An experimental documentary, chronicalling the director's maternal grandmother's life in Communist Hungary. The film serves as a memento of times past and as a reminder of how socialism colonized the souls of a generation.
Women in Pictish garb! Tri-partite geometry! Psychedelic sitars! Heavy Magick!
The Return from Annwn is a mytho-ecological short film and digital project by Annwn Collective, depicting a trans-dimensional quest to restore cosmic equilibrium through female alignment. Borrowing from Celtic mythology, Pictish symbolism, Japanese butoh dancing and the Western hermetic magic tradition, The Return from Annwn chronicles an atmospheric journey by six summoned spectres through the landscapes of England. Paying equal homage to the filmic rituals of Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren and the aesthetics of 80s fantasy epics, the film performs a form of spiritual archaeology on a world where objects have the power of change and lasers emanate from pineal eyes.
The sword must be drawn and the stars realigned! Come forth Guardians of Annwn, come forth!
Havana Moon captures the historic, once in a lifetime concert by The
Rolling Stones in Havana, Cuba. Directed by Paul Dugdale (Adele,
Coldplay) this epic, record breaking concert features the hits ‘Jumpin’ Jack
Flash’, ‘It's Only Rock ’n Roll’, ‘Gimme Shelter’, ‘Brown Sugar’,
‘Satisfaction’ and many more. Filmed at the end of the América Latina Olé
Tour 2016 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood
perform a truly spectacular set to over 1.2 million adoring fans.
200 years after the 'Great Fail'. The world is divided. The Northern Zone led by Fergus and tightly ruled. Everywhere else is The Wilderness. Fergus is accused of a murder he didn't commit and sentenced to exile from The Northern Zone. Bound by familial duty, Cathal and his brothers Cet and Cormac, accompany their exiled father into a bleak and strange wilderness in search of redemption and a new beginning. But They quickly become lost. Cathal becomes increasingly more angry by the choices Fergus makes. Fergus's time is over and Cathal is ready to make his mark on the world.
Sophie is on the brink of womanhood, in love for the first time, and fighting for her life. She’s anorexic, the result of a battle for control with her overbearing father Ilyas. He’s a chef; when she doesn’t eat, she hits him where it hurts.
Stuck in a West Midlands village far from her old friends, in a family that refuses to let her grow up and find her own way, refusing food is her only weapon, and her secret boyfriend Liam her only relief. When Sophie starts having nocturnal visits from a horrifying ghost, everyone she loves dismisses it, believing she’s having anorexic hallucinations. Her credibility lost, Sophie leans on Liam and they become ever more intimate. Suspicious Ilyas cracks down harder, while Sophie’s possessive mother is disturbed, sensing she may lose her virginity. Pressure builds, the anorexia and the attacks increase. Sophie’s life is on the line and a dark family secret surfaces as the battle of wills becomes a battle for survival.
Sebastian, 18, needs a new heart but the search for a donor remains futile. At his lowest ebb, he spurns the attentions of Emily, 16, a terminal leukaemia patient. Sebastian is elated when a donor becomes available, but when Emily disappears, Sebastian discovers her very special gift to him.
Set in a former Cold War era civil defence bunker turned data centre buried 30 metres underground in Stockholm. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, the film explores the temporal nature of data space and geology. Once housing servers for WikiLeaks, issues of privacy, surveillance and digital sovereignty emanate.
The inhabitants of a Scottish island try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a nearby stranded ship.
A remake of the beloved black and white original film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios, which was based on the novel by Compton Mackenzie, which itself was based on the real events of 1941 when the S.S. Politician was shipwrecked in the Outer Hebrides leading to an hilarious battle as the wily islanders on nearby Eriskay tried to salvage the huge cargo of whisky on board, enraging the British authorities.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
Opposites attract when Vida, a middle class cellist from London falls in love with Arthur, a working class animation student from Wales. But, their relationship is put to the test when they meet each others families and are forced to confront class and cultural differences.
A sensitive, touching, quirky, tragic and fresh look at how conflicting family ties alonside cultural and class divides challenge love in this modern day Romeo & Juliet story.
East End Film Festival (London) 2016 - World premiere
A comic thriller with dark undertones and a big heart, set on the island of Ibiza.
When Connor's best friend becomes innocently embroiled in the plans of a gang in Ibiza, Connor is the only one who can help him, but it means returning to the island where he worked a few years earlier, and has avoided since the tragic death of another friend.
Once back, Connor is reunited with Leo, his former boss and mentor. A 60 year old American draft dodger turned hippy. Only thing is, Leo is trying to kill himself. Amongst the mayhem of exploding villas, underwater drops and the attractions of a gorgeous diving instructor, Connor and Leo's journeys teach them some valuable life lessons. For Leo it is that every day is precious. For Connor, that his life in London is not as perfect as it seems, and that if he deals with his past, there is only one place he'll ever be truly happy...Ibiza. All he has to do is stay alive long enough to enjoy it.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
A random act of theft that has put Tom Hammond's life in a tailspin. His most treasured possession, a photograph of him with his son Luke... their last moment of shared happiness, has been stolen from his bookshop.
“The story is a simple one, made up of fragmented memories, the present and the past, told out of chronology. Love, loss, terror… and the hopeful promise of change.” (Danny Huston)
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere
Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire.
