Paws for Thought

Director: Rehana Rose

Year: 2018

An intimate portrait of those dealing with their dead, supported during the ritual of care after death by a team of women who are ‘giving death back to the people’. For nearly twenty years, a small team of women in Brighton have been changing the way people look after their dead. Supporting them to participate during the ritual of care after death and empowering all regardless of limited finances. Cara is passionate and believes in power to the people, challenging many of the accepted, traditional and often secretive ways of corporate funeral directors. This relatively unknown work is part of an emerging movement confronting the way death is approached in modern Britain. With extraordinary access, we follow three groups of people from the point of death of their loved one through to the ceremony.

Director: Sarah Lutton

Year: 2026

BFI Partner Funded Short Film

Director: Rob Curry, Tim Plester

Year: 2026

In a battle against time and technology, can Britain's greatest living folklorist find a home for his vast archive of irreplaceable audiovisual material?