Project Detail

City Paradise

Synopsis

London is a big city, and for those new to it, it can sometimes seem quite scary. But Tomoko, who arrives from Japan to learn English, accidentally discovers a mysterious, secret city underground, inhabited by friendly little aliens and beautiful blossoms. After she's found it, everything changes.

Details

Year: 2005
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 5 mins, 55 secs
Format: 35mm, Digi Beta
Director: Gaelle Denis
Producer: Erika Forzy
Editor: Tony Fish
Screenwriter: Gaelle Denis
Director of Photography: Sarah Bartles Smith
Sound: Fabrice Gerardi
Music: Jocelyn Mienniel, Joanna Newsom
Principal cast: Hiroe Takei, Robert Stevenson

Genre

Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Passion Pictures

33-34 Rathbone Place
London W1T 1JN
UK

T+44 (0)207 323 9933

erika@passion-pictures.com

Sales Company

Sian Rees

sian@passion-pictures.com

Page updates

This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

Suggest amendments

Set in a typical East London high street during an atypical hot, dry, English summer. After the rain is a love story, between neighbours Lian and Adrian, who suffer from surreal compulsive obsessive disorders. Lian, a Chinese waitress, evaporates when she cries, only coming back with the rain; while Adrian, the laundry man, coughs feathers in times of anxiety. As their worlds and disorders collide, we watch Lian and Adrian’s initial suspicion and distaste of one another give way to understanding, friendship and love. Tonally, After the Rain is a surreal comedy, addressing themes of love, ecology, racism and ignorance.

Woman Director Drama

Tramp

Director: Philip James McGoldrick

Year: 2025

An emotionally charged sports drama following Grazyna "The Tramp" Jarzynowska, a British-Polish MMA fighter whose meteoric rise is abruptly halted by an unexpected pregnancy.

Sport Drama Action