Projects

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In 1985, the Irish village of Ballinspittle was the site of a mass visionary experience. Worshippers at the local grotto saw the statue of Mary move. Almost forty years later, a handful of local devotees remain, including the statue’s dutiful caretaker Patrick Joseph Simms. Here, the film documents both the mystical landscape of rural Irish Catholicism and a terrible darkness beneath its surface. The film uses a non-realist form and style in order to depict the transcendent experience of its subjects. In so doing, it attempts to offer a credibility to the experience of the film’s participants, whose voices have been deliberately dismissed by the institution that oversees their faith. Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2024

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Filmmaker Thomas Pickering has never eaten meat. Born in the 1980’s and raised vegetarian, before switching to a vegan diet, Tom’s always believed he’s been doing right by the animals, his own health, and - more recently - the planet. Despite this he still can’t go a day without hearing from others why they could never go vegan. From “where do you get your protein” and “soya is killing the rainforests” to “vegan food is expensive” and “climate change doesn’t exist”, he’s heard it all. With no sign of these arguments against his lifestyle choice going away, Tom sets out on a quest to investigate the many reasons he’s heard over the years, and see if they’re unjustified, or whether his upbringing was one big plant based con. On his journey Tom tracks down several top athletes, witnessing world records, championship successes and an 84-year-old taking part in his sixth ultra-marathon. He speaks to doctors, environmental scientists, psychologists and chefs. He follows investigative journalists and activists as he goes undercover into factory farms, where he learns the A Rating awarded to the UK for its farming practise isn’t what it seems. At the end of it all, Tom tries to piece together this complex picture as he finds a clear link between the way we treat animals, the effect it has on our planet, and our own health.

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In this ode to fútbol and Colombia’s Caribbean region, Daniel—a Colombian-British filmmaker—recalls his first memory of the sport he loves: the 1993 championship final between Junior de Barranquilla and América de Cali that he watched on a VHS tape with his father in London. Through conversations between Daniel, his father and two uncles, JUNIOR TU PAPÁ pieces together fragments of waning memory to collectively remember a time in Colombian history when fútbol was a national obsession. A distraction from the relentless violence the country faced while Colombia’s national team was considered one of the best teams in the world. Official Selection Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cine a la Calle 2024 Official Selection New York Colombian Film Festival 2024 Official Selection Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias 2024 Official Selection True/False Film Fest 2024

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A young filmmaker arrives in New York to find finance for an impossible feature. Official Selection Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - World premiere

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Having recently lost a close friend, a young woman explores her sexuality as a way of processing trauma, as well as joy. However, disrupting this life is a ghost haunting her home. In an obsessive pursuit to uncover the truth, Becca discovers something far stranger than she could have imagined.

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When fate brings disillusioned music teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, the sound of Irish music is changed forever. Under the name Kneecap, their band begin moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic and hedonistic lives. A language encumbered with forty words for stone now has one for stoned. But to get their voices heard the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians as the future status of the Irish language erupts into the public arena. Yet their worst enemies are often themselves, as their illegal exploits, families and relationship pressures threaten to pull the plug on their dreams. Across the globe a language dies every two weeks. This is a darkly comic story about our intrinsic human urge for identity; whether personal, political or artistic. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - NEXT - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024

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A struggling British-Palestinian drag performer catches the attention of a successful white gay man in this semi-autobiographical queer love story. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A romantic thriller set in the world of competitive body-building, fuelled by ego, desire and the American Dream. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - Premieres - World premiere Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

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MIRAGE - EIGENSTATE weaves together analogous investigations into the nature of reality, positioning Western science as just one methodology among many in a constellation of pluralistic worldviews. The film explores different interpretations of reality, from Sufi mysticism and Monorealism to theories of quantum mechanics. Edited in the style of American astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan’s 1980s television show, 'Cosmos', which sought to explain the origin of life and the fourth spatial dimension, MIRAGE - EIGENSTATE references scientific mass communication, where complex concepts are described in straightforward ways, often through images. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Forum Expanded - International premiere

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From the deep snow of the Belarusian forest to the heat of the reeds in the French Camargue, Mother Vera is the story of a young Orthodox nun; her turbulent past, and fragile future. Revealed through spellbinding visual language echoing the rigid discipline of monastic life, we enter the enclosed, shadowy spaces of a convent outside Minsk. Sound and silence submerge us in the rhythm of the place. At the monastery farm, two hundred men live in rehabilitation. They are a mirror to Vera’s old life. Faced with a life-changing decision, Vera must confront her past to find the freedom she desires. Official Selection Visions du Réel 2024 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Documentary Competition

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Kira is an ambitious photographer who wants to exploit her 'exotic' Eastern heritage to gain recognition in the cutthroat art scene in London. Travelling back to her homeland for an art project, she ends up entrapped in the enigmatic heart of her ancestral homeland.

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A queer couple make a surreptitious visit to the lake where they first met for one more adventure.