A young boy releases a cloud into a church and it builds to a storm. Elwood’s Ark is a poem that challenges notions of religion and redemption. It traces the journey of the water we drink, back 13.8 billion years through time and space to the beginning of the Universe.
Spoken in the words of a child, the film warns of a coming apocalypse. It is an apocalypse of our own making - an apocalypse in which divine intervention will not play a part, and only we ourselves may prevent.
An adrift architect, a disengaged Japanese couple and a Lithuanian mixed martial arts fighter search for connection in modern Japan in this carefully composed meditation on space and human relationships.
From the stylishly designed shops of Tokyo, to a minimalist glass suburban home, to a mysterious tree house in the woods, the film reveals the strange places we inhabit, and how they can both unite and divide us.
Chicago International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Keeping Up With the Kashubians is an observational film taking place in Kashubia, a rural region of northern Poland. Through capturing the daily life – people at work, at home and on the streets – we see how, if at all, the local identity and language exist within modern-day Europe.
A head-on collision between fantasy and reality told from the twisted world view of Errol – a sexually repressed teenager born in the wreckage of a Lada crash.
Raised in isolation by his mother at a remote petrol station, Errol yearns to explore the real world. When his mother dies in an accident, Errol learns that the father he thought dead is alive, and sets off in the Lada to find him, leaving an unintended trail of destruction across the desolate backroads of 80s Britain. When he finally does reach him, Errol’s violent-tempered father tries recruiting him to a criminal underworld, forcing Errol to choose what kind of man he wants to be.
This thrilling odyssey burns a highly flammable cocktail of love, hate, sex and death setting Errol's moral compass spinning. Is there any hope that he will find salvation?
Exploring the intangibility of how one experiences and records the present through bodily sensations, referencing Marcel Proust’s notion of ‘Involuntary Memory’.
The residual, the soil and stains aren’t mere reconstruction of the past but an attempt to return to ritualise fragments of the absent. The desire to remember, embeds the past involuntarily within the present.
A man and woman meet, thrown together by chance - or fate. Slowly, painfully, they discover they survived the same battlefield - from opposite ends of experience.
The sun rises, the moon sets.
Can the terrible damage of war can be healed?
"The enlightened soul
Like the moon
Casts its light on all." (Chinese poem, anonymous)
Born into a world of silence, Eli finds himself not able to communicate well with people. Mainly because not everyone understands sign language. This has impacted his self-esteem and confidence. This is Eli's story of how difficult life can be when you aren't being heard.
There are lots of sensitive kids in the world but 8 year-old Simon may be the most sensitive. Mysteriously gifted with the ability to hear the thoughts and feelings of those around him. Events are made dark and frightening by Simon's gift. And a tragedy his brave efforts can't prevent...
Using the metaphor of the Stoneymollan Trail, a hiking trail out of Glasgow, the film explores Charlotte Prodger’s personal archive, with material from multiple formats that includes an archive of miniDV tapes that Prodger shot between 1999 and 2004, recent footage shot on her iPhone and HD camera, and screenprinted graphic forms. The resulting single-screen video piece is a meditation on memory, subjectivity and desire.
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
