A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
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A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
In the 1930s, the onset of puberty provokes alarm and confusion for a young girl, causing her Aunt to reflect on her own younger days at a village dance during the First World War.
Drama which follows a group of teenagers whose already difficult years of adolescence get massively complicated when one of them is involved in a mysterious car crash.
The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh mountain, as they were during the Second World War. Soon after Quentin is settled in North Wales admittedly more at home in a cave among his paintings than he is with other people he unwittingly sets in motion a series of events that wake up this sleepy, charming town. After mistaking local boy Dylan Hughes for an art history genius, Quentin finds himself in the middle of mayhem.
A real-time, single-location psychological thriller with the tension of a ticking bomb. Lenny Bray was once a national treasure - now he’s just a man in a mansion, hiding from headlines and haunted by whispers. But when a young man shows up at his door late one night—barefoot, bleeding, and carrying a story Lenny hoped was buried—everything unravels. Across one harrowing night, Lenny and his wife Maggie must confront a stranger’s explosive accusations—and their own complicity in a past steeped in power, silence, and manipulation. Darkly comic and emotionally raw, this is a story about guilt, truth, and what happens when survivors come knocking.
With every layer of paint, the room gets smaller. An old widower must come to terms with his grief so he can go on living for his son.
A crime documentary project gets hijacked by its subject.
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.
A mathematical researcher tries to solve an unproven theorem, when it ends up more difficult than anticipated he risks being eroded by obsession.
Set in an expensive tourist lodge in the forests of central India run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a satirical parody on Westerners visiting India, in search for their stereotypical notions of the country, replete with images of former Indian royalty, and relics of the British Raj. In turn the film was a commentary on social pretense and ecology.
A young singer on the verge of super-stardom, and the brink of a breakdown, must shake her demons before they derail her dreams and ruin the finale of her sellout tour.
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves her. Does Philip love his wife too? Ginny tells Gregory she's going to see her parents, when she's actually going to see Philip to break things off. Gregory, thinking to surprise her, gets there first, and the chaos begins.
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chevalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chevalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.
Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.
When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.
A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve into the mystery of Duchamp’s major work, the once-notorious Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, even) 1915-23.
A woman's psyche is explored as she is pushed beyond the limits of sanity.
Ryan is a popular member of his community. He’s charming, helping and a social butterfly but Ryan has a secret.
In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions.
Earlene arrives at Venice Beach after running away from an estranged lover, only to become fast friends with an Australian skater who is also lost. Together, they set out into the desert to find themselves.
In the heart of the Scottish highlands an ageing ghillie (hunter) conceals a dark secret from his wife, whose memory is failing due to dementia.
When a young, wealthy Australian crashes (literally) into their lives and whisks them off to Australia, Mandy's thinking wedding bells, Zak looks for his long lost relative Crocodile Dingle, Vic and Terry find someone new to fight over and even Butch finds romance in the most unexpected of places.
A man flirts with a woman with no arms at a 24/7 burger house, as she uses him to feed her. With each bite, their conversation takes an unexpected turn as the woman digs deeper into his subconscious with her questions.
Jan works at her father's old fashioned clothing shop but her life is about to change when singer Helen comes in to buy a suit.
Election Night 1979: Margaret Thatcher is about to come into power. A young black man is held on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife. Officers Karn and Wilby, racist to the core and high on the prospect of a Conservative Party victory, try to lure the suspect into a quick confession. But the night has just begun...Callous humiliation gives way to a barrage of sinister violence, leading to a devastating conclusion.Written by Barrie Keefe, who was behind the British classic The Long Good Friday, SUS is an emotionally charged and incredibly tense crime drama that serves as a powerful outcry against past institutional racism. But in the age of counter-terrorism SUS also begs the question: has history caught up with us?
Kunle is the conventional Nigerian son: respectful, dutiful, the pride of his family. However, during an intimate, traditional family gathering, he is forced to address a secret he has harbored, one that will undoubtedly have a profound, life-changing impact on his relationship with his family.
A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.
When a raiding party from the city of Atlantis kidnaps a man and his two daughters for slavery, he contrives to bring about the destruction of the ruling class utilizing the powers of the mysterious crystal child.
A woman arrives in an unknown country at daybreak. She appears to be running away from her past.
A short film exploring the imagery of medical and scientific experimentation.
A displaced Ukrainian actress suffers from PTSD and sleeps in her bathroom in a rented apartment in London. One day, she is haunted by an entity that resembles the movie star ZAZA.
Sonny, who has alcoholism, has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink.
A hunter who lives in the mountain knows the bears well. She apologizes to each bear every time she kills one, but she has to, for it is how she makes her living. One evening, she comes across a bear and when she is about to kill it, the bear speaks to her.
Lara is Palestinian and lives in London. She has everything she wants in her life: a husband, a son and a beautiful house in one of the best areas of the city. Nevertheless, her everyday life appears cold and grey, only brightened up by surreptitious sips of vodka. But one day, Inam, a sensual, resolute girl, knocks on her door. Lara seems to be transported back to her adolescence when she and Inam were close friends, and studied together in Ramallah. In Lara's astonished eyes we see a mixture of fear and desire towards the woman whom she had lost sight of. A deceptive tangle of memories which a trauma, a love affair and an experience with two Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem an re-surface. From a gripping, well structured emotional thriller that traces back their memories through recurrent flashbacks that take us to the West Bank in 1994, during the Intifada.
Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.
14-year-old Leigh lives with her neglectful father on the outskirts of Brighton. She’s a talented gymnast, training hard for her first competition. When an older half-brother appears at her house one night, Leigh’s lonely existence is altered.
The girl is assisted to her feet and has a bird's head placed on her. The girl is led to another figure who is wearing a horse's head. The bird's head is removed after the horse head and bird size each other up. The girl is the left by herself. She wanders into a fog bank and lands on the ground. She sees an angel. The angel frees her from her mortal bonds.
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…
Dreaded serial killer Peter Kurten voluntarily turns himself over to the authorities. A young lawyer, eager to prove Kurten's mental derangement, agrees to defend a man who terrorized Germany between 1929 and 1931. In studying the case and meeting with the intelligent, cold-blooded manipulator, the young idealist's values become warped.
Joshua visits his grandfather, a survivor of Auschwitz, five days before his tenth birthday. The elder recalls own childhood in polish countryside at his grandparents'. The grandma had many hens, which were real friends for him. As a young boy he was very sad when each Friday he had to choose one hen to be sacrificed as a Sabbath dinner. In his tenth birthday he received one hen as a gift. Now, as an old man, he gives the same gift to Joshua.
A battle-weary soldier must deliver to his dead friend's fiancée a farewell letter that was never written.
Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a room in the same house.
Elliot is a very hard working student who is already on a bursary at a public school, who is trying his best to get into Oxford. His mother, a night shift nurse, strangles Elliot with the pressures of not succeeding in life and urges him on to achieve the family's financial safety. Elliot is all too aware that a place at the most prestigious university comes with its pressures, both social and financial. One night, Elliot's mother goes off to work and leaves Elliot in charge of his sick little sister. However an invite from one of his school's richest, most popular girls proves too much to turn down. Elliot's choice sets him on a dark road in his quest for acceptance.
A late night mini-cab driver's feeling paranoid and twitchy in this contemporary London noir starring Asim Chaudhry. Is sleep deprivation playing tricks on Shakil, or has he been sold out?
Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of Hitchcock lookalikes, staggering in girth and exacting in attitude, in a quest to find the most accurate specimen.
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
A short film exploring how a father deals with raising his child in a foreign country after his wife's death.
Independent Welsh filmmaker Karl Francis uses amateur and professional actors to explore the community impact of the 1975 closure of the Ogilvie Colliery in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his family home. Critical of the National Coal Board and the trade unions, the film focuses on the fractious interactions between politicians and union leaders, teasing out the forces that are attempting to divide the community.
A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open.[
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
Misunderstood by his family, abandoned by the system, and desperate for respect, a dyslexic teenager becomes a drug dealer struggling to balance his addiction and debt to a local gangster while a rival threatens to destroy his world, driving him apart from the girl he loves and a daughter he's never known.
A violinist adopts a blind boy busker and dreams a cousin tries to kill him for his inheritance.
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.
Maria Ewing, as Dido, heads an outstanding cast of young British singers in a film adaptation of Henry Purcell’s much-loved tragic opera. With spectacular sets, this intense tale of heroism, passion, betrayal and ultimate tragedy is played out against a backdrop of fiery rituals, evil spells and pageantry.
The Cross is an emotional drama based on a true story about a cancer-stricken mother and her devoted daughter, sharing moments of love, courage, and reflection, capturing the unbreakable mother-child bond and the beauty of their journey.
A newly married couple, Leon and Nicola, have just moved into their new house. Leon invites his friend Ryan and her partner Nadya to their house. Ryan and Nadya notice that there is a serious issue with Nicolas behavior. A few days later, Nicola is alone at home, and an intruder enters her house.