversations.
In the last 10 years, more than a third of Britain’s small farms have vanished, unable to survive in a commercial world dominated by retail giants and modern agribusiness. The small farm has been a Cornish constant for countless generations. But for how much longer? Every year more small farms are broken up and sold off to large landowners, speculators and even city bankers wanting to try their luck at a bit of hobby farming.
A mugger meets his match in a mysterious woman who offers him three wishes in exchange for his soul.
Des demands money from Nikki; instead she offers three wishes... He thinks he can trick her - but to his horror discovers she's the tricky one.
Tormented by a mysterious sound that seemingly only he can hear, plumber, Chris Page seeks help from Prof. James McAven, a disgraced quantum physics professor who reveals that the Hum is a clue to something much bigger - a door to another universe, a deeper dimension laying beneath our reality.
As a member of the immigrant generation that illegally journeyed from Iraqi Kurdistan to Europe on foot, Hiwa K’s ‘Mirror’ simulates an experience of walking through foreign territory. Using an “object-sculpture” made of stick and motorbike mirrors which he balances on his nose, Hiwa K finds his way.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand
Two young con artists plan an elaborate real estate scam. But with borrowed money in the balance, will Suz keep her undisciplined partner Ant in check long enough to fool estate agent Alice?
A film created from the treasure trove of BFI archive. The story traverses a century of gay experiences, encompassing persecution and prosecution, injustice, love and desire, identity, secrets, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and pride. The soundtrack weaves the lyrics and music of John Grant and Hercules & Love Affair with the images and guides us intimately into the relationships, desires, fears and expressions of gay men and women in the 20th century- a century of incredible change.
Starting with the first gay relationship on film released in 1919, 'Different From the Others', this documentary offers a wealth of unknown newsreel and amateur film from the 20s and 30s, the sub textual references in 40s cinema, the arrests and prosecutions of gay men for ‘gross indecency’ in the 50s, the early gay rights marches and decriminalisation of the 60s and 70s, the campaigns for an equal age of consent and against section 28, the Pride movement and AIDS crisis in the 80s and 90s, the sexual liberation of the 00s queer and transgender scene and the chemsex, gay parenting and marriage campaign of recent years.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2017 - World premiere
