Dreams and Desires - Family Ties

Director: Joanna Quinn

Year: 1993

Joanna Quinn’s concise history of the British Empire sees the British bulldog let off its leash before being brought to heel. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Restoration World premiere

Director: Joanna Quinn

Year: 1998

Sophie and Nick are surprised to learn that their recently deceased pet was no ordinary cat - Fred was a world-famous rock star! However, the pleasures and pressures of the high life proved too much for the star who fell ill with cat flu never to recover. But just how many lives does Fred have left...? This musical celebration featuring original songs is a treat for cat fans of all ages.

Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine

Year: 2028

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld. The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers. From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.