In 1980s Romania, thousands of Western films smashed through the Iron Curtain opening a window into the free world for those who dared to look. A black market VHS racketeer and a courageous female translator brought the magic of film to the masses and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
Sundance Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
An inspirational and occasionally heart-stopping true story of a group of friends from a working men's club in Wales who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Against all the odds, their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, goes on to become a champion. Until one day disaster strikes…
Official Selection Toronto 2015 - TIFF Docs
With his twenty year high school reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his old school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he's changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn.
In the North of England, two adolescent brothers set out to attend an EDL street protest against radical Islam - but will the boys be convinced by the cause’s far-right beliefs?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Dare Strand
True Appaloosa is an adventure story set in the wilds of Central Asia. An Appaloosa Horse breeder, Scott Engstrom, from California, goes in search of the original horses that might have started the breed and aims to rewrite the history of the American horse in the process.
"What is Black Guilt? I’ve often asked myself, why can't artist Kudzanai Chiurai be free to just paint flowers or some shit…?" In this film we question the responsibility of African artists in an ever more globalised universe, where we maybe find ourselves "playing catch up" to the West as opposed to following our own paths. Are we victims of our past, forever beholden to our so called arrested development, or is our superpower our burden?
Berlin International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Andrea Dworkin was one of the most influential feminists of the last quarter of the twentieth century, characterizing pornography as an industry of damaging objectification and abuse, prostitution as a system of exploitation, and intercourse as coercive and degrading to women. Despite her challenging and uncompromising views, which made her a figure of intense controversy, she was nevertheless greatly respected for the quality of her writing and thought, the power of her oratory, and her great commitment to the feminist cause.
'Intercourse' offers a multi-layered visual, narrative approach to her life and thought, with multiple actors taking her role and expressive and non-naturalistic re-enactments of pivotal moments.
An uptight English businessman is troubled by reoccurring dreams of endlessly running for his life. He goes to see a Skandinavian Sleep Specialist who hypnotises him in an attempt to get to the root of his problem. What she discovers takes them both on a journey of unexpected consequence...
Set in Cornwall in 1855 All in the Valley is a powerful story of desperation and redemption played out against a bleak and unforgiving landscape. Joseph Ballam, a Crimean war veteran, returns home with no money, no job and no prospects. When Mr. Lincoln, a wealthy mine owner, offers him the chance to emigrate to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land it seems his troubles may be at an end, but there is a catch. In exchange for a new life Ballam must go deep into the Cornish countryside to hunt down the Tallack brothers, a dangerous gang of thieves, and return the money they have stolen from Lincoln’s company. Ballam is accompanied by Kneebone, a gruff miner who claims to know where the gang are hiding. The bond between the pair grows as they track the men across the moor. However when they finally come face to face with the brutality of the Tallack brothers Ballam must confront the violence of his past and decide what he is willing to do in exchange for a new life.
Set in 1980 in the midlands during the much-loved two-tone sub-culture era, in a world of brief, violent encounters and racial tensions.
Beverley explores British identity through the perspective of a mixed-race teenager (Laya Lewis) seeking respect within a gang of male skinhead youths on a white suburban estate.
A new craze is taking over the streets of London. With fights, street deals and territorial warfare growing ever dangerous, it won't be long until underground conker fighting is out of control.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Laugh Strand
