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Personal stories from civilians, children, soldiers, doctors, the country’s elderly, journalists, religious leaders, and international volunteers - a handful of the millions of people whose lives have been turned upside-down by nine years (and counting) of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Talia loves nature. When she discovers the lady next door shares her curiosity for the wilderness, they strike up an unusual friendship.
The Duchess of Cornwall pours her passions into print, becoming guest editor of Country Life magazine, in this is a funny and charming portrait of our future Queen Consort at 75.
Concerned by his good friend Dr Henry Jekyll's recent behaviour, Gabriel Utterson is driven to uncover the identity of the mysterious and dangerous Mr. Hyde, to whom Jekyll is enthralled.
Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.
Disgruntled teenager Jess has an itch she just can't scratch and she's willing to do whatever it takes to be rid of it.
Grace Kelly. Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. Her onscreen beauty, self-confidence and mystery enchanted the world, and her serenity and poise as a princess defined grace. Precious Memories as the Hollywood Starlet who became Monaco's beloved Princess. Grace Kelly is one of the most admired women in the world. She is forever remembered as a standard of beauty, style and grace. Fitting for a woman who epitomised grace. Poised, Reserved, Supremely Elegant: in short, Royalty. Enjoy a look through Grace Kellys life and her journey in becoming a Princess through her Precious Memories.
You'll see as we dive into the mind and footage filmed by 'Johnny', an alcoholic who slowly witnesses the deterioration of his Mum, diagnosed with stomach cancer. Can he do it? Should he?
Damien John Kelly House, catering to men in recovery, opened to significant opposition in 2019. Within a short space of time, the abstinence-based recovery living centre had changed the hearts and minds of the local community. Its residents channel their recovery through activity, from team sports to photography, writing, filmmaking and other artistic pursuits. Among them is Sam. A short film about his issues with addiction is the entry point for this portrait of the centre and those who have benefited from it. It highlights how recovery is most effectively achieved through engagement and community interaction.
Alma walks timidly with friends on a lovely summer's day. As one of them warmly takes a selfie of the whole group, Alma looks at the phone screen and instantly realises their deepest secret may have just been revealed... A fierce anxiety attack engulfs Alma's reality, thrust into their mind's deepest, darkest corners. This ultimately forces Alma to face their authentic self, confronting what it truly means to be an outsider, a misfit, a weirdo. Alma embarks on a life-changing spiritual battle, coming to terms with who they are.
During another dull day connecting long distance intergalactic calls from a remote satellite, Michael receives a distress call. No one ever receives a distress call. They barely touch on distress calls during the induction day.
Explores Gruinard Island’s infamous past as a World War II biological weapons testing site that rendered it uninhabitable – and deadly – for decades.
Against the backdrop of the 1961 Swedish Grand Prix, East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner flees the Iron Curtain. Returning to the racetrack the following season with Suzuki, the driver wins the world championship and catapults the Japanese industrial giant into global domination of the motorcycle industry. Set where two worlds collide – the colour and freedom of the West contrasts the oppression and threat of Cold War East Germany.
The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El pan y la sal (The Bread and the Salt), a 2015 verbatim theatre piece compiled from the testimonies provided during the 2012 trial of Judge Baltasar Garzon, for investigating the forced disappearances of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. Juxtaposing the testimonies of the relatives of those who lost loved ones with references to Argentina’s and Chile’s recent dictatorships, this film explores issues around international law and forced disappearance - tracing a line between Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and Jorge Videla’s Military Junta: Garzón has investigated Argentine torturers and criminal perpetrators and had Pinochet arrested in London in 1998 for crimes against humanity.
Two deadbeat photocopier technicians discuss their recently deceased boss, who has been found dead the morning of. The conversation turns sour and some sinister and bizarre truths are revealed.
A generation ago, the world was captivated as motorsport’s biggest rivalry was born between two legends, Niki Lauda and James Hunt. Now, the story is continued by their sons, Freddie and Mathias, who prepare for a thrilling showdown on the iconic Donington circuit.
A group of vloggers are looking for the ultimate urban legend and soon discover the legend of Bloody Mary is very much real. Now, the group is stuck under her curse and will have to learn how to stop Bloody Mary once and for all before it's too late.
Unedited interviews from in front and behind the camera with the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison and Mark Strickson - his companion, Turlough.
In a neon-lit world where death is just a transition, a skilled hacker confronts his own values as he navigates a society of soul-traders.
More than 20,000 people are reported dead, air strikes are hitting towns and villages, artillery is pummelling positions of armed resistance – but this is not Ukraine, this is the world’s forgotten civil war, where thousands of twenty-somethings are risking death to fight against a military coup that has removed elected government and stolen what they see as their future.
Rehal and Arul are friends and flatmates. Rehal is in love with Arul, but the feelings are unreciprocated. The story follows the two one morning in their south London flat as they share breakfast and muse on how as queer people, they wish they could find acceptance within the wider queer community.
This special was filmed at the end of the Edinburgh Festival at Carnivore. Outside of the festival, this room is used for storage but I thought it looked pretty cool. This show is the culmination of doing hundreds of sets coming out of the pandemic and loving stand-up again after a longer break than l've ever taken in 17 years of doing stand up.
A murky night out leaves Anya questioning whether she was spiked and assaulted, struggling to piece together what happened to her and come to terms with her trauma.
Thousands of Hongkongers, still living in the shadow of the 2019 protests, are immigrating to the UK to forge a freer future. This film documents their struggle to break free from a homeland that is no longer welcoming, while holding on to the Hongkonger identity in which they find purpose. In exile, can the Hongkonger identity persevere, or is it destined to obscurity? Can they really find a place to call home?
Peter Moore, the murderer known as the 'man in black', has now served 25 years in prison. Back in 1995, he terrorised communities along the north Wales coastline, killing four men and allegedly attacking many more. By day he was a well-respected shopkeeper and cinema owner in Kinmel Bay, and by night he was a sadistic killer who seemed to target gay men. In this special edition of Dark Land, former chief constable Jackie Roberts returns to re-examine the hunt for the man who would go down in history as Wales’s worst serial killer. Moore is revealed as a man with a violent secret life, hiding in plain sight. Beneath the façade of a respectable businessman was a mind warped by a dysfunctional upbringing; a man who seized upon a climate of gay prejudice to embark upon a 20-year spree of savage attacks, confident his victims wouldn’t feel able to come forward to complain. The ultimate question is, could Moore have been stopped before he went on to kill and kill again?
Geoff, a man with an unusual compulsion to eat inedible objects, calls on the unorthodox services of backstreet practitioner Doctor Dora in order to cure his ailment.
This U.K.-based Paranormal investigation documentary features Matt Long and the South East Paranormal Team investigating the West Five Bar in Ealing, London, with special celebrity guest Mutya Buena of British girl band The Sugababes.
A woman lost on a trail makes a desperate call to an ex partner, just incase she never gets to say all she's desperate to say
Mim is a woman on the edge and is stuck as the maid of honour to her not-so-honourable 'best friend', Gemma. On the day of the wedding, Mim cannot wait to be finished with Gemma and has just been offered a dream job far away.
An comprehensive look at the life and music of Mark Linkous, a influential figure in the alternative music scene. Critically-acclaimed Linkous had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and alcohol addiction, paralysis, and debilitating depression that resulted in his eventual suicide. Mark's music was heralded by his peers and critics; a mix of delicate pop, discordant punk and melodic odyssey; it has been described as defiantly surrealist with all manner of references to smiling babies, organ music, birds, and celestial bodies. The film mines Marks life and music and navigates the sacrifices and highs and lows of his art.
Sliced Bread is a comedy short film in which we imagine what a world would look like if Sliced Bread had never been invented - and what would happen in 21st Century society if suddenly it was.
16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from his home in China to the foothills of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
The story of a hug. A boy’s journey across a surreal world to find his fallen giant.
Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men are prohibited.
Tensions come to a boil in a London studio flat when a queer couple move back in together for lockdown
Paris, 1900. Penniless writer Rodolfo believes that art is all he needs – until he meets Mimì, the lonely seamstress who lives upstairs. So begins a timeless love story that blooms, fades, and rekindles with the passing seasons. But while the couple’s friends, Marcello and Musetta passionately row and make up, a force greater than love threatens to overtake Rodolfo and Mimì. Richard Jones’s production evokes the vivid contrasts of fin de siècle Paris, from Bohemian apartments to glittering arcades, while Kevin John Edusei, Evelino Pidò and Paul Wynne Griffiths conduct an array of dazzling performers
A collaboration between filmmaker Ben Rivers and sculptor Céline Condorelli, with contributions by writer and artist Jay Bernard, After Work blurs boundaries between labour and leisure using nimble essayistic encounters that are as suggestive as they are concrete.
Rose awakes in an unknown house following a serious car accident with memory loss and no ability to walk. Her Mother and boyfriend are there to help her. Rose wants to piece together her life before the accident. All is not what it seems.
Born in the Sudetenland, a Czech-German border region, Adolf Hampel reflects on his story of flight, deportation and refuge at the end of the second world war. Now 86 years old, Adolf embarks on a sentimental journey to thank the family of the man who protected him and his family in a time of oppression.
An ambitious young king plots Myrlan’s bloody expansion but, with his eye turned from home, opportunity for a new regime is seized by a band of rebels.
Seventh Heaven is a two-hour show profiling Ronnie O'Sullivan's illustrious career from when he burst onto the scene in 1993, to his record-equalling seventh world title earlier this year.
Three emotional stories set in Nepal show how communities are already being impacted by flooding and drought, all made worse by the injustice of climate change.
Taylor is a 16-year-old schoolboy from London, living in a small flat with his single-parent mum. Lonely, frustrated and lacking direction in life, he finds himself striking up an unlikely friendship with the postman, Alex. After witnessing Alex expertly confront Taylor’s school bullies, Taylor persuades Alex to teach him how to box. But following an explosive misunderstanding between the two new friends, Taylor then sets out on a spiral of destruction, alienating the few supportive people he has in his life. Determined to turn a corner and make amends, Taylor summons up the courage to attend an LGBT boxing night at Alex's gym. To his relief, Alex is there waiting for him, their argument forgotten. Gradually, Taylor’s Mum sees her boy start to shine.
Sarah-Jane is a young aspiring jazz singer from Bournemouth who moves to London to embark on a music career. Not long in town, she falls for the handsome Airbeats, but also sinister music producer Russell-D, who represents a darker side to the music industry.
With his career failing, a vain YouTuber believes he can get famous making paranormal videos. But when a mysterious creature starts eating his crew, he must let go of his pride before it consumes them all.
The following Summer after her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana, Princess of Wales, began dating Dodi Al-Fayed. The relationship between the two is shrouded in mystery. Was she falling in love or was it all for show?
Huw Stephens presents an exciting selection of short films from emerging artists and film-makers from across the UK. Topics are fresh, varied and thought-provoking, including a behind-the-scenes look at a zoo closing for the night, an honest account of farming the land, and a powerful love letter from a son to a mother who has cancer. Expect to be moved and challenged by these short dramas, observations and dance, made by a new generation of storytellers. Yew; Echdo; King of the Pit; Two B or Not Two B; Lucky House; Everything Is Fine; The Jacket; Cages; It's Always Been; Mary Lost Her Battle; Between the Dog and the Wolf; From His Perspective
Janet and Liam are happily married until she stops talking to him. And everybody else. In an attempt to diagnose her loss of speech she begins seeing a psychiatrist who starts to probe at a secret buried in the depths of Janet's psyche, the revelation of which has profound and lasting implications not just for her but the entire family. Drew Hewitt's masterful play examines with wit, humour and searing honesty the complex ideas surrounding free will, love and the painful truths of existence.
At 12:20 pm, Diana and Dodi departed from the Ritz Paris hotel rear entrance, heading for Dodi's father's apartment in Rue Arsène Houssaye. By doing this, they avoid a swarm of over thirty photographers waiting in front of the hotel.
Remixing the collections of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Tiger Strike Red is an oneiric jaunt through an alternative art history that finds playful linkages between classical marble sculpture, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, representations of Judith’s beheading of Holofernes, AI art, and an 18th-century South Indian automaton depicting a tiger mauling a British colonial soldier.
For decades Hughie Green was a living legend of British TV, and one of the most powerful men in the business – hosting the star-making mega-hit show ‘Opportunity Knocks’ and changing the lives of countless ordinary people overnight. But it was his final act – a jaw-dropping surprise from beyond the grave – that would change everything.
In a bout of emotional distress, a young man leaves a voicemail for his estranged girlfriend, one that begins to unearth darker feelings as his thoughts descend upon him.
The International North West 200 is a dangerous motorsport event, held on a street circuit known as the Triangle, in which riders battle the circuit, the weather, their fellow riders and danger for ultimate glory.
Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.
When Philip invites his assistant's boyfriend, Harry, over for dinner under false pretences, an in-depth conversation on the nature of love leads to Philip revealing his true intentions and desires.
In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies, meaning ‘seal-folk’, are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form. Emerging when the time and tides are correct, seducing or being held captive by human lovers, the composite shape shifting water siren emerges from her underwater world to ours, casting her spell of seductive and violent dance. Is it love and desire or appetite and malice?
This CGI animation follows a self-driving police car in a desolate landscape. In dialogue with a built-in therapist, they contemplate the meaning of freedom and lament their uselessness. As their conversation ensues, it becomes increasingly clear in what kind of world our protagonist is living. Theta is part of Lawrence Lek's Sinofuturist cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of non-human life.
Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning plan for a shot at the big time. Henpecked common-law husband Craig Meehan seems to have an unhealthy obsession with his laptop. Borderline special needs uncle Michael Donovan just wants a bit of company and a couple of quid for some baccy. Stereotypical Yorkshire copper D.I. Radgitt faces a race against time to unravel the web of lies and find the missing girl, Shannon Matthews, aged 9. This is Shannon Matthews: The Musical, an irreverent, potty-mouthed, black comedy romp through one of the most bizarre news stories of this century. The production has been brought out from under the bed base by Yorkshire’s own Tuppence Ha’penny Theatre Company.
As he falls down the spiral of personal obsession; a delusional mycologist finds himself in the midst of seeking the unattainable. Morals won't play a role in his relentless pursuit of transforming his being into fungus.
Summer is coming. Low self-esteem and negative body image issues. What better idea to seek direct advice from your ideal self?