Shooting Dogs is a gripping and emotional story of two men's struggle for survival when caught up in one of the most brutal genocides of the twentieth century.
John Hurt plays Christopher, a priest who forges a friendship with Joe (Hugh Dancy), a young teacher. Together they have to confront the limits of their courage as they decide whether to stay or leave in the face of the 1994 Rwandan tragedy. The film explores the powerful dilemma of peacekeepers caught up in a dangerous world, where they feel powerless to act effectively - an exceptionally timely and resonant story.
A story of vengeance and betrayal, of two enemies who try to exact horrific punishments from each other, but most of all, a story of two communities who simply do not understand one another.
Michael Eastman is a special narcotics agent who is shot in the line of duty. Unable to speak anymore, Michael tries to start a new life when he discovers that one of his ex-colleagues has taken his wife and his home from him. He later discovers his accident was all a setup, and it's all action as he decides to take everyone responsible down!
This film is about the embarrassingly funny and all too familiar perils of modern urban relationships. A celebration of sex, deceit, therapy and true love.
The West Wittering Affair is a unique romantic- sex-comedy of errors about four confused love-hungry Londoners for whom life can never be the same after one crazy weekend away in the country.
From bed-swapping to sadistic revenge, the unforgetable weekend has jolting repercussions. Revelation follows revelation as the four try to sort out the mess they have made. When things spiral out of control, It is ultimately a two-year-old girl who brings them to their senses.
Both endearing and hilarious, the plot twists, turns and fizzes along with brilliant performances from and up-and-coming British ensemble cast.
This life affirming story touches all the right nerves.
The West Wittering Affair is the debut feature from The Scheinmann Brothers. It is an astonishing and original work of instinctive story-telling which beautifully articulates the emotional coming of age of the film-makers own generation
Commissioned as part of the 2003 S4C Short Shorts strand, Griffilms' short, A Frog's Life, takes a humourous look at the life of a frog from birth to adulthood.
A Way of Life is a moving story of life's unfulfilled potential - an aesthetically and emotionally beautiful film which permits us to connect with the lives of children struggling to survive and to cling on to their dreams of a happy future.
With a magical, lyrical quality, juxtaposed with the harsh realities of life, poverty and growing up, the film tells the story of a teenage mother, struggling to bring up her small daughter, and her role in a devastating crime.
Set in a small community in South Wales, this dark but moving tale looks at the area that exists between black and white, good and evil, child and adult. It is the harshest of rites of passage stories, yet within it lies a most poignant story of teenage love and friendship.
Ultimately, it is a story of survival that becomes a story of murder - a story that will draw you in slowly, until you find yourself in a world of love, tenderness and hurt - a world which will challenge the way you look at life.
Beyond Recognition is the story of an affluent cosmetic surgeon, Jeffery Mills, and his dangerous encounters with an underworld organisation who want him to change the face of their leader Matzo.
With a maze of increasingly sinister tactics of persuasion, Matzo and his gang thrust Mills into an evil world, far removed from his own. Mills soon finds himself lost in a remote town in Italy, hunted by the FBI for murder - his life and career in ruins. Police conspiracies, poison, abduction, corruption and extreme confusion reign, with Mills desperately searching for answers and some way to claw his life back.
Will he succumb to the pressure? Should he trust the FBI agents who say they're there to help? Whose body is found in his car? And who's really pulling the strings. Mills is manipulated by powers beyond his control, beyond reason and beyond the law, culminating in a fast and frenetic conclusion, with an unexpected twist at the end.
An explosive psychological thriller set in upstate New York and the Italian Alps.
Trapped by unfinished homework on a Sunday afternoon, Kelly's bored and irritable. Sharing a bedroom with her elderly Grandmother is at the centre of Kelly's teenage discontent and the sleeping old woman is the target for her resentment.
In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) where we left her - in the arms of gorgeous human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But what happens after the happy ending?
Based upon a series of true stories Cargo is the intense tale of four refugees escaping from Croatia to the UK in the back of a truck in the early 1990s. It was shot in only ten days in January 2003 at Pinewood Studios and emphasises that refugees, regardless of where they have come from or from what economic scenario they are escaping, are desperate people resorting to desperate measures.
