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Adam strives to present as a sensitive feminist but behind the facade he's a serial womaniser. After a one night stand with a mysterious stranger leaves him suddenly irresistible, Adam's dream quickly turns into a nightmare. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

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Megan Rapinoe's play making was crucial to the US women’s soccer team that won two World Cups and an Olympic gold medal. Off the pitch, she’s been a trailblazer in calling out injustice when she sees it. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official Selection DOC NYC 2026

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A taxidermist named Araminta seeks to preserve a human specimen when Bernie volunteers himself. Their unusual arrangement evolves into an unexpected love story. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere

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Philosopher Slavoj Zizek guides us through film, music, and media, exposing utopian illusions. Through absurd comparisons and insights, we recognise our fate to transform it. Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2026 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2026 - North American premiere

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BLACK NOISE is a tale of those two uneasy bedfellows: Justice and Revenge. ​In a decaying country house hotel that once hid a brutal orphanage, Leda, a ghostwriter, arrives to interview a wealthy, dysfunctional family - intent on exposing their crimes. As she’s drawn under the spell of the enigmatic Butler and his ghostly silent staff, reality dissolves into hallucinatory fever dreams and the nightmarish black noise that accompanies them. Might it be that Leda has a fractured psyche? Herself also a victim of the abuse she seeks to uncover, stuck in a never-ending search for answers hidden deep within. A lavish memorial banquet becomes a Grand Guignol massacre, forcing her to confront how far she will go for justice and whether revenge can ever purge the atrocities of the past. ​​A strangely seductive fantasy, richly atmospheric, a fractured narrative which slowly reveals itself as a cinematic fever dream. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2026 - World premiere

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An observation and comparison of two contrasting relationships experienced by the same young fella a few years apart from each other. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh 2026 - World premiere

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Robbie exists on the margins of society. He lives alone on a narrow boat in rural England with little means. He has found solace in isolation and a humble life. Unexpectedly he is contacted with the unwanted news of his estranged father’s death. This drags up emotions from the past that quickly become too much to bear… And so, the story begins… A journey back into his past. A journey on a motorcycle to find his mother. He drives, alone, through desolate landscapes, barren and mountainous, into the depths of his mind. A dream world where Robbie is forced to confront his past. Two stories emerge; memories from his childhood recurrently appear, fracturing the present where ex-lovers who have shaped his life confront him in surreal encounters. With time the two stories collide, past and present become one. The road leads in one direction, back to his childhood home and ultimately, his first and now final love; his mother. For where he began, he will now end and know himself for the first time.

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First-time mother Alice’s fragile world begins to unravel when post-partum psychosis transforms the isolation and uncertainty of new motherhood into a disorientating journey through fear, memory, and fractured reality.

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Nestled in the North Sea, between the Northern tip of Scotland and the coasts of Scandinavia, Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated in a place where the local community despise her, and whilst buried traumas resurface, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present. As an ill wind blows through, young girls from this fractured community begin to vanish. These missing children, her husband’s death and her own trauma become inextricably linked as Anna is haunted by unsettling flashbacks, forcing her to confront dark family secrets lurking in the shadows, before they can devour her daughter too. Official Selection FrightFest London 2026 - World premiere

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When Andre, a successful business man, unexpectedly reunites with his homeless childhood friend Robert, buried secrets from their boarding school days force him to confront the trauma he's tried to forget.

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In a near future in rural Britain, Mustafa cares for his deaf sister, Amna, spending their days together in their hidden, isolated home. One morning, anti-immigration vigilantes descend, tearing them apart and leaving each to navigate fear, loss, and the quiet brutality of a world shaped by far-right policies. Amna escapes and searches for her brother, moving through the fields with determination, only to witness a horrific event. A meditation on family, the unbreakable ties between siblings, and the devastating cycles of violence that fracture lives. Against the backdrop of systemic oppression, the film explores how hate divides families, how love endures, and how the human heart persists even in the face of destruction.

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An experimental animation that connects the history of colonial navigator Captain James Cook, his home region of the North York Moors (NYM), and the enclosure of common land to private land. The aim is to show how colonial practices of land seizure, British elites used a legal and rhetorical framework developed overseas to justify seizing common lands in England through the Enclosure Acts - including Captain Cook’s home of the NYM - a privatisation which still lingers today. Through animating on oak materials foraged in the NYM, the film aims to connect this legacy to the living landscape. This includes animation on foraged oak wood, leaves, 8mm developed in oak bark extract, and oak toned prints. The title CAPTAIN COOK IS DEAD refers to the popular proclamation, ‘The king is dead, long live the king!’ in that Cook’s legacy of colonialism lives on in our ever-privatised natural spaces.