A meditation on memory, loss, and the spectral presence of ancestry, where the past and present collapse into a liminal space beyond time. Through archival imagery and ritualistic gestures, the film questions what it means to mourn, remember, and exist beyond the material world.
Kaz’s mum has recently committed suicide and he decides that Boris Johnson is responsible for his mother’s death. Lacking sleep and grieving, Kaz decides to come up with a plan to kill him. What he really needs though, is to speak to someone.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - La Cinef Selection
A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th-century labour struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures. Along the way producing a terrifying portrait of the technological ideologies that have shaped our present and the nightmares of the people they emerged from.
Official Selection Berlin International Short Film Festival 2023 - Forum Expanded - World premiere
Jules’s life and career as a drag queen is destroyed in a humiliating homophobic attack. When he re-encounters one of his attackers, the deeply-closeted Preston, in a gay sauna, he is presented with a chance to exact revenge. Unrecognisable in his boy form, Jules insinuates himself into Preston’s life, but in so doing discovers power in a new kind of drag. What unfolds is a dangerous seduction that risks discovery and backlash at every moment.
Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2023 - Panorama - World premiere
Granny is the best. While Mary’s home life is ruled by two older brothers, football and ready meals, she shares her grandmother’s rebellious spirit and love of home cooking. But the happy, carefree days in the kitchen with Granny are drawing to a close. At the same time, a mysterious woman appears in Mary’s life, ready to accompany her, her mother and her grandmother on a journey through the family’s history, bringing them all closer together for one last time as they dust off Granny’s past and straighten memories gone askew.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Generation Kplus - World premiere
Ralphie is young and healthy and his girlfriend is pregnant. Yet things do not feel quite right. His job as an Uber driver is neither gratifying nor financially secure. His relationship with his body may also be built on shaky foundations. When he is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult, the tensions that have been growing inside him surface. Ralphie begins to lose his grip on reality.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere
A sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. The film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate emergency and our global destiny.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023
Luke Fowler’s portrait of Scottish poet and filmmaker Margaret Tait takes its inspiration from her unrealised project about her home region of Orkney, drawing and riffing on her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Forum - International premiere
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2023
A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition
Set in 1837, we bear witness to a gentleman's duel on the outskirts of London... A case of mistaken identity, poor timekeeping, injured pride masquerading as honour, a set of old duelling pistols, and what we have is a whirlwind journey of oddity and both intentional and unintentional death-doing…
