The Palio horserace in Siena isn't a matter of life or death... It's much more important than that. Twice a year the Italian city of Siena goes crazy for the oldest horse race in the world: the Palio. Not your average race: strategy, bribery and corruption play as much a part as the skill of the riders.
'Palio' explores the thrilling story of a rivalry between a young ‘outsider' keen to break in to a dangerous but lucrative game and the corrupt 'insider' who has manipulated the city of Siena for a decade. Their passionate and dramatic battle is an epic and cinematic tale of Italian life in microcosm.
Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
"Belfast, it’s a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself." Mark Cousins.
A unique film about an infamous place, with this 10,000 year old woman as our free spirited walking tour guide. Starting in the here and now, with the everyday, we move on to the dream life of the city, mapping the voices of women and the liminal spaces, the unnoticed and the unloved things about this place. But she also looks back and she sees the tragedy and the horror of what went before. She remembers everything… 'I Am Belfast' highlights Mark Cousins’ influences, inherently cinematic, but all the while underscored by the influence of the grandparents, the mothers, the brothers and the women of the city he comes from.
Belfast Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
A behind-the-scenes look at Mary J. Blige recording her 13th studio album in London. The film chronicles the singer's creative process as she writes, records and curates one of her most experimental albums to date. Teaming up with some of the most successful British singer/songwriters including Sam Smith, Disclosure and Emeli Sande (all of whom appear in the documentary), Mary J. Blige – The London Sessions offers unparalleled access to one of the worlds most successful singers.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? While studying the Nuremberg trials, a lawyer becomes fascinated with two men: both sons of famous Nazi Governors, and both with polar opposite views of their fathers’ hand in the war. A forthright dive into individual perception, 'My Nazi Legacy' adds new meaning to the ties that bind us.
A look at the growing disparity between different economic classes. Comedian, provocateur and aspiring revolutionary Russell Brand leads a polemical documentary about the financial crisis from international banking centres in London and New York. Combining documentary style, archive footage and comedy routines to explore how the crisis has affected the working and lower classes while the famed “one percent” has benefited.
Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
'The Survivalist' is the near future story of a man eking out a meagre existence on a secluded smallholding deep in the forest. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his farm, his loneliness drives him to strike a bargain with them in return for bed and board. But as desire becomes stronger than necessity, the exchange becomes an uneasy, ongoing arrangement which threatens not only his carefully constructed world but also his life.
It’s the Eastern Front, 1944. The Russians are pushing the German Army back through Romania. Major Kurt Fleischer, war-weary commander of an elite troop of German soldiers, is ordered to escort a female scientist, Professor Anna Kappel, into a mysterious forest behind enemy lines.
He is not told the objective of the mission only that he take her to a set of coordinates deep within the forest. Fleischer doesn’t like it but his orders are signed by Reichsführer Himmler himself. It will mean death if the mission fails; for him and his men.
He likes it even less when he learns that Professor Kappel is from the Nazi Occult Department and Heinrich Metzger, a psychotic SS Major will be accompanying them in order to ensure the mission is completed as instructed.
As they move deep into the forest Fleischer is unable to prevent his men from dying in horrific and inhuman ways. Fleischer realises that there is something in the trees that is far more deadly than the Russians. If his troop is not to be completely wiped out Fleischer needs to discover what Anna wants at those coordinates and who or what is intent on slaughtering them before they get there.
When 12 year old Molly Moon finds a mysterious book on hypnotism, she escapes from the orphanage where she lives to pursue her dreams of fame and fortune in London.
Based on Georgia Byng's series of best-selling children's books.
The inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken, which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.
Jackie, a lowly paralegal is fired from his position at a criminal law firm and, along with his colleague Mick, embarks on a sometimes reckless journey to 'wine and dine' London's criminals, with the aim of getting their jobs back.
As they gather an assortment of gangsters and petty crooks, and descend further and further into the underworld, the line between criminal and lawyer becomes increasingly indefinable.
Through all the twists and turns, Jackie asks his clients to trust him... he's not a lawyer... yet.
Wrongfully arrested, Marina is placed in the unfamiliar world of a prison cell. Spending four days on remand, Marina’s distress transforms as she is confronted by the bleak reality of the women she meets inside.
