An astronaut blasts off for another world, leaving part of himself - his left arm - back home. After a doomed landing, his mind is conflicted...
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An astronaut blasts off for another world, leaving part of himself - his left arm - back home. After a doomed landing, his mind is conflicted...
Follows the life of young Erodo, growing up among the semi-nomadic Turkana of northern Kenya.
CIA analyst Sidney Porter is a man living two lives. One as a powerful operative of the agency's clandestine Special Activities Division. The other as an elusive, policy obsessed, former patriot whose fury at the widening gap between his government's policies and his own political ideals has him siphoning millions of dollars of the agency's money in order to fund his personal political agenda. As the very agency that employs him begins to investigate the missing funds, the walls start closing in. It's too late for Sidney to reverse course; he's come too far. He is now a political Robin Hood. He is his own Commander-In-Chief, and he's addicted to the influence he wields. Sid has to stay one step ahead of his colleagues and two steps ahead of his own demons as he becomes a nation of one.
Ireland, 1847. A destitute young widow desperate to save her dying son, must make a choice, but is the cost of survival worth the price of her humanity?
Jack, a struggling fisherman from a lonely seaside village, one night finds a velvet dress in the ocean that he believes will bring him luck. However, when a beautiful homeless girl steals the dress, they find that love can really turn your world upside down.
This documentary film follows the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, 19th-century English writer and a Noble Prize-winner. Patrick Hennessey travels to Lahore to reassess Kipling's adventures and their impact on his literature.
Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian 'hummus tragic'. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina. But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was hungry for more. But this war ha no soldiers, bullets or tanks. Just chickpeas and hummus. Make Hummus Not War is a humorous homage to the chickpea's most distinguished dish. But there's a personal story, how Graham became a hummus tragic, a father who served in Palestine during WW2 and two lovers in his life, one Syrian, one Jewish, with whom he shared a great culinary passion.
A duet for two men taken from STILL, a long-form piece of work choreographed by Nigel Charnock for Candoco Dance Company in 2009.“With every piece I make there is part of me in there, its always about relationship rather than relationships, and more so in this piece about the loss of that, about losing someone” Nigel Charnock.
Partially based on true events, director Roma Harvey shows how a chance encounter in Derry during the Troubles can have consequences decades later.
A primary school art teacher and his young pupil bond while exploring the forest together, but things change when they decide to go swimming in a pond.
Antonio Pappano conducts a full performance of the second opera in Richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen. During a storm, Sieglinde gives shelter to a wounded stranger. They find themselves drawn to each other. He is Siegmund, the twin from whom Sieglinde was separated in childhood. Unknown to them, their father is Wotan, the most powerful of the gods. Through Siegmund, Wotan hopes to retrieve a gold ring of ultimate power that he cannot take himself.
A spirited 7-year-old, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's, can't wait to make her Catholic Holy Communion. The only problem is - she's a Jew.
Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, Claudette’s Star depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a voice.
Ness is a Super-8 adaptation of the book by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. It concerns the strange, folkloric reverberations surrounding the ex-weapons testing facility, Orford Ness.
"This is the most self indulgent thing I have ever done', says Richard Herring as he bounds on to the familiar stage of the Leicester Square Theatre. And who are we to argue - for the guest on this week's show is none other than Richard himself. With a combination of swagger and poor camera tricks we will finally get to see what makes the mysterious Herring tick. This DVD is a document to the kindness of the 2000 contributors to our recent KickStarter campaign to film every episode of the 8th series of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. It's also a joke that has got out of hand. As well as the hour long special RHLSTP with Rich, there's a backstage tour of the Leicester Square Theatre, every backstage interview from series 7, and hidden somewhere amongst the rushes is a short video of Rich before the camera trickery was added. He doesn't look very well.
A woman and her baby are menaced by a stalker. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
The LSO’s Principal Guest Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas celebrated his 70th birthday in 2015 with a concert focusing on British and Russian music, but with a nod to his native USA. He’s joined by the sensational young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang in Gershwin’s popular Concerto. Michael Tilson Thomas gave the US premiere of Colin Matthews’ Hidden Variables, an LSO commission during Matthews’ time as an Associate Composer with the LSO.
A short silent film shot on 16mm, of an olive grove in the Peloponnese, Greece.
When Stefania falls pregnant, Jose becomes suspicious about the nature of the clearing work she's undertaking to help support the family. Paranoid that she's keeping something from him, he follows her. However, rather than reveal Stefania's secrets, Jose steps into his own nightmares and finds himself exploring his own guilt.
Parodies social media, advertising, children’s television programmes and fairy tales, subjects that appear frequently in Maclean’s work. The film borrows techniques global corporations use to sell well-being, youth and happiness by bombarding us with imagery and preying on our anxieties.
A short film teaser for the feature film Pikadero. Ane and Gorka travel to a sex hotel in the mountains in order to consummate their relationship. However, things are never as easy as they seem and they end up questioning the meaning of their fledgling relationship.
Following the death of his girlfriend, a young scientist harnesses the properties of a recently discovered meteorite that allows him to revisit his memories. As his obsession drives him towards self-destruction, he starts to believe in the impossibility of a new beginning.
A Very Dangerous Doctor explores one of the longest-running, most emotionally charged battles in British medical history. In one corner, a pioneering doctor who dared to accuse mothers of abusing their own children. In the other corner are the mothers who counter-claim that the doctor was the abuser; using his power so that he could research on the children to test his own medical theories. With unprecedented access to both sides of the story, this authored documentary, by Bafta award-winning film-maker Leo Regan, explores the controversy surrounding paediatrician Dr David Southall and a group of mothers, who he accused of abusing their children. Filmed over two years, Regan gets to the heart of the war between doctors and mothers and tries to find out who is telling the truth.
The Proposal is a romantic comedy about a couple finding truth, courage and love where they least expected it, underneath their dinner table.
Film-maker David Modell follows Labour MPs through an extraordinary six months in the life of their party, through the election and its aftermath, as the shocking result changes British politics in ways few of them predicted.
Entirely shot on a mobile phone, the film evolved from chance encounters in the streets of London: Sandrine, an attractive young woman on a mission to find a husband, Steve, a seasoned beggar, struggling with addiction and and Steve's girlfriend Precious, a poet. Blurring the confines between fact and fiction. the film raises questions about the relationship between filmed and filmmaker. The closer he gets to his subjects, the more the obstruction of his camera seems to distance him from them. Ultimately People... reveals a personal and humane space that only came into existence precisely because it had been filmed.
Why has Mr Christie’s body been stolen? Who stole it? Who really is Mr Yakamoto – a brilliant cartoonist, a genius scientist, or a psychopathic serial killer? Mrs Christie sets out on a quest to find her husband. Her journey ends deep in the lava tunnels of Iceland…
This documentary gets under the skin of the current party drugs of mephedrone, ketamine and GHB by following three young people in Leeds from the dancefloor to the morning after.
Award winning filmmaker Osca Humphreys follows the day-to-day life of the woman behind the most extraordinary success story of our time. With remarkable access this film takes a revealing and emotional look at how Susan has been coping with her new life as an international star and asks whether fame and fortune has actually made her happy. The film includes Susan in the studio recording her new album, travelling to Shanghai for a huge stadium performance and a meeting with record company boss Simon Cowell.
A TV movie by Ant Palmer
Paranormal investigators join forces with a medium and a Christian heavy metal band to destroy an evil clown.
Mussorgsky was inspired to compose his masterpiece Boris Godunov after reading Pushkin’s Shakespeare-inspired play of the same name. It features one of the most dramatically rewarding bass-baritone roles: a noble ruler who loves his children and his people, but whose thirst for power has led him to commit a terrible crime. Bryn Terfel is “a powerful new Boris” (The Observer) in Richard Jones’ new production of the original 1869 score. Antonio Pappano conducts an outstanding cast that also includes John Graham-Hall as the crafty Prince Shuisky and John Tomlinson as the vagabond monk Varlaam.
Former Special Forces soldier Ant Middleton invites pop star Liam Payne to take part in the journey - and interview - of a lifetime in Namibia.
Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man – armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of Nature, or the voice of its resilience?
A master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it, this short is for you.
85 minute documentary shot by Lasse Hoile over a period of 3 months
Off the coast of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal is a tiny 'brothel island' populated by women forced to sell their bodies to men who arrive by the boatload. Each of the women came to inhabit the 100m long and 10m wide piece of land for different reasons, whether through a sister, the need for money, or in search of love and affection, but for all of them it is a life tougher than they could have imagined. Deepening their troubles is the island's existence at the frontline of climate change, and with the increase of cyclones, floods and soil erosion the prospect of losing their homes, and the island itself, is closer than ever. Beautifully shot and subverting expectation, Bad Weather is a documentary that carves out a message of hope in extreme adversity.
JLS have gone from talent show hopefuls to one of the UK’s most successful boy bands, selling over six million records and winning five MOBOs and two Brits Awards. After five amazing years together they sadly announced they were parting and as a final farewell to fans, they are set to embark on a sell-out UK arena tour. This essential DVD invites fans to join the boys for an unforgettable final concert and emotional farewell to their fans. The explosive and slickly-choreographed final show will feature Marvin, Oritse, Aston and JB performing all their greatest hits including; Beat Again, She Makes Me Wanna, Everybody in Love, One Shot and their final ever single – Billion Lights. EXCLUSIVE EXTRAS Behind the Scenes Feature Goodbye Message from JLS
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing questions today. This is a look at his legacy and the imprints it has made on the generations that followed.
Upside down stop-frame images follow a path through Epping Forest on the edge of East London, revealing the beauty of a topsy-turvy forest.
Inside the Human Lab is a horror stop motion animation showing what goes on inside a vivisection lab.
Filmed in Netherlands and London this special commemorates 70 years since Anne Frank's death. With unique interviews with Anne's step sister, Eva Schloss and Gillian Walnes, a survivor from Auschwitz who now runs the Anne Frank Trust in the UK and Ronald Leopold, the Director of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In 1933, the Nazis rose to power. Five years later, in 1938, Eva Schloss remembers the Nazis marching on Austria and then she and her family fleeing and settling in Amsterdam the same year. They found they were in the same residential square as the Franks with their young daughter, Anne. Anne and Eva found a bond from the shared experience of being displaced by the Nazis.
A teenage girl tormented by the death of her parents, finds solace in strangers to deal with her spiralling grief.
In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the strange and hilarious world view of the fragile eccentric, Drako Zarharzar. A love story. Drako Oho Zaraharzar can remember modeling for Salvador Dali and hanging out with The Stones. But he can’t remember yesterday. Following a severe head injury, Drako Zaraharzar suffers from terrible memory loss, he can access memories from before his accident, but can’t imprint new ones. As he puts it, “the recording machine in my head doesn’t work”. Consequently, and as an antidote to depression he chose to live “completely in the now” according to the bizarre mottoes delivered to him whilst in a coma.
A documentary film about being transgender in St Petersburg in Russia, presented by Owl and Fox Fisher. This is the first specifically trans related documentary film on day to day trans life and the specific issues that trans women, trans men and non-binary people are facing in Russia. With special thanks to Jonny and all our contributors.
The Truth That Wasn't There is an award-winning documentary about three student filmmakers who cross the front-lines in the wake of civil war in Sri Lanka. In doing so they became the first independent journalists to visit the final battlegrounds. This is the story of what they found.
A suspenseful slice of short horror featuring Bethan Hanks as a babysitter unaware of the horror lurking in a dark house full of toys…
Defiant Wrestling returns home to Newcastle on Saturday, April 28th for a huge PPV event 'No Regrets'... featuring the No Regrets 30-man Rumble. WhatCulture Wrestling's Simon Miller has announced he will be making his professional wrestling debut in the No Regrets Rumble.
Designer and engineer Zoe Laughlin explores the world of material science, uncovering the innovations in manufacturing that are set to change the world we live in.
Bicep live at Printworks on November 23, 2018.
Set over a birthday weekend, close friends uncover truths about each other that will radically change their relationship forever.
"Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better. In spite of their differences in language and style, the film is mainly an attempt to imitate, or even to become, the other, which is doomed to failure. But the film is in fact the story of this collision" - Boris Lehman
When photographer Layla is haunted by dreams about a mysterious model, she seeks the help of Dr De Palma, who prescribes some very powerful medication, and her dreams become reality.
Annabelle, lead singer for the band Talegunner (Clear For Takeoff), is trying to be a success in show business. Annabelle meets a sleazy producer, Antonio, who promises an appearance on Fred Mulligan's TV show if she will go solo. Annabelle becomes infatuated with Antonio. He decides to take advantage of her. Jealous boyfriend, Nick, hires detective Candy West to find out if Antonio is on the level. Meanwhile, a visitor from another planet is captivated by the rock & roll. The Highs and Lows of Entertainment are explored in this fast-paced comedy.
The haunting of Cathnafola House
Same-sex behaviour has been reported in more than 1500 species and was observed by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. But traditional evolutionary theory can't explain the purpose of being gay, or why it might be an advantage. So what are the animals up to? This frank documentary shows pets and animals on farms in zoos, and in the wild, caught on camera indulging in same-sex behaviour.
Security Services officer Christian, confused and unsure of who he really is anymore, must come to terms with his own identity while on the hunt for a Russian agent.