Mrs Foster, a retired lady whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a 'know it all child' who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy Jones gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.
Official Selection Flickerfest 2024 - World premiere
In the picturesque Welsh countryside, Mabli journeys to meet her boyfriend Meirion's family. However, her idyllic stay takes a chilling turn when she has a series of awkward encounters with the family, from baking cakes with Mrs. Jones, picking flowers in the garden with Gwen, and a personal tour of Mr Jones's workshop. As the day unfolds, she is increasingly subjected to intense value lessons that starkly clash with her modern beliefs, forcing her to confront a world very distant from her own.
Mabli is led deeper into the farm's history, where the importance of preserving the family bloodline becomes increasingly evident. But when night falls and Meirion's absence becomes unnerving, Mabli discovers the sinister truth behind the family's customs, and the real purpose of her visit.
This Suspenseful Horror sees a clash between modernity and tradition, taking 'meeting the parents' to a whole new, terrifying level.
Afan (19) grapples with heartbreak as he embarks with close friend Kush (30) on a day's trip to celebrate his upcoming marriage. Tensions rise, forcing them to confront their past and mend their bond, amidst their shared grief and hope for a brighter future.
A story of an intimate friendship between two men, offering a fresh take on brown masculinity.
The banana is the world's most eaten fruit but it is at risk of extinction. Composer and sound-artist-turned-director Matthew Herbert attaches a microphone to a banana in the Dominican Republic and records what it hears on the way to the UK.
Exploring the extraordinary story of how a demo recorded by John Lennon in 1976 became the last recording that John, Paul and George and Ringo will get to make together, and celebrates the legacy of the most influential band in popular music history.
When Christmas doesn’t go her way at her ancestral home in Yorkshire, upper-class Violet breaks her family’s cardinal rule; she puts the fire out. In doing so she paves the way for something unworldly to enter with its own terrifying intentions.
Calum Storrie is an artist, writer and designer. He has designed exhibitions for, among others, the Royal Academy, Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London (most recently ‘London Calling’). His book the 'Delirious Museum' is published by Bloomsbury.
This documentary captures Storrie making art, collaborating with musicians and artists of different creative disciplines, from soundscapes, music scores, painting and walking the city. Filmed over six months in and around Hackney London, with a visit to Dundee, Scotland in the middle.
Comfort posits frustrated workers in an anxious landscape, partnering conventions of period dramas with the voice of a shifting protagonist: a cleaner.
When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery. Inspired by an unbelievable true story.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as a new law annihilates freedom of expression overnight, artists and creatives find themselves targets and their works disappeared. We race to preserve the creative uprising amid China’s crackdown.
In June 2020, the day after the National Security Law was imposed, the government started listing words, images, books, slogans, songs that were now deemed illegal - making so much that was ‘normal', forbidden.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves in the personal story of San the director, as we immerse with these underground artists, including some of Asia’s most famous and iconic creators - rappers, dancers, performers, illustrators, stunt collectives - as they navigate this authoritarian new normal. We also follow San having to ask herself the same questions as the other artists; are you willing to risk a life sentence for your art? And if this the last time we can be home - what do we make now?
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2023 - European Premiere