A metaphysical time-travel mystery. A Japanese woman who comes home to a discovery that turns her world upside-down and catapults her into her own past. Koumiko is lost in time. What is it that pulls her from future to past? Can she recover what she has lost?
Jill Daniels’ autobiographical film explores the secrets of her emotionally repressed Jewish parents Barbara and Bertie, who were married in the mid 1940s when homosexuality was illegal and divorce in the eyes of observant Jews, a sin. During the course of their long lives Barbara and Bertie moved from house to house, country to country, through divorce, remarriage and physical violence. Moving from house to house, country to country, through divorce, remarriage and physical violence rich one day and broke the next Barbara and Bertie spend their last days together in a small flat in suburban London. Daniels films her parents in their small flat while dramatically charged re-enactments hint at a hidden narrative of physical violence and sexual ambivalence. Daniels fails to confront her parents’ about their secrets and it is only through the privacy of the filmmaker's voice that she can dispute the authenticity of their recounted memories.
Pale Shadows is told through the eyes of a young storyteller. She reveals the story of Bradamante who travels to a magical island to reclaim her lost lover Ruggeiro from the enchantress Alcina. This is a rich visionary approach to Handel’s opera Alcina, which explores the intrigue and turmoil of love.
Troubled journalist Deeley is obsessed with Kem, his beautiful neighbour. But when Kem is kidnapped Deeley must confront inner demons while searching for a woman the world has forgotten about.
An animation based on a poem about the sea as a lover to the land. The sea can give and it can take away, like an irrepressible force it cannot be tamed. Yet listen and it will yield its secrets...
A story of lust and desire, of identity and sexuality. A young woman’s mundane life is turned upside down when she meets a sensuous older Spanish woman, who is passing through the sleepy English coastal town she lives in.
Following the death of his wife, Dean leaves the Army to care for his son Luke. Convinced his dad’s actually a spy, Luke embarks on a journey that leads him to discover the awkward truth. From BAFTA nominated Director Richard Turley and Producer Ruth Wright, comes a boys own tale of secrets, subterfuge and fallen heroes set against a backdrop of 1970s Britain.
Perennially provocative documentarian Nick Broomfield (Aileen Wuornos: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Biggie and Tupac) digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the 'Grim Sleeper', who terrorised South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.
Telluride Film Festival 2014 - World premiere
We follow a young woman ‘Nita who would be the first of her family to go to university in the UK. But her dreams are thwarted by both her own mistakes and her widower father’s desire to move the family back to Iran. She runs away to the seaside in hope of escape…
