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The last bookshop

Imagine a world without books... A young boy leaves behind his holographic entertainment and explores the abandoned old shop fronts outside. Down a forgotten alley he discovers the last ever bookshop. And inside, an ancient Shopkeeper, who has been waiting over 25 years for a customer... This 20 minute short film promotes the plight of independent bookshops through a fantastical fictional narrative. A timeless and atmospheric short tackling a pressing topical issue. Filmed on location in some Kent and London's beautiful, historic (and endangered) bookshops.

The last bookshop

NR 2013
The Khmer Smile

With his partner Francesca, Fabrice leaves Paris and flies off to Cambodia. He is going to touch the soil of his country of origin for the first time since he was 6 months old. When he was still a baby, Fabrice was adopted by French parents. It is as an adult that he finds himself again on Khmer soil - enthusiasm and curiosity push him on. Fabrice and Francesca find themselves on a rocky adventure, in which the ordinary melds with the extraordinary. Gradually, the events are going to reveal the existence of Fabrice's Khmer parents, birth parents without a face.

The Khmer Smile

NR N/A
The Tales of Hoffman

“With this lavish colour production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman, we are in more conventional, though never dull, territory. It is a handsome, well sung version which stands up well to the contemporary BBC 2 version that graced our screens a Christmas or two ago. (This, too, was a Christmas-time, prestige production). The production and adaptation is by Václav Kaslic, who has produced the opera many times on stage: here he makes imaginative use of the new medium to overcome difficulties inherent in some stories. He has a fine cast, including Jon Piso as a robust Hoffman[,] Sylvia Geszty, Thomas Tipton and Herold Kraus. The orchestra and chorus are from the Bavarian State Opera.” - Brian Baxter, for the BFI.

The Tales of Hoffman

NR 1970