Martin's first experience of life was rather positive. He was swimming with thousands of similar sperms towards the warmly inviting egg. Reached it, Martin was the winner, the quickest one of all.
Was it determination or beginners luck?
“I shall largely speak of mice, but my thoughts are on man...”
From 1958 to 1983, John B Calhoun experimented on rodents, crowding them into "rat cities" to study the growth and behaviour of their populations.
In 2011, Spaceship Earth's human population passed 7 billion. Worldwide, converging crises in food, energy, water, economics and social cohesion have us debating the total collapse of the human enterprise.
Through Calhoun's experiments, Critical Mass examines the exponential growth of human population and the looming challenges facing civilisation. Constant competition killed Calhoun's rodents – community and co-operation can save humankind.
Documentary exploring the ties that brought Deaf people together, and pushed them apart, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Featuring interviews with deaf people who lived in Belfast during the 1960s and 1970s, this film tells the story of friendships and romances that crossed the religious divide.
When Anne fails to return home, her blind daughter Sarah begins to realise that the world she knew is actually her worst nightmare. Hostage to her mother's insecurities, she ultimately uncovers her macabre plan to prevent her ever leaving her side.
A chilling tale of dark secrets and maternal obsession.
Ellipsis follows a familiar routine of a character going about his business, but it is made strange and dramatic by removing the familiar material world to leave just characters interacting.
1962: When the unknown Beatles played the local clubs. This is the backdrop to an inspiring music driven drama about a teen Irish boy. Who, on the run from a shotgun wedding joins the music scene with devastating effect.
783 Miles, 16 Days, 1 Dream: From a wet and windy West Yorkshire all the way to the world's most glamorous film festival. From Brighouse To Cannes, Le Tour De Tan.
A lonely little girl who yearns for somebody to talk to begins to confide in the moon from her bedroom window each night. However, when a cloudy evening obscures her view, she ventures out into the garden to find her skyward friend.
In a not too distant yet boiling hot future, a husband can't bring himself to express his affection for his wife. Thankfully, the right consumer product has become available in the nick of time. But is another energy-consuming device really the answer to a rapidly changing climate?
