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An aspiring writer dreams bigger than her nine-to-five job.

Chronicles the relationship between Sarah, a key worker in a women's safe house, and Amne, a new resident, from their first meeting to their final farewell.

A couple from London attempt to salvage their failing relationship on a walking holiday in the Mountains of Mourne, but things do not go as hoped. After all, isn't every love story a ghost story?

Chronicles of Humanity: Redemption

Interviews edited and combined with archive and personal photos as well as archive footage to make a unique documentary film starring local people.

Cellfish explores the life and work of internationally recognised, multi-disciplinary Israeli Artist Shelly Federman, through the eyes of her younger sister Tammy, an actress, singer and film maker.

WRESTLING WITH MY ROOTS is an observational documentary about tradition, rising above expectation, and pursuing your passion without losing your identity. Chris Royles is a Romani Gypsy and professional wrestler from rural Herefordshire in England. He hails from a traditional family of fighting men, but has chosen a slightly different path towards combat sports. Following Chris’s journey from soft-spoken everyman to Romani wrestling hero at one of his local shows, this film celebrates his close family ties, his independent wrestling company, and the individuality he shows while maintaining proud Romani roots.

‘Hold Tight’ explores the importance of Carnival across the UK and how it’s celebrations provide an important lifeline to heritage and identity for younger generations of the Black Caribbean diaspora in Britain. It is a journey into the feeling of belonging, through the rituals of Carnival attendance and the power of bass.

Under the sea a whale tries to help the smaller creatures who are struggling with plastic waste. On land a young girl seeks help to clear the sea in her area. But neither the girl nor the whale can succeed on their own.

Flowers, family, and friends.

A film in two segments – the first part a dying woman recalls events from her life, and the second an ambiguous and surreal journey about a man lost in the cosmos.

Shot in a creaky, wooden-floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of “Resistance”, the film initially appears to be a structuralist document of a philosophical discussion in-the-round.

A short film that follows Josh as he comes to terms with his sexuality while trying to repair the bonds broken along the way.

Two men hold hands in a public place, but even in 2018, something’s not quite right.

Where money is king in the spin of the circus, where anything can be brought even the souls of the innocent. Would you look away when they cry or act?

A little bear goes on an adventure with a giant dog on a rainy night's drive through the mountains.

Figure Study II is part of an ongoing series of works dealing with the human figure. The animation improvises around the idea of the human form consisting of a series of internal processes which ebb and flow according to the external stimuli it encounters.

Scottish film director James English spends a week living on the streets of Glasgow to investigate how homelessness affects those that live it and the people that dedicate their time to helping them.

Max is gender non-conforming and gives birth to River, who they are raising gender-neutral until River can express their own identity.

In the early 1970’s, 23 year old Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, drilled a hole in her head — that is she trepanned herself. Now 74, Amanda is a leader of the renaissance in scientific psychedelic research.

The story of the NHS.

A woman attempts to reach "the other side", with disastrous consequences.

A series of inner landscapes evoked through sound, voice and fleeting fragments of Super 8 film.

Discover the story behind the infamous Rivonia Trial, where Mandela and his co-defendants fought for the freedom of South Africa, in this new film. Directed by former high court judge Sir Nick Stadlen, the film follows the 10 leading opponents of apartheid and their lawyers and supporters through the trial. It is an inspiring story of immense courage and self-sacrifice on the part of a small group of multiracial idealists. Though the defendants were saved from the death penalty, eight of the ten were sentenced to life imprisonment, Mandela among them. When Mandela was released 27 years later, he had a vision of multiracial democracy for South Africa.

It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown pottery industry, yet this week they are interrupted by their 16mm camera toting grandson. This year's spring is one of moving, dancing, and gliding more softly and with greater awareness. Conceived as a ditty and presented with an orchestra of loved ones, Sneyd Green is a handmade exploration of positive and negative space in concert with past and present yearnings.

For fifteen weeks between May and August 2017, Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe travelled to all 2,563 Railway Stations in Britain, producing and publishing multiple videos every week online. A few months after they'd finished they then sat down to reflect upon the journey, talk about the railways and produce this .. the feature length Documentary. Contains new footage, that was not previously published in the daily videos. A huge thanks (as always) to our Kickstarter backers for making this happen!

Junkanoo Talk investigates the language of celebration through carnival. It employs the techniques of costume crafting particular to Junkanoo - a carnival of the Bahamas. The sound is produced on the body and takes the rhythms of Rake 'n' Scrape music, also particular to the Bahamas. James Baldwin is quoted, speaking of the complexities of being an African American living in France, along with the Bahamian Tourism Minister who speaks of appropriation and the body as a voice.

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and Depression. It aims to represent these ideas in an abstract but honest way - using CGI as a medium to create an impactful experience that will make the audience think about mental illness in a way they might not have before.

Seven years after the Incident, three townspeople are brought in for interrogation by the City. The secret they give up is more terrible than their captors could ever imagine...

Dancing Grass captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient indigenous grain, is central to the livelihood of smallholder farmers and may be called the 'cereal core' of Ethiopian national food identity. A local elder provides the commentary for the sequence of events that unfold in the homestead, fields and neighbourhood of the author's eldest brother and family: the cutting of the 'dancing grass'; the drying and stacking; the threshing and winnowing; then the sale of teff in the local market; off with a donkey to the mill; cooking enjera for family and guests; coffee drinking and blessing; and finally the Mesqel fire, an Orthodox Christian celebration at the end of the rainy season.

The film evokes stories and images from dissociative states, while drawing parallels to the research of chemist Humphry Davy (1788-1829) on the effects of laughing gas. Devised as a multi-layered audio-visual composition, the film merges past and present, oral history and sensory images, and a variety of analogue and digital processes.

The film is a compilation of short stories part fiction part fact based on the author’s life experiences and previous interactions in mental health institutions in the UK. The Boy character referred to in the voice over is on a journey through life. We glimpse into his experiences and relationships with his mother and father. The film is intended to resonate with our experiences of relationships, life and death. Footage has been shot on location in Liverpool and the nuclear bases in Scotland.

The struggle to pass the 1967 Abortion Act and its continued ramifications to the present day. Featuring never before broadcast interviews with women who had backstreet abortions, those in the medical profession on both sides of the debate, and the politicians and campaigners who were at the forefront of the law on illegal abortion being changed.

Sue Perkins travels to Chimp Haven in Louisiana to meet six female ex-laboratory chimpanzees starting their retirement and meeting a group of male chimps for the first time.

An intimate autobiographical film documenting the filmmaker' battle with the anxiety disorder body dysmorphia.

Loud, fearless and (un)typical girls: Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen Reddington (The Chefs), musicians and punk icons turned directors, serve up a fascinating documentary built on new interviews with the women who played instruments in punk bands in the 1970s. In accounts laced with wit, honesty and insight, pioneering players including the Adverts’ Gaye Black (bass), Palmolive from The Slits (drums), Shanne Bradley from The Nips (bass), Jane Munro from The Au Pairs (bass), Hester Smith and Rachel Bor from Dolly Mixture (drums and guitar), bassist Gina and guitarist Ana Da Silva from The Raincoats, as well as many others, we hear about acquiring instruments, learning to play, forming bands and getting gigs.

A short fillm poem depicting the inner reflections of a broody afternoon.

FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship, tackling topics about maturity and parenting in a comic way.

We Out Here: A LDN Story is a document of the people and places which have laid the foundations for London’s fertile jazz scene in 2018. It’s about the renaissance which jazz has experienced over the past few years. It’s also about friendship, community and the influences of the city that these musicians call home. The film tells the journey of these young, gifted players, many of whom have trained and come up together, and whose sounds are now becoming an integral part of London’s musical landscape – as well as representing the city around the UK and the rest of the world.

Stephen cant resist opening his present before Christmas, he has no idea what festive horror awaits him.

In the quiet heart of the New Forest, a group of addicts find the one place they can be themselves - Sunrise.

A series of epistolary films exchanged over the course of 2017 and 2018 between Macedonian experimental filmmaker Vladimir Najdovski and William Brown.

Through conversations with loved ones, a young Turkish artist confronts her fears regarding her country’s future, and the dilemma of staying or leaving home behind.

An untold tale of abandonment and dreams. J— dreams of a family where wild birds are his brothers and sisters and he can escape the urban chaos of London. He lives with his adopted dads in a loving home, but can’t forget his past and the violent emotions he feels towards the young mother who abandoned him. In times of anger and sadness, he turns to the piano and the music that allows his dreams to flourish.

The incredible story of Sally Noach, a Dutch Jewish carpet salesman who rescued hundreds of Jews from Vichy France by forging identification papers and arranging their escape. Equally intriguing is the controversy still surrounding Noach’s exploits: lingering rumours about espionage and black-market profiteering. Finally, with assistance from the filmmaker, researchers and living witnesses whose families he saved, Noach’s children attempt to solve the puzzle.

Featuring footage from every day at the gala, which was held from the 24th June to the 1st July, this 6 disc set features 17 locomotives in action throughout the 8 days

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrates 100 years of the RAF with colourful performers joining the event from across the globe.

There are many stories, funny, sad and poignant, and through these stories we get an insight into the history of the men and women who have driven the famous black cab.

Pitched between documentary and abstraction ‘Anne, Richard and Paul’ is a portrait of the experimental music and performance trio Bow Gamelan Ensemble, comprising archival footage, 16mm film and SD video.

Three characters search for meaning in the growth of an overlooked urban weed. The Narrator pursues the plant to find the elderly woman first seen picking it, yet as observations accumulate a shadow researcher emerges. Their methods entangle and the focus blurs. Is the Kyria’s knowledge being sought, or the Collector’s? And, other than the symbolic plant, do the other figures exist at all?

Harry attends an interview, full of optimism that he will walk out with the financial benefits that enable to him to live a sustainable life. But the cold bureaucracy, and the unsympathetic individuals behind it, prove impossible to navigate. To escape his horrific situation, Harry finds himself retreating into his imagination – a softer world, full of wool and crochet. Stitch is an animated short film which highlights the need for change in the way we treat those with illnesses and disabilities in the UK.

After BUTT is a new film by Ian Giles exploring the cultural and social legacy of BUTT magazine (2001-2011); a publication made by and for gay men, noted for its iconic pink pages and candid interviews.

Researched, filmed, and recorded on Visva-Bharati campus at Santiniketan, Sriniketan and surrounding areas of Birbhum, West Bengal, O Horizon stages moments from Rabindranath Tagore’s extensive environmental pedagogy as a series of portraits, moods, studies, and sketches that allude to what might be described as the outlines of a “Tagorean cosmopolitics”.

One woman's meditation journey, and the distractions along the way.

A short horror film in which a lahar, a violent molten pyroclastic flow also known as “wet concrete”, slowly consumes everything in its path, including the television screen.

This beautiful film shot on 35mm captures the ebb and flow of daily life in a small Scottish coastal town.

CIRCLE is a haunting portrait of a rape survivor, caught in the devious ploys of her family.

An essay film cinematically exploring a city as a machine; a space for the movement and circulation of people, cars and finance.