A meditation on landscape, and a celebration of the words of Scots poet and writer Nan Shepherd (1893–1981).
The film brings together elements of choreography (by Simone Kenyon), fragments of Shepherd's text and a polyvocal score by Hanna Tuulikki.
"To act is to begin something new" said Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest thinkers of all time. Arendt, who passed away in 1975, coined the concept of the ‘banality of evil’. This documentary attempts to explore the thinking processes and mechanisms of activism and risky thoughts, unravelling some of the reasons why Trump, Le Pen and others have captured people’s imaginations by reviving past ideologies.
Your guide in this adventurous journey is the alternative educator Nelly Ben Hayoun, who armed with puppets and dressed as Hannah Arendt, teases the greatest thinkers of our age whilst challenging them to an impossible pursuit; the search of the origins of knowledge. Featuring contributions from political activist Noam Chomsky, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Hannah Arendt’s students: Arjun Appadurai and Leon Botstein, nonsense-artist Novbumichi Tosa of Maywa Denki, robot maker Hiroshi Ishiguro, Japanese Living National Treasures: Bunraku puppeteer – Kanjuro Kiritake II and Noh Theatre master – Hisa Uzawa, former Lord Mayor of Sheffield Magid Magid, cyborg artist Neil Harbisson and more.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
A young black man from a working-class background is on a trajectory towards success when an encounter with the police jeopardises everything.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand
Single mother and immigrant Sonia Diaconescu works at a sheltered accommodation scheme. A resident of the scheme has made an official complaint against her, rousing the elderly community into a mob of angry and fearful citizens whose intolerance is palpable.
A job is just a job, but as with anything, time flies when you’re doing it with your best friend. And today’s no different. We follow Ty & Malcolm as they go about their daily routine. Just another day for two really good friends conducting business as usual.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2020
In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly-formed Women’s Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada - the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who's apparently obsessed with her.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand- World premiere
Tam gets the first tube home alone. In just a crop-top and high-waisted jeans he re-lives his Halloween night out.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere
Inspired by a real car crash and by political rupture in 1996, part Road movie, part film noir the film challenges genre conventions to propose a post rupture female led future.
Four passengers on a journey in a black Mercedes are unaware of their significance as state archetypes: a Police Commissioner, a Politician and a Right-wing Assassin. The fourth passenger is Yenge, the only female traveller, a woman silenced by the genre conventions of her role in the film. After a rupture Yenge’s noir voiceover begins to interrupt the male characters’ forced bravado as they are haunted by the Resistant Dead – the residual movements created from stories of people refusing to be forgotten. The film’s destination, The Gossip, addresses tales of female emancipation and empowerment, where a group of female activists transcend time, geographical borders and linguistic barriers to gather in a neutral nether-realm of conversation and mutual support.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Set in the idyllic spa town of Ilkley during its annual literary festival, this black comedy follows two hapless evangelicals tasked with killing the world’s most controversial secularist.
An intergenerational film that traverses the relationship between my grandmother (Raji) and my mother (Aruna), during challenging times. As Raji struggles to fight her hallucinatory demons, Aruna attempts to embrace her world.
