A 17-year-old Ada spends the school vacation helping her father sell contraband cigarettes on the streets. This unusual complicity enables Ada to spend more time and strengthen her bond with a loving but aloof father. However, as Ada gradually ventures into adulthood, her father struggles to acknowledge that his daughter has grown up, and their worlds start drifting apart.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2024 - La Cinef Competition
Following a film director's journey from London to Los Angeles to meet a storyboard artist, Janet, who storyboards the journey the director has made to meet her.
Searching for movie-worthy encounters, the director pursues epiphanies and main character moments while walking in the canyons and driving on the freeways of the cinematically saturated city. The storyboard sequence is altered when Janet unveils a shocking story of her own. Humorously riddled with digressions, PREVIS is at first an enlightening insight into the mysterious mechanics of movie-making, told through the collaborative dynamic of director and storyboard artist.
Official Selection Visions du Réel Festival 2024 - International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
When the water company and local authorities fail the community, the wild swimmers of Bristol fight back through activism, swimming like a mermaid and getting married.
Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage disposal system, and with only 14% of English rivers in good ecological health, the mission to keep the rivers clean is not going well.
In a series of moving, exciting and thought-provoking scenes, the swimmers create a stunning, light-hearted yet fascinating tapestry, probing how activism starts from the grassroots, and carries a profound universal lesson for all of us. There’s a wedding, drum’n’bass, an inflatable turd, and a whole lot of cheesecake in this poignant reflection on people’s innovative battles for the natural world they cherish.
An intimate portrait of Tony Hudgell; a charismatic, complex nine-year-old double amputee. Abused as a baby by his biological parents, Tony faces daily physical and emotional challenges, but his tenacity and character have made him something of a national treasure thanks to his incredible fundraising achievements.
Based on the charming trilogy of children's books by beloved multi award-winning writer/director Richard Curtis, THAT CHRISTMAS follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys!
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
A young man in the shadow of looming conflict, is swept up in a sword fight with a seemingly insurmountable force of nature. As the conflict goes on, he discovers how the duel is inextricably tied to the rest of the world's strife, and his purpose.
A young woman is alone in her room when her boyfriend asks permission to send her nudes. As he sends them, each one appears, coming to life in front of her. But just when things are getting exciting, she starts being harassed when unwanted nudes from other men arrive.
Official Selection S.O.U.L Fest 2024
It's election season at Morris Brook Academy and the candidates will do anything they can to win. From in-fighting within the campaign teams to spreading conspiracy theories, chaos ensues... but is there a real conspiracy at work?
A poetic film about the experience of living with and alongside disease and disability. Tracing loops, echoes and repetitions across the physical and spiritual realms, ‘The Treasury’ combines documentation of family home movie footage; somatic and religious rituals for death and life after death; abandoned urban architectures teeming with natural growth; celluloid film hand-processed in genetic material; and an analogue synthesizer soundtrack that mimics inheritance patterns of genetic disease. In essence, this is a film about a family – but, more than that, it is a film made from the everyday patterns we embody in order to live through and with one another.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
Stranded on a rural road, Kate and her young son must trust a stranger to help them reach safety while also striving to reconnect and heal their fractured bond.
A story of hope, regrets, alcohol and a meteorite.
A normal evening for a normal family, that takes a dramatic turn when all the TV stations broadcast Emergency Alerts about an incoming meteorite.
Once the Prime Minister comes on and confirms this, a family reminisce, rediscover what really matters, get drunk and have a laugh waiting for the inevitable.
Bitter-sweet and poignant, with many an observation on modern life, this debut from writer / director Antony Villa was made on next to zero budget, over a weekend, by a crew of 5 and a cast of 6 and bolstered by a score by Villarosso.
