We follow a 9 year old boy in a post apocalyptic world trying to look after his sick mother. Can he stay alive? Remain a child? On a deeper level the film is inspired by the lives of children who grow up with mentally ill or addict parents.
An introduction to the work of Joy Batchelor, animator, director, and producer. Joy was one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio which made the UK's first animated feature film, Animal Farm, in 1954. Although a crucial figure in British animation, today she is almost unknown, something this film seeks to redress.
Troubled Mary Ann has been tormented her whole life by dreams of a sinister figure called the Red King and his morbid fairytale kingdom. Following the death of her father, Mary Ann returns to her family home where she recalls the childhood stories of the Red King and Alice from ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ that her father once read to her. Haunting events and suppressed memories propel Mary Ann through the dark corridors of her parental home into the realms of her nightmares where she must finally confront the Red King and gain closure to her scarred past.
Nasreen, an immigrant office cleaner, who dreams of being a screen actor. Lacking the contacts or support to realize her ambitions, she instead creates extravagant characters for herself to play, imagining film crews and real people as extras, and heads off on an action adventure with the unlikeliest of results.
#1 and #2 are searching for their magnum opus, the one story that will bring them clarity, purpose. When they struggle to find inspiration in our world, they are ripped from it...but what happens when you lose control of the world you create? Forget the story. Meet the tellers.
In the first in a trilogy of short films that follows on from Time Stops Moving and Time Always Moving, Adam begins to reveal a time that involved a kiss and a lie- a time he tries to forget.
An intimate story of father and son reviving a family tradition in Barcelona. Two different generations and views on life provides us with confronting as well as humorous dialogue. Emilio, 90 year old cobbler and his ambitious son Daniel work together but the craftsmanship in Europe is slowly disappearing.
Dawn O’Donnell a penniless lesbian in 1950s Australia stormed her way through Sydney’s gay underworld and built herself an empire of drag clubs, sex shops and real estate. The convent girl turned ice-skater was a ruthless business-woman but was she an arsonist, a brothel- keeper, was she a murderer?
New Year's Eve on the top of a London skyscraper. Martin is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he's now desperate to jump. But he's not alone. Single mother Maureen, sassy teen Jess, and musician turned pizza-delivery boy JJ, have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan.
Instead of jumping, these complete strangers make a pact to stay alive and stay together until Valentine's Day at least.
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere
As the Middle East continues to be torn by war, sectarian violence and a backlash against the Arab Spring, the BBC World Service investigates the television channels in Iraq and Egypt that are accused of spreading hatred and intolerance.
