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
Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality.
Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, Dreams Rewired reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.
A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven years, ESTATE, A REVERIE reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked and stereotyped by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents’ own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, the documentary poses the question as to how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…
Eyrie documents a visit to commemorative building built by the communist party in Bulgaria. The action taken by the artist at the centre of the work suggests an exploration as a space for play and speculation, displacing the insistent materiality of the site and the reverence of the ruin.
Foxes is the story of a young estate agent and his 10 year old son, as they adjust to living together after years apart. Set against the backdrop of the property market in London, this is a film about a father focused on his own success rather than his son.
'Heidi Slater' a digital suicide-note or a twisted video Manifesto?
I am Heidi Slater (pseudonym) and I present to you my film -'Heidi Slater' which is
MY PERSONAL representation of the tragic events of the 18th of March 2013. I have edited together a collection of footage taken while (I thought) I was shooting a low budget Horror movie, in fact, 'The Director' was shooting something entirely different.
I now take back control of my life by facing my fears and editing this film together.
Heidi Slater.
Eleven!
Chronicles the friendship that ensued when the straight-laced Magnum photographer Dennis Stock embarked on a road trip with James Dean in 1955 for a Life magazine commission.
A filmmaker/cameraman produces a retrospective of his life's work and begins a journey into the darkest recesses of his mind. Through a combination of interviews with friends and family, film clips, archive footage and a video diary, we find a man in search of the truth - no matter how painful.
