In a small American town a mundane event offers a glimpse in to a normally unseen world of mysterious connections. A businessman rushes for his train but just misses it. As he waits for the next service another world seems to open up before him and we witness a series of disparate characters each enter their own state of delusion, rapture or heightened awareness.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand - World premiere
In the last moments before he goes on stage, an ageing performer of old school cabaret rehearses in his dressing room. Or so he thinks.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Thrill Strand - World premiere
Rita is about to kick the bucket, but before she does she has one last job to do: drag her granddaughter out of the closet.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Thrill Strand - World premiere
Gemma wakes to find her house on fire. Trapped with her son, she dials 999. The operator who answers holds Gemma’s life in her hands.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Short Film Competition
The story of the footsoldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state.
Telluride Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Kate is an out of work actress who is working in a central London shop. That is until she gets made redundant. Inspired by Bonnie Parker, Kate releases her inner bad girl, and with her shop assistant friends comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but where is her Clyde?
Alice, a young girl who's recently moved to London to live with her older brother, struggles to come to terms with what she wants in life and who she is. She becomes friends with an American girl, who is seemingly everything she would like to be. But Alice can't break out of the cycle of mental and emotional insecurity she's found herself experiencing, since moving to the big smoke
Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches explores how individuals and groups spend time in two distinctive public London locations.
Made by Esther Johnson as part of an Arts & Humanities Research Council project, this poetic documentary illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.
Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the film incorporates contributions from a diverse range of visitors. These testimonies highlight themes such as the psychological feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a place, the importance of design for everyday street furniture and access to communal outdoor space.
The film acts like a stranger who joins you to ‘watch the world go by’, and to break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.
Biopic of Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie, a Scottish-born immigrant to the United States, became the second-richest man in the world during the steel industry boom at the end of the 19th century. The industrialist and activist, whose vast steel business contributed to America’s growing military power, then gave away almost his entire fortune through numerous philanthropic ventures, including the funding of over 3000 public libraries worldwide.
A homage to 1960s gothic fantasy, and Italian and Japanese horror, Black Woods at Sundown's cautionary tale follows a girl's serene summer afternoon, as it descends into psychedelic nightmare.
