Lili is three. Lili is too small for many things. This however, will certainly not stop her from trying.
Lili is expecting a friend. And not just anyone. It’s her best friend, Molly! The joy of expectation, however, can be greater than the get-together itself. Two wills of iron and a limited selection of toys and biscuits can lead to conflict. But then there is always next time to look forward to.
Lili is three. Lili is too small for many things. This however, will certainly not stop her from trying.
Lili loves colours. Lili knows all the colours.
Lili is three. Lili is too small for many things. This however, will certainly not stop her from trying.
Lili loves food, but some food is better than others – and if you have to get through a whole lot of tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes and sausages before the dessert, well, then it is good that Lili's dog Bow-wow is hungry too. Because Lili loves dessert.
Rita is about to kick the bucket, but before she does she has one last job to do: drag her granddaughter out of the closet.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Thrill Strand - World premiere
Gemma wakes to find her house on fire. Trapped with her son, she dials 999. The operator who answers holds Gemma’s life in her hands.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Short Film Competition
The story of the footsoldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state.
Telluride Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Through a series of oral testimonies and carefully composed portraits, Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches explores how individuals and groups spend time in two distinctive public London locations.
Made by Esther Johnson as part of an Arts & Humanities Research Council project, this poetic documentary illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of General Gordon Square, Woolwich, and St Helier Open Space, Sutton.
Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the film incorporates contributions from a diverse range of visitors. These testimonies highlight themes such as the psychological feeling of being in a space, the rhythm and flow of visitors to a place, the importance of design for everyday street furniture and access to communal outdoor space.
The film acts like a stranger who joins you to ‘watch the world go by’, and to break the ice by starting a conversation with their fellow bench user.
Keeping Up With the Kashubians is an observational film taking place in Kashubia, a rural region of northern Poland. Through capturing the daily life – people at work, at home and on the streets – we see how, if at all, the local identity and language exist within modern-day Europe.
Exploring the intangibility of how one experiences and records the present through bodily sensations, referencing Marcel Proust’s notion of ‘Involuntary Memory’.
The residual, the soil and stains aren’t mere reconstruction of the past but an attempt to return to ritualise fragments of the absent. The desire to remember, embeds the past involuntarily within the present.
